hey! Alan Watts was an incorrigible drunk and womanizer but he's pretty cool and just the right level of blasphemous for my tastes
again, I just don't see it as an insult. Was Bodhidarma insulting Zong Chi? I interpret it as a comment about the nature of practice. Watts would probably say of himself that he only had Zen Skin.
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In the case of Bodhidharma, we've got an advanced practitioner choosing his successor among very advanced practitioners. A crucial moment in Zen. In the case of Watts and Kerouac it was a guy in a magazine talking smack using Buddhist jargon.
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Dan, it is perfectly okay if you like Watts. Lots of people do. I just don't, and I'm not going to. Did he lie in his lectures? No. Was he a bad man? Not particularly. Was he a jerk? That's subjective. I say yes, but it's not holy writ.
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