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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 seminar talk contrasting christian and hindu cosmology, tracing the fall, the incarnation, and the double bind of guilt and grace, and closing with the symbolism of the christian

alan watts explores music, art and love as forms of communication that carry no information yet convey everything, moving from bach and mozart through hindu raga to the zen tale of

the opening part of a talk in which alan watts defines mythological language and introduces the hindu idea of brahma as the one self playing hide and seek through every form.

a reading of upanishadic and bhagavad gita passages on aum, the self, and the created universe, without commentary.

a full length, three session alan watts seminar recording on the myths of a divine king and a mechanical universe, social institutions as convention, and accepting death as a way o

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 alan watts wfmu lecture series arguing that hindu and buddhist practice seeks liberation from time rather than life, then extending that insight into an anecdote about a

a spoken reading of upanishadic and bhagavad gita passages on om, the self, and the creation of the universe, given without commentary.