Alan Watts Asks: What If Money Was No Object? This Video Could Change Your Life (Video)
by N.Morgan Alan Wilson Watts was a British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing 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. Is it love? Is it a success? How about the experience? Or happiness? In an attempt to answer this question, you may have found yourself constantly running into mental obstacles formed as more questions such as: What about money ? What about love ? What about the time ? What about everything that is expected of me? There are just too many detours along the road to desire, most of them dead-end. With such an expansive question, rigged with stock answers by society, your answer may look something like: “Everything! Nothing? I don’t really know.” The philosopher Alan Watts spent his career reconciling Eastern Zen practices with Western thought and civilization. I...