Alan Watts

Out of Your Mind (eBook, ePUB)

Tricksters, Interdependence and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Out of Your Mind brings readers, for the first time, six of this legendary thinker's most engaging teachings on how to break through the limits of the rational mind.

Offering answers to generations of spiritual seekers, Alan Watts is the voice for all who search for an understanding of their identity and role in the world.

For those both new and familiar with Watts, this book invites us to delve into his favourite pathways out of the trap of conventional awareness: discover art of the "controlled accident" - what happens when you stop taking your life so seriously and start enjoying it with complete sincerity.
Embrace chaos to discover your deepest purpose.

How do we come to believe "the myth of myself" - that we are skin-encapsulated egos separate from the world around us-and how to transcend that illusion?
Find the miracle that occurs when we stop taking life so seriously.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780285644090
• Artikelnr.: 50865325

Autorenporträt

Alan Watts (1915-1973) For spiritual seekers of many generations, Alan Watts earned a reputation as one of the most accessible-and entertaining-interpreters of Eastern philosophy in the West. Beginning at age 16, when he wrote an article for the journal of the Buddhist Lodge in London, Watts would develop an audience of millions who were enriched through his books, recordings, radio broadcasts, and public talks. In all, Alan Watts wrote more than 25 books, including such classics as The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are and This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience.