/lit/ - Literature

>>20454564
Why would you want to read this deadbeat? I can understand why you might find him compelling if you were some 20-something living in the West in the 60s who had never heard of the Buddha before, but why bother with a sleazy white guru now?

>>20454564
>teaches freedom from suffering
>died from alcoholism

Wattsbros...I-

>>20454667
Not OP but I consider him a popularize and entertainer not a true teacher. Still I find his voice soothing and his lectures fun. His idea of the western mind seeing the world as an object or vessel without a creator vs Indian culture seeing the world as a dream play is interesting if nothing else.

Better off reading real buddhist books

>In the Buddhas Words
>Without and Within
>Way of the Bodhisattvas

Are all great introductory and comprehensive portrayals of buddhism that will really give you a taste of eastern philosphy and actually help improve your life. Watts is fun but he ends up being a lot of mental masturbation.

>>20454564
Dying

>>20456372
>and actually help improve your life.
really?

>>20456430
You'll suffer less which I would say makes life better overall.

>>20456430
Worked for me

To hell with this drugged-up, wino tartuffe and all his rationalizations and shit-scribbles.

>>20454564
His first book.

>>20458246
A low dose of mushrooms would clear up most of that impotent rage you have, and who knows you might learn some perspective.

The Wisdom of Insecurity

Hands down. Short and sweet. Captures the essence of his thought and distills it wonderfully. The basic premise is that the feeling of insecurity is the same thing as the desire to be secure, given that none of us can never actually be secure.

>>20456372
>"Bodhisattva"
>real Buddhism

KEK

spirit of zen

but i enjoy his lectures more than his books