读过《The Wisdom of Insecurity》 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
蛮好的大众哲学读物，比较适合西方读者及西方文明影响到的更广大的人群。在广义基督教的框架内，以现象学分析为方法，抵达了与东方智慧/禅宗相同的结论。因基本未涉哲学或宗教方面的名词，文字相当浅显易读。总结一下的话，不安全感是种现代病，消除不安全感的办法，在于去掉“我执”，认识到除了此时此刻，我们并不拥有其他。这个自我意识里的“我”与我们经验到的感受是同一的。对觉得佛经义理艰深的读者，先看看这本也不错。
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The Wisdom of Insecurity [Book] Douban
author:
Alan W. Watts
publishing house:
Vintage
2011
- 2
“Anyone whose life needs a course correction would be fortunate to be guided by The Wisdom of Insecurity . My life still is, some thirty years later." —Deepak Chopra, from the Introduction
Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published.
We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the future; too much time lamenting the past. We often miss the pleasures of the moment in our anxious efforts to ensure the next moment is as enjoyable. Drawing from Eastern philosophy and religion, Watts argues that it is only by acknowledging what we do not and cannot know, that we can find something truly worth knowing. In order to lead a fulfilling life, one must embrace the present—live fully in the now.
Elegantly reasoned and lucidly written, this philosophical achievement contains all the wisdom and spirit that distinguished Watts’s long career and resonates with us still.
Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published.
We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the future; too much time lamenting the past. We often miss the pleasures of the moment in our anxious efforts to ensure the next moment is as enjoyable. Drawing from Eastern philosophy and religion, Watts argues that it is only by acknowledging what we do not and cannot know, that we can find something truly worth knowing. In order to lead a fulfilling life, one must embrace the present—live fully in the now.
Elegantly reasoned and lucidly written, this philosophical achievement contains all the wisdom and spirit that distinguished Watts’s long career and resonates with us still.