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Alan W. Watts (1915–1973)

Autor/a de The Way of Zen

193+ obres 14,612 Membres 166 Ressenyes 52 preferits

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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 mostra'n més 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). mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: From 'Man in Nature'.

Obres de Alan W. Watts

The Way of Zen (1957) 2,528 exemplars
The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951) 1,703 exemplars
Tao: The Watercourse Way (1975) 892 exemplars
Nature, Man and Woman (1958) 548 exemplars
Become What You Are (1955) 384 exemplars
Psychotherapy East and West (1961) 380 exemplars
Does It Matter? (1970) 358 exemplars
In My Own Way: An Autobiography (1972) 298 exemplars
Myth and Ritual in Christianity (1954) 233 exemplars
Two Hands of God (1963) 186 exemplars
Out of Your Mind (2017) 169 exemplars
The Supreme Identity (1950) 160 exemplars
What Is Tao? (2000) 149 exemplars
What Is Zen? (2000) 115 exemplars
The Essential Alan Watts (1977) 101 exemplars
Beat Zen, square Zen, and Zen (1959) 77 exemplars
Om: Creative Meditations (1980) 74 exemplars
Talking Zen (1994) 72 exemplars
Zen and the Beat Way (1997) 60 exemplars
Meditation (1974) 47 exemplars
The Art of Contemplation (1972) 40 exemplars
The essence of Alan Watts (1977) 40 exemplars
Three (1961) 32 exemplars
God (The Essence of Alan Watts) (1974) 25 exemplars
Alan Watts Teaches Meditation (1992) 22 exemplars
Play to Live (1982) 18 exemplars
Death (1975) 16 exemplars
Nueve meditaciones (1998) 15 exemplars
Nonsense (2008) 11 exemplars
La via dello zen (2013) 8 exemplars
Learning the Human Game (1998) 7 exemplars
Zen (1948) 7 exemplars
Zen Clues (1996) 5 exemplars
The "Deep-in" View (1964) 3 exemplars
Tao Y Zen (2005) 3 exemplars
Joyeuse cosmologie. (1971) 3 exemplars
L'Envers du néant (1978) 3 exemplars
Kosmisches Drama. (1987) 3 exemplars
Las Formas Del Zen (1976) 3 exemplars
Petrokiller 2 exemplars
Four Ways to the Center (2015) 2 exemplars
ALAN WATTS LIVE-AUDIO (1991) 2 exemplars
Divine Madness (1985) 2 exemplars
What Is Reality (1989) 2 exemplars
Udha zen 2 exemplars
LA SUPREMA IDENTIDAD (1978) 2 exemplars
Reality, Art and Illusion (2013) 2 exemplars
Saa selleks, mis sa oled (2010) 2 exemplars
Het boek 2 exemplars
Thusness (2014) 2 exemplars
Amour et connaissance (2015) 2 exemplars
Vivir El Presente (2003) 2 exemplars
Suyun Yolu Tao 1 exemplars
How to Do It: Meditation (1974) 1 exemplars
The Love of Wisdom I (1973) 1 exemplars
EL ESPIRITU DEL ZEN 1 exemplars
Il taoismo. La via è la meta. (2015) 1 exemplars
Zen-veien (1973) 1 exemplars
Zen -buddismen 1 exemplars
HI Isegreti del Tao 1 exemplars
Theologia mystica 1 exemplars
Le Livre de la sagesse (1974) 1 exemplars
Epävarmuuden viisaus (2013) 1 exemplars
O budismo Zen (2000) 1 exemplars
Zen a way of Life (1962) 1 exemplars
The Spectrum of Love (1973) 1 exemplars
Smell of Burnt Almonds (1973) 1 exemplars
The Art of Suffering (#12034) (1976) 1 exemplars
Facts of Eastern Philosophy (1976) 1 exemplars
Who Am I? (1973) 1 exemplars
Comparative Philosophy (1973) 1 exemplars
Thiền Đạo 1 exemplars
What God is Dead? 1 exemplars
Images of Man 1 exemplars
The Mood of Zen 1 exemplars
Living Free 1 exemplars
On Being God 1 exemplars
The Joker 1 exemplars
Mahayana Buddhism 1 exemplars
Death and Rebirth 1 exemplars
On Being God 1 exemplars
Memoires: 1915-1965 (1977) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library) (1992) — Col·laborador — 1,459 exemplars
The Wisdom of the Serpent (1963) — Pròleg — 132 exemplars
Alpha: The Myths of Creation (1963) — Pròleg — 85 exemplars
Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism (1907) — Introducció — 82 exemplars
Vedanta for Modern Man (1951) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions47 exemplars
Philosophy now : an introductory reader (1972) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
SF Inventing the Future (1972) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
Watts, Alan W.
Nom oficial
Watts, Alan Wilson
Data de naixement
1915-01-06
Data de defunció
1973-11-16
Lloc d'enterrament
Cremated with ashes buried half at Druid Heights, Marin County, California, USA and half at Green Gulch Monastery. Muir Beach, California, USA
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
UK
Lloc de naixement
Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Lloc de defunció
Druid Heights, Marin County, California, USA
Llocs de residència
New York, New York, USA
Sausalito, California, USA
London, England, UK
Educació
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (M.Th.)
The King's School, Canterbury
Professions
philosopher
writer
speaker
priest
philosophical entertainer
Organitzacions
American Academy of Asian Studies
KPFA
Biografia breu
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.… (més)
 
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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 | Hi ha 28 ressenyes més | 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 | Hi ha 30 ressenyes més | Jan 29, 2024 |

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Obres
193
També de
10
Membres
14,612
Popularitat
#1,575
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
166
ISBN
484
Llengües
16
Preferit
52

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