Prompt Title: Allan Watts - The game of hide and seek

Human: Summarize the following in 5 bullet points. Title: "(3) Alan Watts - THe game of hide and seek - YouTube" Transcript: "so then here's the drama my metaphysics that will be perfectly frank with you ah that there is the central self you can call it God you can call it anything you like and it's all of us it's playing all the parts of all beings whatsoever everywhere and anywhere and it's playing the game of hide and seek with itself it gets lost it gets involved in the forest out adventures but in the end it always wakes up and comes back to itself and when you are ready to wake up you're going to wake up and if you're not ready you're going to stay pretending that you're just a little poor little me and since you're all here and engaged in this sort of inquiry and listening to this sort of lecture I assume that you're all on the process of waking up or else you're teasing yourselves with some kind of flirtation with waking up which you're not serious about but I assume here maybe you are not serious that sincere that you are ready to wake up so then when you're in the way of waking up and finding out who you really are you meet a character called a guru as the Hindus say this word the teacher the awakener and what is the function of a guru he's the man who looks at you in the eye and says oh come of it I know who you are you know you come to the guru and say sir I have a problem I'm unhappy and I want to get one up on the universe so I want to become enlightened I want spiritual wisdom ah the Guru looks at you and says who are you you know Sri Ramana Maharshi that great Hindu sage of modern times people used to come to him and say master who was I on my last incarnation as if that mattered and he would say who is asking the question you look at you and say basically go right down there you're looking at me you're looking out and you're unaware of what's behind your eyes go back in and find out who you are where the question comes from why you ask and if you looked at a photograph of that man I have a gorgeous photograph of it and you look in those I walk by it every time I go out of the front door and I look at those eyes and the human looking laughs that says oh come off it Shiva I recognize you when you come to my door and you say I'm so-and-so I say haha what the funny way God has come on today there all sorts of tricks of course that gurus play they say well we're going to put you through the mill and the reason they do that is simply that you won't wake up until you feel you've paid a price for it in other words the sense of guilt that one has or the sense of anxiety is simply the way one experiences keeping the game of disguise going on you see that supposing you say I feel guilty Christianity makes you feel guilty for existing but somehow the very fact that you exist is in the front you are a fallen human being I remember as a child when we went to the services of the church on Good Friday they gave us each a colored postcard with Jesus crucified on it and it said underneath this have I done for thee what do is thou for me you know you fell off you nail that man to the cross because you eat steak you have crucified Christ cause we kill the bull after all you depend on it misra it's the same mystery and what are you going to do about that this have I done for thee what do you start for me feel awful that you just exist at all but that sense that sense of guilt is the veil across the sanctuary don't shoot down come in in order to you know in all mysteries when you're going to be initiated the somebody saying I don't you come in you've got to fulfill this requirement of this requirement of this requirement of this requirement then we'll let you in and so you go you you go through the mill why because this is you're saying to yourself I won't wake up until I feel I deserve it I won't wake up until I've made it difficult for me to wake up so III invent for myself an elaborate system of delaying my waking up I put myself through this test in that Testament I feel it's been sufficiently arduous then I may at last admit to myself who I really am and draw aside the veil and realize that after all when all is said and done I am that I am which is the name of God and when it comes to that's really rather funny it's a in Zen when you attain Satori nothing has left you at that moment but to have a good laugh but naturally all masters Zen masters yoga masters every kind of master puts up a barrier and says to you listen to plays your own game you know we say anybody who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined because you when you go to a psychiatrist you define yourself as somebody ought to have his head examined same way the Zen masters say anybody who studies in or comes to his then master ought to be given 30 blows with a stick because he was stupid enough to close the question that he had a problem but you're the problem you you put yourself in the situation so it's a question fundamental do you define yourself as a victim of the world or as the world you can define yourself you see if you identify you with what you call the voluntary system of the nerves and say only that's me and that's really a rather limited amount of my total performance what I do voluntarily then you've defined yourself as the victim in the game and so you are able to feel that life was a trap something else whether it was God or whether it was fate or whether it was the big mechanism the system imposed this on you and you can say poor little me but you can eat equally well and was just as much this dusta fication define yourself not only as what you do voluntarily but also what you do involuntarily that's you do do you reach your heart or does it just happen to you and if you define yourself as the works then nobody is imposing on you you're not a victim you're doing it because you can't explain how you do it in words because words are too comfy and it take too long say you get bored with it but actually then you can say with with gusto I am responsible for this life whether comedy or tragedy I did it and it seems to me that that is a basis for behavior and going on which is more fundamentally joyous and profitable and great than defining ourselves as miserable victims or sinners or what have you out of your mind now continues with the next lecture from the nature of consciousness lecture series you"

ChatGPT:

1. Alan Watts discusses the idea of a central self, which plays all the parts of all beings and is playing the game of hide and seek with itself.
2. He suggests that when one is ready to wake up and find out who they really are, they may meet a guru who helps them on their path.
3. Gurus may put individuals through tests to help them pay a price for waking up and realizing their true self.
4. Watts suggests that individuals can define themselves as either victims of the world or as the world itself, and that defining oneself as responsible for one's own life can lead to more joyous behavior.
5. This lecture is part of a series on the nature of consciousness.