The Complete Audio Works of Alan Watts

Three Library Collections including:

19 Audio Series with 189 Recordings (135+ Hours)

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The Essentials Collection : Remastered

Tao of Philosophy • 8 Recordings = 5 hours, 58 minutes

We As Organism – 52:30
Do You Do It, or Does It Do You – 53:20
Coincidence of Opposites – 38:54
Learning the Human Game – 43:57
Myth of Myself – 42:11
Intellectual Yoga – 41:50
Man in Nature – 54:48
Doing Itself – 31:31

Philosophy and Society • 8 Recordings = 4 hours, 48 minutes

What is Reality – 38:05
Nature of Consciousness – 42:02
Play of the Self – 27:00
Veil of Thoughts Pt. 1 – 36:48
Veil of Thoughts Pt. 2 – 40:10
Veil of Thoughts Pt. 3 – 26:51
Divine Madness – 26:12
Education for Non-Entity – 1:02:28

Comparative Philosophy • 8 Recordings = 5 hours, 42 minutes

Seeing Through the Net – 43:42
Mind Over Mind – 52:45
Eastern Thought in the West – 57:12
Mysticism and Morality – 52:18
Psychology of Mystical Experience – 32:12
Spiritual Authority – 52:50
On Being God – 1:00:53
Limits of Language – 50:32

Ways of Liberation • 8 Recordings = 5 hours, 29 minutes

Of Itself So – 29:04
Thou Art That – 24:13
Mythology of Hinduism – 56:37
Game of Hide and Seek – 50:51
The Cosmic Drama – 26:27
The Middle Way – 52:21
On Buddhism – 52:30
Wisdom of the Watercourse – 37:58

Eastern Wisdom Collection: Remastered

Eastern and Western Zen • 8 Recordings = 5 hours, 50 minutes

Eco Zen – 53:13
The World as Just So Pt. 1 – 49:39
The World as Just So Pt. 2 – 58:57
Zen Bones – 38:40
Inner Vision – 24:02
Zen in the West – 42:02
Early Chinese Zen – 45:52
A Contemplative Social Ritual – 38:27

Japan Tour 1965 • 7 Recordings = 5 hours, 52 minutes

Philosophy of Nature – 44:48
Journey from India – 42:27
Buddhism as Dialogue – 53:20
Following the Middle Way – 61:33
Zen Stories – 53:13
Religion of No Religion – 52:20
Space and Reincarnation – 44:40

Zen and the Arts • 8 Recordings = 6 hours, 22 minutes

Zen and the Art of the Controlled Accident Pt. 1 – 40:30
Zen and the Art of the Controlled Accident Pt. 2 – 55:39
Zen and the Art of the Controlled Accident Pt. 3 – 56:29
Zen and the Art of the Controlled Accident Pt. 4 – 45:32
Uncarved Block – 40:36
Democratization of the Esoteric - 55:48
Landscape, Soundscape in Painting, Music, and Mystical Vision - 59:04
Zenrin Poems – 28:47

Way Beyond Seeking • 8 Recordings = 6 hours, 2 minutes

Being in the Way pt. 1 - 43:45
Being in the Way pt. 2 - 37:20
Being in the Way pt. 3 - 49:53
Tao of Lao-tse - 46:13
Swimming Headless - 52:32
Wisdom of the Ridiculous - 32:31
Taoist Way of Dropping Out - 45:48
Interdependent Origination - 54:41

Buddhist-Taoist Meditation • 8 Recordings = 4 hours, 12 minutes

Intelligent Mindlessness – 30:07
Art of Meditation – 24:44
Why Not Now! – 24:21
Wu Wei Meditations – 23:53
Inevitable Ecstasy Pt. 1 – 36:22
Inevitable Ecstasy Pt. 2 – 32:11
Inevitable Ecstasy Pt. 3 – 41:54
Inevitable Ecstasy Pt. 4 – 39:28

Tao for Now • 7 Recordings = 4 hours, 29 minutes

Philosophy of the Tao Pt. 1: The Course of Nature – 50:06
Philosophy of the Tao Pt. 2: Taoist Way – 40:30
Philosophy of the Tao Pt. 3: Existence is Relativity – 45:50
Philosophy of the Tao Pt. 4: Nature that is ‘Self-So’ – 44:43
Flow Pt. 1: Meditation and Flow – 31:36
Flow Pt. 2: Symbolic Reality vs. ‘Real’ Reality – 22:19
Flow Pt. 3: The Spirit of Buddhist Chanting – 34:40

Extended Seminars : Original Recordings

Comparative Religion • 8 Recordings = 6 hours, 47 minutes

Four Ways to the Center (1-4)
Worldly Religions (1-4)

Early Radio Talks • 26 Recordings = 12 hours, 7 minutes

Aldous Huxley (1-2)
Art of Psychoanalysis
Bang or Whimper
Bhagavad Gita
Buddhist Mysticism
Constitution of Nature
Daylight Savings
Fundamentals of Buddhism
G.K. Chesterton
Gateless Gate
Ghosts (1-2)
Humor in Religion
Laws of Karma
Man is a Hoax
Parallel Thinking
Play & Sincerity
Problems of Preaching
Reconciliation of Opposites
Return to the Forest
Seeing Through the Game
Study of Asia
Symbolic and the Real
Tribute to Carl Jung
Un-Preachable Religion

Spiritual Alchemy • 9 Recordings = 7 hours, 42 minutes

The Psychedelic Experience (1-3)
The Psychedelic Explosion (1-4)
Turning the Head or Turning On (1-2)

The Arts • 4 Recordings = 3 hours, 9 minutes

Bushido
The Importance of Space
The Way of Tea (1-2)

The Future • 18 Recordings = 10 hours, 17 minutes

The Future of Communications (1-6)
The Future of Politics (1-4)
The Future of Religion (1-4)
Time and the Future (1-4)

The Self • 15 Recordings = 12 hours, 41 minutes

Birth, Death and the Unborn (1-2)
Play and Survival (1-2)
Pursuit of Pleasure (1-4)
World as Play (1-4)
World as Self (1-3)

The Universe • 8 Recordings = 6 hours, 36 minutes

Individual and the World (1-4)
Power of Space (1-4)

Buddhism • 19 Recordings = 15 hours, 9 minutes

Net of Jewels (1-4)
Problems in Meditation (1-3)
Thusness (1-4)
World as Consciousness (1-4)
Zen Reconsidered (1-4)

Human Consciousness • 8 Recordings = 7 hours, 48 minutes

Ecological Awareness (1-4)
Transformation of Consciousness (1-4)

Quotes Found Within "The Works"

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

I owe my solitude to other people.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Saints need sinners.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by some kind of cosmic lawgiver.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

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