The Dream Of Life - Alan Watts - English Captions

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[Alan Watts:] If you awaken from this illusion

and you understand that black implies white

self implies other

life implies death

or shall I say death implies life

you can feel yourself.

Not as a stranger in the world.

Not as something here on probation.

Not as something that has arrived here by fluke.

But you can begin to feel your own existence

as absolutely fundamental.

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I'm not trying to sell you on this idea

in the sense of converting you to it.

I want you to play with it.

I want you to think of its possiblities.

I'm not trying to prove it

I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about

So then...

Let's suppose that you were able every night,

to dream any dream you wanted to dream.

And that you could for example have the power

within one night to dream seventy five years of time.

Or any length of time you wanted to have.

And you would naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams,

you would fulfill all your wishes.

You would have every kind of pleasure.

And after several nights

of seventy five years of total pleasure each,

you would say "Well that was pretty great!"

"But now let's - let's have a surprise".

"Let's have a dream which isn't under control".

"Where something is going to happen to me

but I don't what it's going to be."

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And you would dig that

And come out of that you'd say

"Wow that was a close shave wasn't it?"

Then you would get more and more adventurous

and you would make further and further gambles

to what you would dream.

Finally you would dream where you are now.

You would dream the dream of living the life

that you are actually living today.

That would be within the infinite multiplicity

of choices that you would have.

Of playing that you weren't God.

Because the whole nature of the God in you

according to this idea, is to play that he's not.

So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally

the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense,

but God in the sense of being the self.

The deep down basics, whatever there is.

And you're all that.

Only your pretending your not.

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