The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
176
Utgivningsdatum
2009-05-05
Upplaga
Main
Förlag
Souvenir Press Ltd
Dimensioner
185 x 144 x 13 mm
Vikt
154 g
ISBN
9780285638532

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The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (häftad)

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

av Alan Watts
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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 separate ego which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather, a person's identity binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment and other people. The separation of the self and the physical world leads to the misuse of technology and the attempt to violently subjugate man's natural environment, leading to its destruction. Watts urges against the idea that we are separate from the world. Nowhere is this idea more apparent than in the concept of cultural taboos. The biggest taboo of all is knowing who we really are behind the mask of our self as presented to the world. Through our focus on ourselves and the world as it affects us, we have developed narrowed perception. Alan Watts tells us how to open our eyes and see ourselves not as coming into the world but from it. In understanding the individual's real place in the universe, Watts presents a critique of Western culture and a healing alternative.
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  1. Simplistisk och dogmatisk polemik
    J. Hansson, 19 augusti 2018

    Det här är verkligen ytlig nonsensfilosofi. Varje sida fylls av författarens projektioner om hur människor tänker och det är som att läsa en predikan. Dåliga analogier från var som, används för att lansera "Watts-sanningar", vilket alltsom ofta är en psykedelisk fantasi och new age:ig av ett tämligen komplicerat fenomen. Det finns så mycket påståenden och s.k. sanningar på varje sida som det är väldigt enkelt att påvisa hur fel han har. Så klart finns det inte en enda vettig referens i hela ... Läs hela recensionen

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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 identity and role in the world. * Watkins Review * No words can describe just how profoundly perspective-shifting The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are is in its entirety, and with what exquisite stickiness it stays with you for a lifetime. * Brain Pickings * For a new generation of readers... look at this ancient philosophy from a modern counter-cultural standpoint. Alan Watts explores the subject in concrete terms, using current idioms and expressions which will also appeal to the younger reader. -- Vedanta 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 identity and role in the world. -- Watkins Review Reminds us how Watts presented complex theories and views in a subtle yet straightforward fashion... Still an iconic figure... he made great breakthroughs in stretching our philosophical horizons. -- Beat Scene

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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. He was the author of more than twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion including Behold the Spirit, The Way of Zen, and Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal. He died in 1973.