Few people have communicated difficult ideas with as much clarity as Alan Watts.
He is known today for the work he did to popularize Zen concepts in the west. Through his books and his recorded lectures, he touched on almost every major contradiction in life.
His signature teaching — and he applied it to almost every part of existence — was that there is no end or destination. Watts knew that the point was ultimately to be where you are and experience things as they are here and now rather than in some romanticized past or future.
He continually stressed how little understanding we actually have of reality and its contents, and he was often careful not to make things more complicated than they needed to be.
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He is known today for the work he did to popularize Zen concepts in the west. Through his books and his recorded lectures, he touched on almost every major contradiction in life.
His signature teaching — and he applied it to almost every part of existence — was that there is no end or destination. Watts knew that the point was ultimately to be where you are and experience things as they are here and now rather than in some romanticized past or future.
He continually stressed how little understanding we actually have of reality and its contents, and he was often careful not to make things more complicated than they needed to be.
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