/lit/ - Literature

>>12662953
i've honestly never been a big Watts fan personally altho i like his whole project, and i love Eastern mysticism. Eugen Herrigel has some interesting stuff to say about the East also. you can read DT Suzuki or other guys too. if you like the basic ideas of Zen and the Tao et al it probably won't matter to you too much who you get them from. if you want to get really seriously into it later on you can be more nitpicky i suppose. Heidegger always struck me as being a very Zen-compatible guy (as his bromance with DT Suzuki suggests). Schopenhauer seems to have preferred the Upanishads but i always found the Chinese and Japanese mysticism more appealing than the Indian stuff, not sure why.

anyways, best advice is to read him for yourself and decide later.

>>12662960
interesting thing about him, he actually was a disciple of Osho's too for a bit. he says somewhere he wanted to basically write Being and Space like a sequel to B&T. Sloterdijk's way way cool