Alan Watts Quotes


There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.


Citations

Watts, Alan. Out of Your Mind. Sounds True, 2017.

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Alan Watts
Alan Watts
  • Born: January 6, 1915
  • Died: November 16, 1973
  • Nationality: British, American
  • Profession: Philosopher

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.