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Manuale di saggezza, trattato psicologico, breviario zen, "Diventa ciò che sei" racchiude al suo interno diverse chiavi di lettura, con l'intenzione di offrire al lettore una via concreta per la realizzazione e la liberazione di sé, o come dice lo stesso Watts, per cogliere la propria vita «così com'è». In questi scritti Alan Watts dimostra l'intelligenza e la brillantezza di pensiero che lo hanno reso uno degli interpreti più popolari e apprezzati del pensiero orientale, e affronta da angolazioni diverse la sfida di comprendere il significato e la dimensione della propria vita. La saggezza taoista per una vita armoniosa, i limiti del linguaggio di fronte all'ineffabilità della vita interiore, la sintesi tra simbolismo religioso occidentale e orientale sono fra i vari temi a cui Watts ricorre in questi scritti per chiarire la sua posizione, e per illustrare al lettore la ricchezza di un'autentica vita spirituale.
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- Pagine: 168
- Data di uscita: 02-05-2017
Recensioni
Whatever else I may have found to absorb during my now several years of practice I am both glad and grateful that I found Alan Watts, the self proclaimed "spiritual entertainer". His grasp of the essence of practice as it has at least presented to me, is both incisive and insightful and he is always Leggi tutto
Become what you are and stop trying so hard to become what you are not. :)
I really enjoyed this book a lot although not the best Watts. The book is basically just a short collection of essays about becoming what you are collected from mostly magazines. A lot of the essays, since not originally intended to be put in a book form, make some of the same points over and over a Leggi tutto
“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it persists forever.”
The title perfectly captures the essential truth of this book, but echoes something more akin to the self-help genre rather than philosophy, which will naturally put off a lot of the people who should read it. Additionally, as I have felt compelled to say in the past when reviewing some books on Eas Leggi tutto
“The unenlightened man keeps a tight hold on himself because he is afraid of losing himself; he can trust neither circumstances nor his own human nature; he is terrified of being genuine, of accepting himself as he is and tries to deceive himself into the belief that he is as he wishes to be. But
Five star thoughts with a three star delivery. Watts is too brilliant at times - his methods of delivery often get muddled into over explaining without rhythm.
Who you are is what you were?? Don't be fooled by the number of pages. It's a short book, but very dense. Alan Watts does a good job of making Eastern Buddhism accessible to Westerners, but there is still a lot of circuitous / paradoxical logic that is difficult to understand upon first read.
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