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Zen and the Beat Way: (Zen Teachings of Alan Watts)

Zen and the Beat Way: (Zen Teachings of Alan Watts)

Watts, Alan

Hardcover

BuddhismMeditation

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 480531706X
ISBN13: 9784805317068
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Everything disappears into nothing at all, but out of that same nothing at all come all the new things, forever and ever. --Alan Watts

When Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums, his views on Zen Buddhism echoed the sentiments of the Beat Generation, who found in Zen a way of life unencumbered by the limits of square society. And it was the philosopher Alan Watts who first wrote and spoke about Zen and Eastern culture in terms accessible to mainstream Western audiences. Watts was an engaging speaker and an icon of America's Beat and Counterculture movements who named among his friends Aldous Huxley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Cage, and Joseph Campbell.

Through his popular radio series Way Beyond the West, Alan Watts presented the practical side of Zen, which he described as a cure for education and culture. By the early sixties, his radio programs were renowned for their synthesis of Eastern wisdom and everyday life.

Watts' teachings during an era of turmoil and political strife are as timely today as they were over 50 years ago. The fascinating essays in this collection include:

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