What is Zen

published

2011-07-03

rating

3

This was a really short little book that talks about some of the basic concepts in Zen. It is the type of book that doesn't try to be comprehensive or organized, but just picks and chooses a few of the more interesting things to discuss. Watts does a good job of making Zen more understandable to Western audiences who are more logically-oriented. He still believes a lot of the illogical things in Buddhism, but he has the ability to talk about them in a semi-understandable way.