My first introduction to zen was THIS IS IT! by Alan Watts...Bill!
--- In [email protected], "Eccentrics.R.US" <HALatMOTHERSHIP@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> M
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> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>wrote:
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> > 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
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> > 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.
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> > Thank you for your reply.
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> > M
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