Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 2011-10-19. Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ("a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest" —Deepak Chopra) ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics. Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown is Watts’s meditation on the art of feeling out and following the watercourse way of nature, known in Chinese as the Tao. Embracing a form of contemplative meditation that allows us to stop analyzing our experiences and start living in to them, the book explores themes such as the natural world, established religion, race relations, karma and reincarnation, astrology and tantric yoga, the nature of ecstasy, and much more.
The Book
The Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 1989-08-28. The Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revelatory primer on what it means to be human, from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life" (Deepak Chopra)—and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the “outside” world with hostility, and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation of the natural world. To help us understand that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe, Watts has crafted a revelatory primer on what it means to be human—and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.
Play to Live
Play to Live - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Play to Live write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 1982. Play to Live available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Nature, Man and Woman
Nature, Man and Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature, Man and Woman write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 2012-07-11. Nature, Man and Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From “perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West—and an author who ‘had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable’” (Los Angeles Times)—a guide that draws on Chinese Taoism to reexamine humanity’s place in the natural world and the relation between body and spirit. Western thought and culture have coalesced around a series of constructed ideas—that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled; that the mind is somehow superior to the body; that all sexuality entails a seduction—that in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emotion, and our loneliness and reluctance to love. Here, Watts fundamentally challenges these assumptions, drawing on the precepts of Taoism to present an alternative vision of man and the universe—one in which the distinctions between self and other, spirit and matter give way to a more holistic way of seeing.
Tao
Tao - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tao write by Alan Watts. This book was released on 1977-01-12. Tao available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, "a lucid discussion of Taoism and the Chinese language [that's] profound, reflective, and enlightening." —Boston Globe According to Deepak Chopra, "Watts was a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest." Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts. "Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, . . . Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit."—Los Angeles Times
