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

Zen and the Beat Way brings together Alan Watts’s essays on Zen, everyday life and the Beat-era search for a less conventional way of living. Selections include “The Beat Way of Life,” “Return to the Forest” and “The Democratization of Buddhism.”

The collection connects spiritual inquiry with countercultural questions about education, society and individual understanding. For readers curious about the meeting of Zen ideas and American Beat culture.