"Everything disappears into nothing at all, but out of that same nothing at all come all the new things, forever and ever." —Alan Watts
When Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums, his views on Zen Buddhism echoed the sentiments of the Beat Generation, who found in Zen a way of life unencumbered by the limits of "square" society. And it was the philosopher Alan Watts who first wrote and spoke about Zen and Eastern culture in terms accessible to mainstream Western audiences. Watts was an engaging speaker and an icon of America's Beat and Counterculture movements who named among his friends Aldous Huxley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Cage, and Joseph Campbell.
Watts' teachings during an era of turmoil and political strife are as timely today as they were over 50 years ago. This is a collection of fascinating essays from Alan Watts. Deluxe Hardcover.
