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The Book

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Description for The Book Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are explores an unrecognised but mighty taboo - our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really are. Alan Watts, key thinker of Western Zen Buddhism, explains how to reconsider our relationship with the world. We are in urgent need of a sense of our own existence, which is in accord with the physical facts and which overcomes our feeling of alienation from the universe. In The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Alan Watts asks what causes the illusion of the self as a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Souvenir Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780285638532
SKU
V9780285638532
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99-50

About Alan Watts
Alan Watts was a philosopher, academic and theologian, who wrote and spoke widely on Asian philosophy and theology. Central in introducing Eastern philosophical and religious thought to Western readers, he became a Buddhist as a teenager and moved to California in 1951, where he became a counterculture icon and one of the best-known writers of the 1960's and 1970's. ... Read more

Reviews for The Book
The best book I've ever read on the nature of what actually is, what the world is about, and how you should behave.
John Lloyd
Desert Island Discs
Offering spiritual answers to the problems of a materialistic lifestyle, alienated from the natural world, Watts is the voice of all who seek a deeper understanding of their own ... Read more

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