--- product_id: 3973419 title: "This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience" price: "$29.70" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/3973419-this-is-it-and-other-essays-on-zen-and-spiritual store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience **Price:** $29.70 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience - **How much does it cost?** $29.70 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/3973419-this-is-it-and-other-essays-on-zen-and-spiritual) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience [Watts, Alan] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience Review: Short but Good - _This Is It_ by Alan Watts is a good solid work, but is too short to provide the rigorous instruction needed to achieve any appreciable amount of enlightenment or Zen Satori. That said, it is a wonderful, enjoyable, and profound book page for page, and is essential to round out your collection of Alan Watts' more recent and well-known works. _This Is It_ is also perfect for someone who does not want a megadose of strenuous philosophy and theology; it is ideal for those who are new to psychological-religious non-fiction, or who do not have the time to hack through some kind of magnum-opus epic of philosophy. If, however, you want to read one of the more comprehensive books by Alan Watts, I would recommend _Psychotherapy East and West_, which is his best work. Review: Awesome yet somewhat depressing book. - Everything by Watts is brilliant. This booklet is a case both for and against the practice of meditation, written is Watt's characteristic self-contradictory way. He writes of the benefits of stilling the mind, and yet goes on to state that the only reason for such practice is that one happens to enjoy doing it, just like one may happen to enjoy listening to music. He says one eventually reaches the realization that spiritual or religious practices of any kind are unnecessary, because there is no way for you physical organism to get away from what it truly is, and the ego is merely a delusion that has no power whatsoever to affect any change in anything. This one kind of left me scratching my head. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #107,619 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #204 in Philosophy Movements (Books) #412 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books) #644 in Meditation (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 524 Reviews | ## Images ![This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71wM+Oo0Y2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Short but Good *by R***E on May 13, 2003* _This Is It_ by Alan Watts is a good solid work, but is too short to provide the rigorous instruction needed to achieve any appreciable amount of enlightenment or Zen Satori. That said, it is a wonderful, enjoyable, and profound book page for page, and is essential to round out your collection of Alan Watts' more recent and well-known works. _This Is It_ is also perfect for someone who does not want a megadose of strenuous philosophy and theology; it is ideal for those who are new to psychological-religious non-fiction, or who do not have the time to hack through some kind of magnum-opus epic of philosophy. If, however, you want to read one of the more comprehensive books by Alan Watts, I would recommend _Psychotherapy East and West_, which is his best work. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome yet somewhat depressing book. *by M***N on May 20, 2016* Everything by Watts is brilliant. This booklet is a case both for and against the practice of meditation, written is Watt's characteristic self-contradictory way. He writes of the benefits of stilling the mind, and yet goes on to state that the only reason for such practice is that one happens to enjoy doing it, just like one may happen to enjoy listening to music. He says one eventually reaches the realization that spiritual or religious practices of any kind are unnecessary, because there is no way for you physical organism to get away from what it truly is, and the ego is merely a delusion that has no power whatsoever to affect any change in anything. This one kind of left me scratching my head. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I am it *by D***E on July 17, 2011* I am an avid follower of the spacial concepts presented by "Stephen Hawking," (Cosmologist, Physicist - see Discovery Channel version of "Into the Universe" - DVD). So for me, Alan Watts makes a great deal of sense. Each book from this deceased author (circa 1940's - 1970's), has been an inspiration in Eastern thought. While one must consider our immediate Western world, with all of it's buildings and bridges, Alan Watts takes us down another path. The path of calmness and reflection. For me, the author lends value and understanding to a complicated subject. I can still live and work in a Westernized medium, while applying to my own life, a calming Eastern philosophy that makes me realize that "stress," is simply "fear," and that fear is from the unknown. Once we get that, and this book along with other works makes that perfectly clear. 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