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Alan W. Watts (1915–1973)

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Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a renowned lecturer and the author of nearly thirty books, including The Way of Zen and The Book. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western visa mer Theological Seminary and served as an Episcopal priest before leaving the ministry in 1950 to move to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies (now the California Institute of Integral Studies). visa färre
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Verk av Alan W. Watts

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Death (1975) 16 exemplar
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Zen Clues (1996) 5 exemplar
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Thusness (2014) 2 exemplar
Amour et connaissance (2015) 2 exemplar
Vivir El Presente (2003) 2 exemplar
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The Love of Wisdom I (1973) 1 exemplar
Zen-veien (1973) 1 exemplar
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Theologia mystica 1 exemplar
Le Livre de la sagesse (1974) 1 exemplar
Epävarmuuden viisaus (2013) 1 exemplar
O budismo Zen (2000) 1 exemplar
Zen a way of Life (1962) 1 exemplar
The Spectrum of Love (1973) 1 exemplar
Smell of Burnt Almonds (1973) 1 exemplar
Facts of Eastern Philosophy (1976) 1 exemplar
Who Am I? (1973) 1 exemplar
Comparative Philosophy (1973) 1 exemplar
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What God is Dead? 1 exemplar
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On Being God 1 exemplar
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Vedertaget namn
Watts, Alan W.
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Watts, Alan Wilson
Födelsedag
1915-01-06
Avled
1973-11-16
Begravningsplats
Cremated with ashes buried half at Druid Heights, Marin County, California, USA and half at Green Gulch Monastery. Muir Beach, California, USA
Kön
male
Nationalitet
UK
Födelseort
Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Dödsort
Druid Heights, Marin County, California, USA
Bostadsorter
New York, New York, USA
Sausalito, California, USA
London, England, UK
Utbildning
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (M.Th.)
The King's School, Canterbury
Yrken
philosopher
writer
speaker
priest
philosophical entertainer
Organisationer
American Academy of Asian Studies
KPFA
Kort biografi
A prolific author and speaker, Alan Watts was one of the first to interpret Eastern wisdom for a Western audience. Born outside London in 1915, he discovered the nearby Buddhist Lodge at a young age. After moving to the United States in 1938, Alan became an Episcopal priest for a time, and then relocated to Millbrook, New York, where he wrote his pivotal book The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety. In 1951 he moved to San Francisco where he began teaching Buddhist studies, and in 1956 began his popular radio show, “Way Beyond the West.” By the early sixties, Alan's radio talks aired nationally and the counterculture movement adopted him as a spiritual spokesperson. He wrote and traveled regularly until his passing in 1973.

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The philosopher and scholar probes the concepts underlying meditation as it applies to a number of Eastern religions including Taoism, Buddhism and the Krishna sect of Hinduism.

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker, who held both a Master's in Theology and a Doctorate of Divinity. Famous for his research on comparative religion, he was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote over 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, the meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness. In his books he relates his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religion and philosophy.… (mer)
 
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petervanbeveren | Mar 11, 2024 |
Quick Review: Finished this book with my heart racing and my mind feeling as if the universe were expanding into infinity and my self was riding it, knowing exactly my part in the whole. I'll never see the world the same way again.
 
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CADesertReader | 28 andra recensioner | Mar 8, 2024 |
In recent years, I've slowly transitioned from someone who was apathetic (if not a bit antagonistic) towards religion in my younger years to a more complicated place. I still wouldn't call myself a believer in any sense, but maybe it's a fact of aging that you notice how certain religious ideas are just *right* in a way that their secular equivalents just can't match. I think the last 10 or so years in the West have presented lots of challenges to the Good Ole Fashioned Liberal Mindset (GOFLM) that I and many of my ilk had previously ascribed to, as much as we may have denied that affiliation. At some point, humanity will have to come to terms with the fact that we can't know everything, and that actually, we shouldn't. I think the greatest block that the religious mindset sets out for this kind of person is that there are some insurmountable limits on life and society, and no matter how much "progress" we have, we won't over come them.
The Zen tradition offers lots of interesting ideas to someone caught at this intellectual crossroads. Whereas other religions might try to scare or threaten people into accepting their version of the limits on progress, Zen has no such aspirations. It encourages not only submission to the limits, but a kind of ecstatic appreciation of the beauty that comes from realizing the pitiful extent of which our attempts to control the world actually goes. The GOFLM has brought some freedom for some oppressed people, and has liberated the modern mind from much of the pointless self-flagellation that people in the past used to subject themselves to simply for being different. This "liberation" however has also done much to bound us up in ropes of our own weaving - we are so "conscious" of what we think is making us tick, and so beholden to the manipulative cries to "be ourselves" that we don't even realize that we are obsessing over a phantom.
Zen teaches us to stop spreading our ego out into the diaphanous wraith that tuggings of the world are constants trying to turn us into. When you clear the air of the smog of the past and the haze of the future, you realize that we've all become prisoners of time. I can't imagine what the writers and thinkers that formulated Zen a thousand years ago would think of the way the world has become even more obsessed with time, where so much is built upon clock-ins and clock-outs, chiming alarms, projections and analysis. Zen calls on us to recognize not only that we've become prisoners of time, but also that the prison is completely of our own making, and that with some reflection, it just might be possible to stroll right out of the cell without anyone to stop you.
This line of thinking is, of course, at odds with the reality of how our world is set up in 2023. One thing that makes this book special is the extensive space that Watts spends explaining how the precursors of Zen influenced it, especially Daoism. I remember reading the Dao De Jing in high school and feeling conflicted about a part where Lao Zi talks about how one should deal with an invading army. Lay down your arms, it says, don't resist. The Dao is moving and it is pointless to fight against it. This can feel like the kind of fatalism that comes packed into so many traditions of religious thought, a passivity anathema to the modern mind which is told that it is capable of anything. And yet to fight back is to propagate the violence that is counter to the goal that people actually want: peace. Zen might say that the injustices of the world today, which would seem to be a huge barrier to the kind of liberation from suffering that is its goal, are the result of everyone simply doing too much. To fight against what you see as wrong is also doing too much, just as those who are committing the wrongdoing are doing too much. The idea of a struggle is merely another endless chain of contingency, reliant to its core on false concepts of past and future that are lashing us to the wheel of suffering.
One cool thing about Zen that Watts devotes a whole chapter to is that unlike other religions, to be into the aesthetics of Zen is effectively to be into Zen itself. To ponder a work of a Zen master is to lean towards satori, to ape the Zen lifestyle is to be its most genuine practitioner. Thus, the Zen tradition again sets itself apart from other religious traditions that through ideas of conversion or faith merely bind themselves up in the cage of identity that brings us so much pain.
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hdeanfreemanjr | 30 andra recensioner | Jan 29, 2024 |

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#1,574
Betyg
4.0
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166
ISBN
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16
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