• You're It!

  • On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found
  • By: Alan Watts
  • Narrated by: Alan Watts
  • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (3,746 ratings)

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Life is the ultimate game of hide and seek... and the good news is that you're it! With the combination of playful irreverence and penetrating insight that made him a legend in Western philosophy, Alan Watts investigates the surprisingly liberating concept of "the universe as play" found at the heart of Hinduism, Zen, and other wisdom traditions.

Carefully selected by his son and archivist Mark Watts, You're It: On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found features more than 10 hours of newly restored historic talks from the "spiritual entertainer" who helped define Eastern thought to audiences in the West. Here is a rare chance for listeners to experience the enduring brilliance of one of the greatest spiritual voices of the 20th century.

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I know I want to listen to it again, and again.

I really don't know what word to use. I'm glad it caught my attention and I read it. I will be re-listening very soon. I want to see how well I can let it all sink in. But I may now and then refer back to a random bookmark. And what it must have been to SEE him speak, I do enjoy his manner of speech. Buts it's all good. I know I am not alone when I often have to read and reread and relisten to something, just to grasp how simple it is. If you fancy the theologian and philosophy stuff, with my heart I recommend it, truly. Farewell ~

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A must read for everyone.

It really teaches you how to look within you. It changes how you look at the world and your beliefs

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Wonderful train of guided thought.

Lecture style recording makes this book feel like a personal discussion. Regardless or personal religion, this book is a great guide to deep thinking.

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New every time

I've listened to this many times and each time it is perfectly relevant to what is happening today...

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"Not a gur" he says.

Alan Watts, riveting, funny, entertaining & knowledable. He say he is NOT a guru but if you if you define guru. It's the same definition of the energy he imparts. Right on 👌

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Quintessence of Watts ;)

I can never seem to get sick of Alan Watts and his teachings... this is another splendid foray into the worlds and worldviews of eastern philosophy, deftly interpreted for the western mind, - spanning millennia and at the same time, every time, bringing us right back to the only moment that actually exists...the present.

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amazingly simple

I saw one reviewer described Watts as a wounded nan. I want to be tested kind of wounded then.
He has a natural ability in explaining ideas. He also seems to have lived his ideas from his bio.

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Wonderful explanation of the unexplainable

Zen is inscrutable to me, but I thoroughly enjoyed swimming through the concepts of no self and emptiness with this rascal.

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Keep coming back

This collection lecture has a ton of gems. I hear something new of resonance every time I listen. I can’t count how many times I’ve listened to it. Can’t recommend it enough

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Not Pretentious At All

You need to be open and in the correct mindset or level of growth to enjoy and understand Watts. First his voice is always relaxing to me but in all, I will listen numerous times and gain additional understanding of concepts or points of view each time. Take what resonates and let that sit with you. Come back and when you are ready, something else will latch on.

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