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About the machinations of gurus, mutual entanglement and a cosmic game of hide-and-seek.
To come to your senses, as Alan Watts often said, sometimes you have to go out of your mind. Alan Watts, the famous author, former Anglican priest and self-proclaimed spiritual entertainer, perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, has inspired countless wisdom seekers with the spiritual and philosophical gems of India, China and Japan.
In the book Out of Mind, you can delve into the six most attractive teachings of this legendary thinker about transcending the limits of the rational mind, expanding consciousness, and feeling gratitude for the so-called. i. the great game unfolding all around us. The book contains the most important extracts from Alan Watts’ world-class lectures and thus represents an inspiring new resource that captures the very essence of this genius teacher in action.
For those of you who already know Watts and those who don’t, this book takes you on a journey through his favorite paths out of the trap of common awareness, including:
FOREWORD BY MARK WATTS
In the 1950s, my father gained a considerable following through public radio talks on KPFA in Berkeley, California. These speeches were soon followed by the bestseller Pot Zena and the pioneering Psychotherapy of the East and the West. In his speeches, he often suggested that Buddhism should be understood as a type of psychotherapy that is not comparable to Western religions. He was of the opinion that ecological awareness and mystical experience are basically expressions of the same form of conscious experience. In the early 1960s, his radio speeches and ground-breaking books pushed him into the college lecture circuit, and for the next twelve years he gave large public lectures and more private seminars to groups across the United States. Many of these have been recorded and collected.
Almost ten years ago, after going through dozens of seminars that my father recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I collected the recordings – which complemented each other wonderfully – of six memorable events, from which the audio collection Out of Mind was created . These are extraordinary lectures with titles such as: “The Nature of Consciousness”, “The Web of Life”, “Inevitable Ecstasy”, “The World as It Is”, “The World as Self” and “The World as Emptiness”.
Out of Mind was an instant success, and over the years has become one of Alan Watts’ most listened to series of all time, attracting listeners from all over the world.
The series of talks began with overarching themes relating to essential questions of shared perception, comparative cosmology, and the role of man in the natural world. In these speeches, Father convincingly demonstrated that most common sense in the Western world is based on outdated science and the dominant cultural inventions of the nineteenth century. Always ready to confront the status quo, he scrutinized the assumptions that many took for granted, proving how out of touch with modern knowledge the “everyday reality” of the Western world is.
As his work developed further, he also offered solutions, both psychological and cosmological. Based on the Buddhist worldview that he increasingly explored in these seminars, he offered a fresh and compelling view of the universe in which we are both inseparable and welcome participants, but also expressions of “whole action.” In this highly reciprocal worldview, we not only find our place in and as part of nature, but also the tools to share this “mind-shifting” view of life with others.
Although I understood the power of these speeches, I was not prepared for what began to happen when they saw the light of day. Not only were they popular with many Sounds True audio listeners, the collection began to attract a new, younger audience, and a few years after its release, quotes and videos from the collection began to appear regularly on social media. Creative videos made from short clips have reached millions of views (the last time we counted 20 million), and the biggest payoff for continuing my father’s work is watching how these ideas are adopted in the lives of many people and how they continue to develop. and are taking on new forms.
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“Alan Watts’s sanity of awareness is something truly special. This book is a fine companion to his best works and an indication of why I chose him as both my philosophical and literary mentor. I highly recommend it as an excellent entry point into the wonderful world of Alan Watts.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Among spiritual seekers of many generations, Alan Watts is known as the most accessible—and entertaining—exponent of Eastern philosophy in the West. From the age of 16, when he wrote an article for the Buddhist Lodge magazine in London, Watts gained millions of readers and listeners through his books, recordings, radio broadcasts and public speeches.
He has written more than 25 books, including such classics as The Book: The Taboo That Makes You Unknown and This Is It: And Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience. After he left the American Academy of Asian Studies, in the 1960s and 1970s, years of the last century, he continued to write and travel and during this time recorded hundreds of interviews, lectures, seminars and two television series. He has written for Elle, Playboy, Redbook, and Chicago Review, and counterculture advocates have appropriated him as their spiritual icon.
BOOK INFORMATION
Language: Slovenian
No. pages: 222
Dimensions: 14.0 x 22.0 cm
Binding: Paperback
Release year: 2018
Author: OSHO
ISBN: 9789617033403
| Weight | 0,340 kg |
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