Alan Watts explains "Nothingness"

Nothingness: Alan Watts Official

(Alan Watts Org) "Nothingness" is one of eight programs recorded for The Essential Alan Watts aboard the ferry boat S.S. Vallejo in Sausalito, California, in the spring of 1972. The recordings by Alan were taped by his son Mark and sound engineer Henry "Sandy" Jacobs.

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In the West we tend to believe “you can't get something for nothing,” but in this program Watts explores the possibility that nothing may be the very basis of something — and uses the example of sounds emerging out of silence to explain what is discovered in Zen practice.

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• Alan Watts via Something's Happening on LA radio: KPFK
• Online Archives of Pacifica Free Speech Radio, Los Angeles (KPFK 90.7 FM)
• Alan Watts (alanwatts.org), Aug. 16, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly