The Philosophy of Alan Watts
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Alan Watts was a 20th century British American philosopher born in 1915. He is renowned for his wit, eloquence, and success in translating and infusing Eastern philosophy into the Western world.
Watts is regarded as being greatly responsible for the popularization of Buddhist and Zen principles in the West, inspiring the beat and hippie movements in the United States during the 60s and 70s and causing major cultural shifts away from traditional western values.
During his life before dying in 1973, at 58 Watts published over 25 books and articles on various Western and Eastern theories and was the first to write a best-selling book on Buddhism entitled The way of Zen published in 1957.
Watts’s unique ability to understand, conceive and translate complex alternative philosophies into practical digestible language makes it clear why he is one of the most enjoyed and influential philosophers in recent history. Watts’s interest in Eastern philosophy stems from his childhood enjoyment of Chinese and Japanese storybooks, as well as his affinity with Eastern aesthetic.
He found that things like light, color and nature were shown in profoundly beautiful and…
