In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Ali Akbar Khan, the sarod player,
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Zen is basically Taoism—the water-course way of life—and
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
David Hunter, who was introduced to me by Hilde Elsberg, is one of the pioneers in a movement—originating from many different sources—that has come to be known by the awkward name of Sensory Awareness.
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
was in this spirit that we invited such visitors to the Academy as D. T. Suzuki, Swami Ramdas (a bubbling bhaktiyogi), G. P. Malalasekera, the Bikkhu Pannananda from Thailand, the Zen master Asahina Sogen from Kamakura, the Thera (Elder) Dharmawara from Cambodia, and Ruth Sasaki, who entranced the whole student body with her formal and definitive l
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When Christians go to church they leave their bodies at the door. The priest-at-large idea was too
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Thus on my escape from the suburban dormitory culture I found Roger Somers, Elsa Gidlow, Maud Oakes, James Broughton, and Charlotte Selver right beside me. So it was that I found a new self, fleeing to Roger’s pad in the Tamalpais hills, where we could strip to the waist, bang on drums, dance, and chant through most of the night, or accompanying Ch
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The Joyous Cosmology,
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But, on the whole, formal games are a way of getting together with other people without ever meeting them. Whether they be intellectual games like chess or brawny games like wrestling, I see no point in finding my identity through competition with others. I regard others who excel in sports, arts, or sciences as my own admired delegates or limbs, w
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This Is It, and which happened in a dream when I was