Eastern Wisdom Collection

This set features the following six six-CD sets:

Buddhism: Religion of No Religion
Oriental Philosophy
Taoism
Way Beyond the West
Zen and the Arts
Zen in the West

$300.00 (Six six-CD sets)

Buddhism: Religion of No Religion

This set features six CDs of live lecture recordings by Alan Watts.

The Journey from India
The Middle Way
Buddhism as Dialogue
Religion of No Religion
Transcending Duality
Diamond Web

$60.00 (on CD)

Oriental Philosophy

This set features six CDs of live lecture recordings by Alan Watts.

Introduction to Oriental Philosophy
Oriental Philosophy II: Buddhism
Oriental Philosophy III: Taoism
Way Beyond Seeking I & II
Way Beyond Seeking III: Hinduism
Way Beyond Seeking IV: Yoga

$60.00 (on CD)

Taoism

This set features six CDs of live lecture recordings by Alan Watts.

Swimming Headless
Wisdom of the Ridiculous
Philosophy of the Tao I & II
Philosophy of the Tao II & IV
Being in the Way I & II
Being in the Way III & IV

$60.00 (on CD)

Way Beyond the West

This set features six CDs of live lecture recordings by Alan Watts.

Study of Asia
Constitution of Nature
Parallel Thinking
Love of Waters
Ghosts (on Wittgenstein)
Karma: Law of Retribution
Fundamentals of Buddhism
The Gateless Gate
Buddhist Mysticism
Bhagavad Gita
Return to the Forest (on Joseph Campbell)
The Oddyssey of Aldous Huxley

$60.00 (on CD)

Zen and the Arts

This set features six CDs of live lecture recordings by Alan Watts.

The Democratization of Buddhism
Zen and the Controlled Accident I & II
Zen and the Controlled Accident III & IV
A Contemplative Ritual
Why Not Now?
Zenrin Poems

$60.00 (on CD)

Zen and the West

This set features six CDs of live lecture recordings by Alan Watts.

Introduction to Zen
Early Chinese Zen I
Early Chinese Zen II
Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk
Zen Bones
Biting and Iron Bull

$60.00 (on CD)

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Quotable Watts

So the question we come to now, is well, how do you go about knowing the field of forces in which you live? How do you know which way the wind is blowing so you can sail properly, when it isn’t as simple a matter of wetting your finger and holding it up to see which side gets cold first, and that’s where the wind’s coming from. Or is it as simple as that? We know, or think we know, that nature is extraordinarily complicated, and so very difficult to understand. And if you can’t understand an immensely complicated situation it’s very difficult to make decisions about it.

But, there is a point of view from which nature is not complicated, and that, to an educated westerner, may sound quite astonishing. When Buddhists speak in their philosophy about the world of form, and the world that is formless, these two categories translate roughly to the world as complicated and the world as simple. What makes the world complicated is not it’s actual physical structure, but an attempt to understand it in a certain way. When you ask: “How does it work?” “Why does it do it?” then you start analyzing a flower, a body, an geological structure, and you are asking the question, really: “How can I reproduce in words or numbers what is going on here?”

Essential Seminar Series

This set features Eight CDs from the Essential Seminar Series:

Birth, Death, and the Unborn I
Birth, Death, and the Unborn II
Pursuit of Pleasure I
Pursuit of Pleasure II
Pursuit of Pleasure III
Pursuit of Pleasure IV
Problems of Mediation I
Problems of Mediation II
Problems of Mediation III

$75.00 (on CD)

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