Alan Watts Lecture on the Tao Te Ching

I’m posting this audio lecture by Alan Watts on Sunday because many years ago (around 1974 or so) there was an alternative radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area called KSAN. They were part of the original vanguard of alternative radio who not only played great music of  the time, but each Sunday they’d broadcast a lecture by Alan Watts and I would always make it a point to sit and listen Watts weekly lecture.

In this lecture he explains the “Tao Te Ching” and I think you’ll find it very interesting when he begins to interpret this ancient Chinese work by Lao Tzu as a guide for governing – he who governs least governs best.  This is just one of the aspects of the Tao Te Ching that Watts touches on and I think it is a perfect posting for a Sunday and that you’ll find it perfectly engaging and enlightening.

If you’re not familiar with Alan Watts you’d be doing yourself a favor to find out more about him and his works. I consider him to be one of the most  influential philosophers of his time and when I was in college many years ago wrote an essay about him, his teachings and his background, which is really quite fascinating by the way because though his ideas were quite philosophical, he was also very much grounded in the here and now.

Alan Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.

He wrote more than 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness. In his books he relates his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religion, spirituality and philosophy.

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