Zen and the Beat Way: (Zen Teachings of Alan Watts)

"Everything disappears into nothing at all, but out of that same nothing at all come all the new things, forever and ever." —Alan Watts

When Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums, his views on Zen Buddhism echoed the sentiments of the Beat Generation, who found in Zen a way of life unencumbered by the limits of "square" society. And it was the philosopher Alan Watts who first wrote and spoke about Zen and Eastern culture in terms accessible to mainstream Western audiences. Watts was an en...