The Philosophies of Asia: Edited Transcripts by Alan Watts (Love of Wisdom)
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Overview: The following chapters constitute the first volume in a collection of literary editions of Alan Watts’s classic public lectures. As his son, I spent many hours listening to my father speak, and I often recorded his talks. Years after his death, in 1973,1 had the opportunity to spend time reviewing all of his tapes, and for this book I have selected some of his most spirited and insightful lectures on Oriental philosophy. The Philosophies of Asia is a journey into the spirit of Eastern religious thought. It is at once an introduction and an overview of the primary branches of Oriental philosophy. Most significantly, it is a revelation of the common thread of experience that weaves its way through thousands of years of traditional Asian methods of "teaching the unreachable."
Many of us might ask, "So, why is Eastern thought important today? What is our connection to such foreign and ancient ways of knowing?" Alan Watts answers these questions eloquently in "The Relevance of Oriental Philosophy." This is a powerful public lecture, in which he deals frankly with religion as it is usually practiced in the West and answers important questions about philosophy in general and religious experiences in particular. To Watts the essence of all true religion is the mystical experience, or what is sometimes called God consciousness or cosmic consciousness. He is, however, critical of religious institutions in the West that function primarily as "societies of the saved," whose primary purpose seems to be to distinguish its members from those of the "not-saved."
Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy
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