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Playing Hide and Seek
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Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance.” Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Western mysticism, and analytic psychology, Watts demonstrates that happiness comes from accepting both the outer world around us and the inner world inside us,
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Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid and simple presentation of an alternative view based on Hindu and Vedantic philosophy.
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Invaluable Insight
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Discover how the understanding and practice of Zen can bring peace and enlightenment into your daily life in this classic work. Narrated by Sean Runnette, this audio program presents Alan Watts's classic bestseller, introducing Western listeners to Zen Buddhism and elaborating on the key concepts including: The history of Zen, the principles and practice of Zen, the tradition of Za-Zen (meditation) and the Koan, and the integration of Zen into every aspect of life. The Way of Zen presents an understandable, inspirational, and spiritually rewarding exploration of Zen Buddhism.
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With Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us.
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Another great book
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Alan W. Watts' "message for an age of anxiety" is as powerful today as it was when this modern classic was first published. We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the future, too much time lamenting the past. We often miss the pleasures of the moment in our anxious efforts to ensure the next moment is as enjoyable. Drawing from Eastern philosophy and religion, Watts argues that it is only by acknowledging what we do not and cannot know that we can find something truly worth knowing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading!
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In My Own Way
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 72
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Macmillan Audio presents In My Own Way, Alan Watts' acclaimed autobiography, published for the first time in audio.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is Alan Watts at his very best, as a free spirit.
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Psychotherapy East and West
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Alan Watts examines the problem of humans in a seemingly hostile universe in ways that question the social norms and illusions that bind and constrict modern humans. Marking a groundbreaking synthesis, Watts asserts that the powerful insights of Freud and Jung, which had, indeed, brought psychiatry close to the edge of liberation, could, if melded with the hitherto secret wisdom of the Eastern traditions, free people from their battles with the self.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I have come to expect from Alan Watts works
- By Shiva Laxmi on 03-22-19
Publisher's Summary
It is often difficult - if not impossibe - to assimilate certain new ideas, especially if they come from an entirely different culture and time. In Playing Hide and Seek, the incomparable Alan Watts invties us to consider the mind-blowing truth of the total interdependence of everything in the world.
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- 08-12-19
Great listen!
The only thing I wish is hat it was longer. I defiantly recommend Alan Watts - You Are It or zen tales. Both are great books but either way Alan Watts never disappoints.
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- Leonard peart
- 02-25-19
Alan Watts did a wonderful job in this book
the point of view from Alan Watts was wonderful how he interpreted the world and how everything comes together the true meaning of everything in this universe
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- rbgriffin1
- 12-26-18
don't buy
just a broken piece not worth anything maybe more like an incomplete sample Will return as soon as possible
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- Devin
- 12-12-17
1 thing I don't like...
It cuts off mid speech....not sure why they even put this on here 😂😭 It is Alan Watts tho so 5stars
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- Reademandweep
- 06-04-16
Too short to be relevant.
This is an excerpt from Alan Watts' seminar and in my opinion it is too short to be really useful. It speaks about duality had such but it's clipped off at the end abruptly and he makes reference to other parts of his lecture. I recommend buying the complete book or at least one of the excerpts that's more than an hour long. That said, it's still Alan Watts which means it's all good.
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- Jaime M
- 03-11-15
Short
Only 30 min long. I love Alan Watts but this should be combined w other works or cost less. Ok
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- AmazonCustomer
- 08-09-13
Ends mid-sentence
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
In as much as I love Alan Watts & all of his works, this "book" ends in mid-sentence, HUGELY disappointed.
What did you like best about this story?
Alan Watts
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of the narrator?
I would have cast it exactly as it was.. but I would have FINISHED the speech.
Do you think Playing Hide and Seek needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No, Alan Watts is dead.
Any additional comments?
Super disappointment
2 of 4 people found this review helpful