Alan Watts | Zen & Meditation | Why Not Now (full)

"Why Not Now" is a discussion from Alan Watts' Zen & Meditation collection (link & details below). In it, Watts discusses how we need silence. Not mere absence of sound, but of the compulsive chattering of words and calculations inside our heads. Only by such silence can we get into firm touch with the real world which our languages, signs, symbols, and mathematics represent (somewhat crudely) but are not. Such silencing of head-chatter is known in the orient as yoga, dhyana, zen or the art of meditation, in which we discover, in direct experience, who or what we really are - by feeling rather than verbal definition. The reason is simply that too much chattering, not only in the head, but also in reading newspapers, listening to radio, watching TV, and interminable discussion of our various political, social, legal, philosophical, and psychological hangups has put us far out of touch with the real world - which isn't words.

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“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the un-writable’. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.” — Los Angeles Times

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• The Democratization of Buddhism
• Zen and the Controlled Accident (1-2)
• Meditation
• Zenrin Poems
• Art of Meditation
• Why Not Now (the above lecture)
• Introduction to a Contemplative Ritual
• A Contemplative Ritual
Total Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

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"Your real self, the real you, is everything there is… but concentrated and expressing itself at the point called your physical organism." - Alan Watts

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