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    Talking Zen

    Reflections on Mind, Myth, and the Magic of Life

    Author Alan Watts
    Edited by Mark Watts
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    $19.95 US
    Shambhala
    5"W x 6.96"H x 0.62"D   | 7 oz | 64 per carton
    On sale Jun 21, 2022 | 208 Pages | 9781645470960
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    Insightful and entertaining essays spanning 40 years of lectures by Alan Watts on Zen, Taoism, psychedelics, and comparative philosophy.

    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. 
    “You don’t even need to be particularly interested in Asian philosophies or religions to derive insights from the breadth and depth of Alan’s wisdom. One will walk away from this book having learned something new, something unexpected.”—Buddhistdoor Global
    ALAN WATTS (1915–1973) was a renowned lecturer and the author of nearly thirty books, including The Way of Zen and The Book.
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    Insightful and entertaining essays spanning 40 years of lectures by Alan Watts on Zen, Taoism, psychedelics, and comparative philosophy.

    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. 

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    “You don’t even need to be particularly interested in Asian philosophies or religions to derive insights from the breadth and depth of Alan’s wisdom. One will walk away from this book having learned something new, something unexpected.”—Buddhistdoor Global

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    ALAN WATTS (1915–1973) was a renowned lecturer and the author of nearly thirty books, including The Way of Zen and The Book.
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