john steele's kpfk radio talk on memory, the kali yuga, and how temporal density shapes consciousness through the lens of eastern philosophy and buddhist concepts of vasana

alan watts opens a seminar talk in matsue, japan by recounting how childhood encounters with chinese and japanese art and lafcadio hearn's writing led him from anglican confirmatio

a seminar lecture surveying buddhism's roots in hindu cosmology, the split between theravada and mahayana schools, and nagarjuna's dialectical method for dismantling conceptual cli

a nine part radio series in which alan watts traces buddhism from its hindu roots through the four noble truths and zen dialogue to the huayan vision of a fully realized world that

a lecture on japanese pure land buddhism, contrasting jiriki (self power) and tariki (other power) through the worship of amitabha and stories of the myokonin saints.

a three part seminar tracing zen from its buddhist and taoist roots through early chinese masters to its direct pointing at ordinary suchness.

the complete first eastern and western zen radio series, six talks moving from taoist roots in lao tzu and zhuangzi through chinese and japanese aesthetics and the nature of zen mi

alan watts explains riji muge and jiji muge, the huayan buddhist principles of unity within particularity and universal interpenetration, using indra's net from the avatamsaka sutr

a kpfk los angeles broadcast in which watts argues, against kenneth rexroth, that ecstasy is a byproduct of insight rather than its goal.

a lecture using the thousand armed bodhisattva avalokiteshvara as a lens on new york city, examining how complex systems run without central control and why the ego cannot really a

a fourteen hour compilation from the alan watts audio archives spanning the myth of the machine, the web of life, death, vedanta, buddhism, and hindu cosmology.

a twelve part survey seminar in which alan watts introduces hindu, buddhist, taoist, and zen philosophy to a western audience, tracing the illusion of the separate self from ecolog

a two part wfmu lecture on carl jung, arguing that good and evil rest on an underlying unity and that eastern disciplines like yoga and buddhism function as skillful means for seei

a lecture on meditation using the chinese character for quiet observation to contrast linear, abstract thought with direct sensory experience of the world.

an audiobook reading of watts's book the way of zen, narrated by ralph blum and interwoven with recordings of watts himself, tracing zen's taoist and buddhist roots through to its

a tantric yoga seminar linking male female symbolism to memory, resonance, and the balance of attachment and detachment.

a six part kpfa radio series in which alan watts moves from chinese cosmology and the yijing through buddhist doctrine and mysticism to joseph campbell's shamanic forest and a saus

a seminar talk in which alan watts explains vajrayana buddhism, covering mantra, tantric art, and the unity of opposites through the poetry of saraha.

a compiled alan watts audio program that moves from his reflections on wonder and faith into the lecture images of god and a set of zen tales drawn from his japan seminars.