英国哲学家晚年的一段演讲：如果钱不是问题，你最想干什么？

哲思君：提出标题“如果钱不是问题，你最想做什么”这样的问题的时候大家可能都会明白思索“人生苦短，做你想做”这样的道理。按照人生经历不足百年的长度来讲，大多数人都是在三十几岁到四十岁（时间的长度不能绝对地说明人生的宽度和阅历，也有人活了一辈子也不会出现这个阶段）这样的时间段会生出这样的疑惑：我这辈子到底想要什么？拼了半辈子的命，放佛活的一直都不是自己，一直在为追求金钱、地位、权利这样事物表象的东西而努力。而当这些表象不再是你生活中迫切需要的时候，“人生意义”这样触及本质的问题才会逐渐浮现出来。

康德说“所谓痛苦，就是被迫离开原地”。这个阶段的我们内心很痛苦，因为我们的思想需要离开舒适的位置去追寻有些虚无缥缈的形而上。很遗憾的是，即使想到这些问题也很难有人想透彻，大多数哲学家也如此。

想象这么一个情景：自己躺在病床上奄奄一息，想到自己马上离开这个世界，不免感叹：一辈子追求了太多物质，在乎太多外在，却一样都带不走也留不下，如果更关注精神和内心或许我会更坦然离开，然而一切都晚了，然后含泪闭上双目。思考死亡、练习死亡，确实有助于我们找到焦虑、迷茫的原因。

这段视频本身没有说出什么关于人生的深刻言论，只是哲学家Alan Watts晚年的肺腑之言，Alan一生潜心禅道，他于1951年在《心之道》一书中警告过读者，现代人产生幸福感的心理机制过分依赖于大脑、依赖于对感官的剥削，而这会形成一个恶性循环：“它必须要么生产出越来越多的欢乐，要么就垮台。”Alan如果活到60年后的今天，就会看到越来越多的人的精力正在（或者极度容易）被各种各样的事物牵扯。

附上Alan Watts英文简介

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in theSan Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote morethan 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not just a religion. Like Aldous Huxley before him, he explored human consciousness in the essay, 'The New Alchemy' (1958), and in the book, The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. His legacy has been kept alive by his son, Mark Watts, and by many of his recorded talks and lectures that have found new life on the Internet. According to the critic Erik Davis, his 'writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity.'