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2:07:59
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Alan Watts - Eastern and Western Zen II
a three part seminar tracing zen from its buddhist and taoist roots through early chinese masters to its direct pointing at ordinary suchness.

45:07
audio
I Think
a lecture on zhuangzi's taoist philosophy, covering the value of uselessness, relativism, wu wei, and the eternal present moment.




28:13
video
Alan Watts-the Silent Mind-kqed-1959
a 1959 kqed lecture from alan watts' eastern wisdom and modern life series, using the chinese character guan and the image of a heron watching water to explain meditation as quieti