Merle, alan watts and ram dass have made a popular comeback in the past couple of years, since his stroke ram dass has focused a lot on death and dying issues and since his death, watts still continues to be " discovered" my many people young and older. It is strange, but many times I feel watts waits until an entity really needs help and then leads them to discover his talks and books. That thought of mine may sound too much like " woowoo" to most people, but it is just my theory.
M On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Merle Lester <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > yes i have books here on my shelf by watts from my early 20's.."the days > of wine and roses..the salad days"..merle > > > I did not put the name Ramana to the popular maharishi I knew of in the > 60's. As I noted to Suresh in a later post, Ramana was very popular with > rock stars, movie stars and the youth of the decade and even though I > stopped and read a little about Ramana while I was younger, I was more > interested in what Ram Dass and Alan Watts had to say ..It was actually > through these two speakers and authors that I learned about Buddhism and > have since continued to study and practice Buddhism. I don't think it was > the language barrier as a child that made me favor Ram Dass and Watts but a > practical approach to some of the Life experiences they talked about. > > Thank you for your reply. > > M > . > > > > > > >
