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 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

a seminar lecture tracing how music, art, cuisine, and religion evolve from simplicity into escalating refinement through competitive rivalry, illustrated at length by g.i. gurdjie

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

an audio recording in which alan watts teaches practical meditation techniques including breathing, chanting, and listening exercises, framing meditation as effortless presence in

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 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 lecture on taoist intuition and acting without choosing, illustrated with zen stories and the yijing's use in decision making.

a nine part alan watts lecture series moving from the limits of language and the myth of the separate self through theories of nature, technological control, images of god, and the

a lecture on how thought and perception construct the world we take to be objectively given, followed by a survey of meditation methods for seeing past that construction.

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 two part alan watts seminar pairing a lecture on japanese aesthetics and zen materialism with a guided meditation program on stilling inner chatter.

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

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.

a lecture in which alan watts argues that the ordinary sense of "i" is a hallucination and that the real self includes its whole environment, so genuine change comes not by effort