ALLAN WATTS FREE
“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”.The thinker has no other form than his thought. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. “To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot.You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don’t like doing, which is stupid.” “If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time.As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.” “We do not “come into” this world we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.According to the critic Erik Davis, his “writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity.” Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view-the best book I have ever written.” He also explored human consciousness in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958) and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962). In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley.
Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-American philosopher who interpreted and popularised Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.
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