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

Description: Zen and the Beat Way by Alan Watts Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book is an engaging introduction to Watts fascinating and enduring Zen teachings. Publisher Description Everything disappears into nothing at all, but out of that same nothing at all come all the new things, forever and ever. - Alan WattsWhen 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 Americas 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:The Beat Way of Life How the Beats lived an uncomplicated Zen life and despite being denigrated as worthless slackers, like Eastern thinkers, they actively pursued an arduous course of spiritual and psychological disciplineReturn to the Forest How the popular works of the writer Joseph Campbell influenced the earliest Beat traditions by advocating the internal search for individual truth over learned schools of thoughtThe Democratization of Buddhism How Buddhism is actually a religion of no-religion, that conveys the spiritual through the everyday and the ordinary and recognises no division between the twoThis book is an engaging introduction to Watts fascinating and enduring Zen teachings. Author Biography Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a former Episcopal priest, born in London in 1915. He came to the U.S. in the 1930s, where he would become a scholar of Eastern religions. He moved to San Francisco in 1951 where he began teaching Buddhist studies, and in 1956 began his popular radio show, Way Beyond the West. By the early 1960s, Alans radio talks aired nationally and the counterculture movement adopted him as a spiritual spokesperson. He went on to write more than twenty other books. He died in 1973. Details ISBN 480531706X ISBN-13 9784805317068 Title Zen and the Beat Way Author Alan Watts Format Hardcover Year 2024 Pages 144 Publisher Tuttle Publishing GE_Item_ID:161561674; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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