Book
Talking Zen : reflections on mind, myth, and the magic of life
Publication Information
Boulder, CO : Shambhala, 2022.
Physical Description
x, 198 pages ; 18 cm
Summary
"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"--
Contents
- Introduction / by Mark Watts
- Picture Without a Frame
- The Psychology of Acceptance: The Reconciliation of the Opposites in Eastern Thought and in Analytical Psychology
- Mythological Motifs in Modern Science
- Time and Convention: Five Broadcasts
- Biting an Iron Bull
- Taoist Ways
- Swimming Headless
- Zen Tales
- Zen Bones
- Notes.