Talking Zen
  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781645470960
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $40.00

Talking Zen

Reflections on Mind, Myth, and the Magic of Life

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Insightful and entertaining essays spanning 40 years of lectures by Alan Watts on Zen, Taoism, psychedelics, and comparative philosophy.

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. 
  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781645470960
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $40.00
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Alan Watts

Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker who was best known for his expertise in Eastern philosophies including Zen Buddhism and Taoism. 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.

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