Click here for Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv5CL7C4Tp8 Below is a well thought out response from a poster named Dogan K. He touches up on the key elements of what Watts said in the video. I think a lot of you might find it helpful. "Lovely video. I would like to share my interpretation of what you have asked here... To understand "What I want basically is what you want, but I don't know what you want...surprise me.". He then says "but that's the kinship between 'I and thou'". If you read up on I-it and I-thou, you find out this definition... ------ "The "It" of I-It refers to the world of experience and sensation. I-It describes entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set (e.g., he, she or any other objective entity defined by what makes it measurably different from other entities). It can be said that "I" have as many distinct and different relationships with each "It" as there are "It"s in one's life. Fundamentally, "It" refers to the world as we experience it." By contrast, the word pair I-Thou describes the world of relations. This is the "I" that does not objectify any "It" but rather acknowledges a living relationship. I-Thou relationships are sustained in the spirit and mind of an "I" for however long the feeling or idea of relationship is the dominant mode of perception. -------- So this is he means when he says "What I want.. basically is what you want".... because your decision is just as important and accepted as his, because he's relating to you rather than being objective to you; just like empathy with a mother to their baby. When he says "you don't know yourself, because you never can".. he means that you can't GENUINLY understand....anything you decide comes from your "ego" and can't be trusted to have your best interest. What he means by "i don't know" is that it symbolises any situation where your have let up control of yourself, not motivated by self interest"....and your "ego" won't now cloud your judgement,A "Hintergedanken" - which is something which you know deep down, way at the back of your mind, that you don’t want to admit...is also another thing which can help understand this...only once you are truly honest with yourself can you make honest actions or thoughts. So by acknowledging this, you have quote "cease to cling to yourself and voluntarily let up control"... once you do this then you can truly find peace within yourself and have much more clarity to your situations. One quick example would be...if you had an argument with your wife and a friend asked you 'why did she get angry'? Would it be more rationale to ask your wife first rather than explain to the best of your knowledge...The friend will see the mistrust in your explanation because your ego has missed the underlying issues that you have chosen to ignore. Saying "i don't know" is the same as "letting go of the way it was perceived by you which is what you base your choices on" and "finding out the what really happened and making a choice with all people in mind" or you could say its like this "stop making excuses to why I didn't achieve what I set out" and "finding the underlining or fundamental reason that's stopping me". This is what is also meant by The godhead is never the object of its own knowledge, just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, life doesn't illumine itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself. "I don't know". ...when you reach this stage, you can separate your decisions from how it makes you feel, which then makes you more connected with the "now" and whats really going on. This is when you become desireless, meaning "you have no motive, unbiased, sitting-on-the-fence"...and by being like this, you're working with the energy, not against it, you can make the best decisions with the best outcomes because the decision can now be "trusted". ....finally, just want to add more understanding to the "godhead" reference....ultimately we can never truly know because you are trying to find out about the your mind, with your mind....you can never know more than what you know because you are limited to all that is only known to your mind. So you need to find the one in you that knows that you know lol..a bit of a wacky statement but it's one of the most important things to understand....this is the why it's all about "letting go, and going with the flow".. ;)"

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