Sam Vots je magičan (preporuka za bilo koji kratak prelet njegove biografije), najbolje opisan kao budista epikurejac, ljubitelj dobrog vina, dobrih cigara i - vanbračnih veza. There may be some beauty in that, in the sense of an organic stream of thought, but to me it felt untidy and consequently difficult to draw conclusions from his theoretical prattling (of which nothing was backed up with any real world reference). And the screws were only JUST THEN beginning to be tightened on our brains by our intense political and cultural pressure! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Knjižica mi je baš legla, jer se Vots ne bazira na isključivo logičkim argumentima (ima par falinki, nije da ih nema, ali koga briga), nego igra na foru intuicije.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It's a very non-Western principle but it contains a depth of truth that Western philosophy has never quite understood. I realize that no matter how much security I may gain I will always need more of it, and this striving can set me on an endless “hamster wheel” of anxiety.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. He plays with thoughts like how a chess master plays with the figures on the board: while he dances around with ease along his thoughts, the patterns and conclusions are striking.

One gets the sense that Watts has wrestled with his own demons and developed a depth of self-awareness that would scare many of us.

However, I do think there are some interesting possibilities for investigating what this kind of experience he describes may be.

It made the familiar strange, and took me out of my habitual ways of thinking and perceiving for a little bit.If you are the type of reader that highlights the important parts, i would suggest just dipping this entire book in yellow dye. I honestly think that if I had spent many years studying East Asian philosophy (drawing from literature and other sources as well, as Watts does) and compiling my findings into a short book, I would have come up with something very similar. Traveling in Asia makes it clear that most Buddhists and Hindus there are engaged in superstitious rituals with a more literal interpretation of scripture than Watts’ winking at the reader suggests. No matter how much security we try to gather we will always need more, which only perpetuates our anxious cycles. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.