Nothingness is one of eight programs recorded for the Essential Alan Watts aboard the ferry boat S.S. Vallejo in Sausalito, C.A., in the spring of 1972. The recordings by Alan were taped by his son Mark, and sound engineer Henry ‘Sandy’ Jacobs.
In the West we tend to believe “you can’t get something for nothing” but in this program Alan explores the possibility that nothing may be the very basis of something — and uses the example of sounds coming out of silence to explain what is discovered in Zen practice.
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“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Alan Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the un-writable’. Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit. A fascinating entry into the deepest ways of knowing.” — Los Angeles Times
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