Talking Zen
Author | : Alan Watts |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780834844537 |
ISBN-13 | : 0834844532 |
Rating | : 4/5 (532 Downloads) |
Download or read book Talking Zen written by Alan Watts and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful and entertaining essays spanning 40 years of lectures by Alan Watts on Zen, Taoism, psychedelics, and comparative philosophy. Alan Watts's essays and talks range widely through psychology, art, religion, and politics, but always come home to the Zen core. For those familiar with Alan Watts’s style of presentation, the wonderful, memorable, and prophetic style of his voice is captured in this volume. Talking Zen puts on display Watts’s ability to explore the very subtle philosophies, those common across traditions and those unique to Zen, in ordinary and accessible language. These lectures paved the way for the rise of Zen in the West.