Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969New World Library, 8 Şub 2011 - 256 sayfa Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies. But he is also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions, as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture. In this compilation of controversial lectures that Watts delivered at American universities throughout the sixties, he challenges readers to reevaluate Western culture's most hallowed constructs. Watts treads the familiar ground of interpreting Eastern traditions, but he also covers new territory, exploring the counterculture's basis in the ancient tribal and shamanic cultures of Asia, Siberia, and the Americas. In the process, he addresses some of the era's most important questions: What is the nature of reality? How does an individual's relationship to society affect this reality? Filled with Watts's playful, provocative style, the talks show the remarkable scope of a philosopher at his prime, exploring and defining the sixties counterculture as only Alan Watts could. |
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19631965 | 33 |
Mysticism and Morality | 35 |
The Images of Man 49 65 | 49 |
The Relevance of Oriental Philosophy | 65 |
Religion and Sexuality | 81 |
Philosophy of Nature | 123 |
Swimming Headless | 139 |
Zen Bones | 151 |
Divine Alchemy | 169 |
Democracy in the Kingdom of Heaven | 191 |
Not What Should Be but What Is | 209 |
What Is Reality? | 227 |
About the Author | 245 |
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Sayfa 26 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Sayfa 28 - Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Sayfa 10 - The difference between the present on the one hand and the past and the future on the other hand is the same as the difference between being and not being.