Alan Watts on Zen’s Golden Age | Awakening, Satori, and No-Mind

Alan Watts | The Golden Age of Zen (Out of Your Mind, The World As Just So – Part 1)

This is Alan Watts at his most brilliant—tracing the Golden Age of Zen from the Sixth Patriarch Enō through the rise of Rinzai and Sōtō Zen. Watts reveals how these formative centuries shaped Zen’s humor, paradox, spontaneity, and methods of awakening.

He explores Zen’s explosive creativity in China, its flowering in Japan, and the essence of satori — awakening from the illusion of being a separate self. With vivid imagery and sharp wit, Watts shows how Zen turns ordinary life inside out, revealing the universe itself as your true self.

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Speaker: Alan Watts
Series: Out of Your Mind
Chapter: The World As Just So (Part 1)
Section: The Golden Age of Zen
Themes: Satori, Zen awakening, Rinzai & Sōtō schools, Bodhidharma, Hui-neng, Dōgen, Zen paradox, and the illusion of ego.

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