Alan Watts was very clear in emphasising the fact that he wasn’t a Zen Buddhist. Watts was - as I have christened his amalgamation of Eastern philosophies - a ‘Zenist’ (or if you prefer, a ‘Wattsist’). He skillfully translated, amalgamated and cherrypicked concepts from a whole variety of Eastern philosophies, chiefly Zen Buddhism, but also Taoism, H…
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