Unlock Your Potential: Exploring Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek

This book, Out of Your Mind by Alan Watts, is one of the best Karma Buddhism Books available. It covers the concept of Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek in an easy-to-understand way. Not only is the content of the book top-notch, but the binding and pages are of the highest quality, making it a great choice for those looking for an overall satisfactory experience.
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Cristine Karapetyan: This is my favorite book by Alan Watts! Just such an insightful, accurate read of the universe!

United States on Jun 26, 2023

Lyndsay L.: I am a huge Alan Watts fan. Mostly i listen to his lectures on You Tube, but sometimes they are only 10 minute fragments. This collection is wonderful!! You can hear the complete lectures exactly as they were recorded. This is a must for any fan of his work. I have read most of his books but when you hear his actual voice expressing the same thoughts it is a more satisfying complete experience.

United States on Jan 16, 2023

Chris machado: Very beautiful book brings you closer to god and truth

Canada on Dec 24, 2022

Placeholder: The Title of the Book really sums up everything in it...I would recommend one to buy this if you're really ready for what Alan Watts has to offer....

India on Dec 03, 2020

Ang: Amazing. Simply unplug your mind, let it flow.

IT IS CONFUSING, it will leave you questioning life, but let it settle in your mind and it will make sense in a few days after putting the book down.

Flip your inside outside, and get wiggly with it

Canada on Nov 15, 2020

Ranveer: Interesting read. There are some amazing wisdom nuggets about tricks that mind plays on us and how to approach it effectively without getting caught up in the grip of the ego.

Canada on Sep 25, 2019

Virginie Storm: In diesem Buch sind sechs Vorträge von Alan Watts zusammengefasst.

Die Themen reichen von Mythen und Modellen zur Entstehung der Welt, über das Ego und dem Streben nach Erleuchtung bis zu Buddhismus und Hinduismus.

"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. It’s like radar on a ship — it’s a troubleshooter. Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain to scan the environment for trouble. And if you identify yourself as the troubleshooter, you define yourself as living in a perpetual state of anxiety. The moment you cease to identify with the ego and become aware that you are the whole organism, you realize how harmonious it all is."

Watts erläutert in einfachen Worten und eingängigen Beispielen das Selbst und das 'höhere Selbst', Nirvana, Absichtslosigkeit, Unbeständigkeit und das Wesen von Gedanken, um einige Beispiele zu nennen.

"People who think that in order to be awakened you have to be heartless and beyond feelings — that you couldn’t possibly lose your temper or feel annoyed or depressed — those people haven’t got the right idea at all."

Bevor man sich in Konzepten und Interpretationen...

Germany on Jul 28, 2019

GHB: I was thrilled to discover this set of recordings, which are both informative and entertaining. I don't know that someone with little or no knowledge of eastern religions and/or Buddhism would benefit as much as someone who does have some background because the talks were recorded specifically for those with an assumed familiarity to the subject. Still, for me, they not only helped clarify and expound upon some teachings, but also offered historical reasoning. I enjoyed hearing Alan Watt's speak. He has a great sense of humor, a very easy to follow way of teaching and expounding on each subject, and the material presented here is fairly comprehensive. I've listened to the entire set and intend to do so again. It's perfect for long distance air travel, or any kind of travel (since you can load the CDs onto your iPod, or your car stereo, etc.). But if you copy them to your iPod, you'll have to be careful to add a preface numbers and Disc titles in your iTunes playlist so that all the lectures play back in their proper order (001.01 for Disc One, talk one, etc.) and will advance automatically through the series. Don't let the fact that these lectures were recorded in the late 1960's...

United States on Mar 10, 2017

shopper 101: Its hard to believe these lectures are 50+ years old. There is absolutely no sense of these tracks being dated in any way. I can listen to the same lecture/episode/track over and over again; like others, I just like listening to his voice. I was already familiar with AW as I used to have some of his tapes in my car in a previous era.

Very few lemons in this bunch, in fact, perhaps only two or three out of the 100+ sections. Best investment I've made in some time.

Its difficult to summarize the content. Perhaps a simple table of contents would be useful (sure wish amazon would make a habit of publishing these!).

CD 1. The nature of consciousness, Part 1
1. Intro
2. Our image of the world
3. The myth of the ceramic construct
4. The myth of the automatic universe
5. A wiggly world
6. A game that's worth the candle
7. An independent system
8. Whose game is it?
9. The world as a drama

CD 2. The nature of consciousness, Part 2
1. Intro
2. Being aware of awareness
3. Captivated by the drama
4. The game of hide and seek
5. Consciousness beyond awareness
6. How do we define ourselves?
7. What it is to see
8. The...

United States on Feb 01, 2014



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