Mike,
Howdy; Thanks; well, his book ": on the taboo against knowing who you are",
tells it more entertainingly than I can: THE BOOK.
There is not (Buddhist) Emptiness, there. There is Brahman; and little Atman.
Are these big differences? I'd say, "Yes". Do I claim that, because Watts
wrote about them, this way, in this book, that he was more a Vedantist than a
Zen person? Yes. Why? Because he wrote about Vedanta AT ALL.
Maybe he was neither. He was, after all, an ex- Anglican minister. And
seeking always for a mystical religion. I suppose it didn't matter much to him
which it was.
And a very interesting character. Advocate of Psychedelics, in his time. And
Cadillacs.
--Joe
> uerusuboyo@... wrote:
>
> Joe, I recall you mentioning Alan Watts as being more a follower of advaita
> vedanta than Zen. Could you elaborate on this a bit more, especially as to
> what you regard are the fundamental differences between Zen and advaita.
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