Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2017 0:02:11 GMT -8
Alan Watts is a personal favorite of mine. I don't agree with 100% of what he brings, but there is a maddening clarity to most of Alan's material. He's an adherent to many Zen Buddhism principles, but speaks on the Tao and Confucianism.
Try this one first... "Kindly let me help you, or you'll drown, said the monkey, putting the fish safely up a tree."
If you get something out of the first, try the next.
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
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