a talk on the purposelessness of nature and human life, using a zen death poem, birdsong, and the parable of an ashtray to argue for trusting oneself rather than seeking meaning or

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

a 1960 kpfa berkeley radio talk in which alan watts argues that the search for life's meaning collapses into a delighted embrace of nonsense, play, and significance found only in t