I was 12 years old when I bought Allan Watts’ Way of Zen. I may not have understood everything I was reading, but it was my first step into enlightenment. Now, many decades later, this book is as fresh and new as the first day I read it. It offers a new way of looking at our lives. And, like all classics, never gets old or irrelevant.
After I finished the book, I took a walk by the ocean. All of time stood still for me. All was radiance surrounding me in total stillness. Reading this book gave me a breakthrough into a new way of seeing my reality. It liberated me from the punitive, creationist view of spirituality that I grew up with. I saw that humorous and incisive souls were shining through a new way of thought
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I have come full circle from those days long ago. And I return to this major work of spiritual insight with complete awe and gratitude to its author!
After I finished the book, I took a walk by the ocean. All of time stood still for me. All was radiance surrounding me in total stillness. Reading this book gave me a breakthrough into a new way of seeing my reality. It liberated me from the punitive, creationist view of spirituality that I grew up with. I saw that humorous and incisive souls were shining through a new way of thought
.
I have come full circle from those days long ago. And I return to this major work of spiritual insight with complete awe and gratitude to its author!
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