a lecture to psychologists on metaphysics arguing that opposites such as positive and negative coincide as one, and that existence is best understood as playful and musical rather

a short recording of alan watts telling a zen story about a student who cannot act naturally, followed by a whimsical poem titled strange prayers that celebrates spontaneous, child

a talk by alan watts arguing that life is fundamentally playful and spontaneous rather than a serious journey toward some future payoff.

alan watts discusses wu wei, the taoist principle of not forcing action, and the related concept of li, or organic pattern, drawing on chinese poetry and the japanese aesthetic of

alan watts explores zen spontaneity as the controlled accident, tracing mushin and wu-wei through swordsmanship, tea ceremony, ceramics, and the democratization of japanese art by