Still the Mind, and Introduction to Mediation by Alan Watts | Audio & eBook

Hello and welcome to the Ancient wisdom modern mind download page and in this Audio Lecture and eBook Alan Watts discusses the nature of Meditation.

🕧 EBOOK CHAPTERS 🕧

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART 1. THE ESSENTIAL PROCESS OF THE WORLD

Chapter 1. Who We are in the Universe

Chapter 2. Meet Your Real Self

PART 2. THE ESSENTIAL PROCESS MEDITATION

Chapter 3. The Philosophy of meditation

Chapter 4. The Practice of Meditation

PART 3. STILL THE MIND

Chapter 5. The Contemplative Ritual

In the beginning of Still the Mind, Alan Watts mentions the gift he had been given — and it was a unique gift. Watts was able to take his readers and listeners on a journey beyond the often-ignored limitations of calculation and reckoning. Perhaps the greatest part of this gift was his ability to show us how to discover simple ways of getting out of the mental trap we create for ourselves.

In our modern society, it has become apparent that the power-based world — the world of politics, government, and international finance that influences all of us — has been absolutely hypnotized and driven crazy by words and by thoughts.

We have become slaves to recurring patterns in an endless s t ream of words. Our political leaders talk incessantly about our many problems, but it’s as if they’re speaking a foreign language one might call “memorandese.” Almost everyone has had the experience of watching a political debate and wondering afterward what on earth the candidates were talking about.

To some degree, all civilized people are out of touch with reality because we fail to distinguish between the way things are and the way they are described. For politicians this dichotomy has reached extreme proportions, but it affects every-one. We confuse money, which is an abstraction, with real wealth; we confuse the idea of who we are with the actual experience of our organic existence.

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