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What is Talking Zen about?

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Insightful and entertaining essays spanning 40 years of lectures by Alan Watts on Zen, Taoism, psychedelics, and comparative philosophy. Alan Watts's essays and talks range widely through psychology, art, religion, and politics, but always come home to the Zen core. For those familiar with Alan Watts’s style of presentation, the wonderful, memorable, and prophetic style of his voice is captured in this volume. Talking Zen puts on display Watts’s ability to explore the very subtle philosophies, those common across traditions and those unique to Zen, in ordinary and accessible language. These lectures paved the way for the rise of Zen in the West.

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What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Talking Zen?

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Philosophy and Religion > Religion and beliefs > Buddhism > Buddhism: branches and groups > Mahayana Buddhism > Zen Buddhism

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Where can I read a sample of Talking Zen?

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You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781645470960

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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Talking Zen?

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Alan Watts, Mark Watts

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Who is the Publisher of the book Talking Zen?

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Shambhala

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What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

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Talking Zen is available as paperback(ISBN 9781645470960) and paperback(ISBN 9780834803138) and ebook(ISBN 9780834844537)

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