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Author Alan Watts enlightens readers through his interpretation of Zen in his book Zen The Supreme Experience. Watts simplifies Zen, a religion already focused on simplicity, to a point of utter understanding. Zen is expressed as a simple do nothing approach. An approach in which one may be at one with themselves and then experiences will find them. Watts encourages the reader to be satisfied with the now of life. Only when a pure satisfaction with no thing is attained do we have power over ourselves.
Zen becomes a point of view or a lifestyle. Watts presents the idea that words are only meaningful in contrast to their antonyms. When one is hurt by a word one defines it as the opposite of something positive. The only reason this action has occurred is because the person has put the power within the word, defining itself and it's opposite. The opposite has more power within the situation. The Zen path would be to be intellectually mature and disciplined, to see the now of the......

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