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Digital Alan Watts Greatest Hits Collection

A carefully curated collection of Alan Watts wisdom.

Digital Alan Watts Greatest Hits Collection

Bus or Tram

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12.05.20

By Laura Prives

The old Limerick that says, “Damn! For it certainly seems that I‘m a creature who moves in determinate grooves. I’m not even a bus I’m a tram”, is usually applied to the problem of fate and free will. It is equally applicable to another problem says Alan Watts which is the problem of searching for … Continued

Digital Alan Watts Greatest Hits Collection

Way Beyond the West

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12.05.20

By Laura Prives

The English word “way” is the nearest translation perhaps that we can make of the Chinese word Tao, meaning the way of nature or the way things go. 

Digital Alan Watts Greatest Hits Collection

Reconciliation of Opposites

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12.05.20

By Laura Prives

Watts points out that so many things that seem at one level to be opposed to each other, are at another level mutually necessary, including life and death.

Digital Alan Watts Greatest Hits Collection

Insight and Ecstasy

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12.05.20

By Laura Prives

This talk begins with Alan Watts commenting on a book review show he heard on KPFA hosted by Kenneth Rexroth that looked at what could be called a cult of ecstasy among poets and thinkers of the day.

Digital Alan Watts Greatest Hits Collection

Fundamentals of Buddhism

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12.05.20

By Laura Prives

A talk on the influence of Eastern philosophy on Western culture, broadcast at KPFA in 1960.

Digital Alan Watts Greatest Hits Collection

Levels of Magnification

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12.04.20

By Laura Prives

We can never change things until we first accept them.

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