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    The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

    Written by Alan Watts

    Narrated by Sean Runnette

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    Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid and simple presentation of an alternative view based on Hindu and Vedantic philosophy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJan 27, 2015
    ISBN9781427263209
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    The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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    Alan Watts

    Alan Watts published over 25 books, including The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Way of Zen and Tao: The Watercourse Way. He was a philosopher, academic and theologian, who wrote and spoke widely on Asian philosophy and theology. He is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He was the author of more than twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion. He died in 1973.

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    • 5/5
      Thanks to whoever decided to bring the book in audio format!!!
    • 5/5
      I love Alan Watts. This is a great book and I love listening to it every so often. Just to remember I am it :D
    • 5/5
      Great to listen to Alan-----i heard him on radio during the haight-ashbury days in 1966 and 1967 and the groups he invited to his houseboat in sausalito were awesome gatherings of those who loved him dearly. A standup philosopher/comedian he would call himself and what a speaker of that which could not be spoken. You can still hear him speak on you tube. Thank you Scribd for making these books available.
      btw-----he did not die in 2020 ...wish it were so!
    • 5/5
      I felt like this was written last week. A masterpiece
    • 5/5
      As relevant today as it was when published in 1966. It is a very expansive work and If you listen with an open heart you will begin to feel the non-dual state that Watts writes about.
    • 5/5
      This is a very deep book, and all about your role in the world and why humans seem to struggle with fundamental views of their place in the world. I found myself much at peace after reading it.
    • 3/5
      This is a good book if you haven’t thought much about philosophy before. I do think that he tells a lot of obvious reflections that is not thought provoking at all like he just wrote the secret to everything. Then he talks about people from the western civilianisation for living meaningless lives, just because they choose to work hard and plan for the future, because he thinks the no one lives in the now. With all respect to Allan Watts, there is nothing wrong with having ambitions and try to better your own conditions and the world from working hard on a business. Just because you find yourself in a western business doesn’t mean you are automatically ruining the world
    • 5/5
      Absolutely brilliant if understood, much like this life. Thank you, Alan.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Good book, but bad narration. His voice quickly fades at the end of words and sentences, making it hard to hear them.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Just don't let yourself be mislead by all the new age hippy marketing speak around it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with that. It's elementary.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      This audiobook already exists and it is read by the author- this author is boring as hell and only detracts from the subject... get the original audiobook and you’ll see what I’m saying is true

      2 people found this helpful