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Thus, in Sh's psychological inteqrehtion of Zen Buddhism, the mort<br />
important aspst of Zen is the pnonal aperim of the imiid, which he calls the<br />
~ ~ W t i m p l ~ , w i t h i l s t € a c h o s M d m u t m o<br />
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dm& and linages, i s m m this ap'kme. This moclwion is confrmvd by the<br />
hctthat~o~mnluxdm~m~ ~ ~ , m d i n g h i s ~ e . " L v * w o f<br />
this, Prrbiah's aiwm of the Beats, 'Had they ooly understood mae fully the Zco<br />
tradition they theyted wi* and inincorpaafed m authentic Zen lineage into thir<br />
trpditim, genuine wruu might have been ach*ved,* is invalid. For Soycn's ahdcntr.<br />
an authenL Zen 1-e w imlmt for an undmhnding of Zen Buddhism. .<br />
ThcoUlerpopular(though~nvEontrovasinl)l~~Zen~inthe<br />
195o's, Ala" Wpth,'' hales SuEulri'S view on Zen. avid Ouy, in his h ck, Watts<br />
" Twmkov, Zen in America, p. 5.<br />
While som of Watts' interp&ons of Zen Buddhism am undwbtcdly<br />
conhwsriPl (roc, for expmpk, David Guy, 'Alan Warn RemnSidCltd' Mwk: The<br />
Budihis1Rrvlm4, No. 1 pall 19941, p. 10:<br />
AtthemrddPhoocenmwhaeIuacdmpwia, my ~mldasbnyabouta<br />
time whm he had lived in K m and died with a Zen monk .... My terher<br />
~withapmchlinc.lthinLrdbecnrrsdingtOOmuch~Watts:Th~cIP8.<br />
mPrrdwithIPII~hm.ThPt~BeMed10u~r*l(ammm0nvimofAlan<br />
w& ha be &'t been quiw authentic. haddl inm Zen from the inside. He<br />
had I-ed his Buddhism from bmka, his new of W o n was fncile, ard he<br />
didn't acknowlrdpc the d work that w pal ofit He hnd bkn a Ma<br />
chnrscfa, an nlm~holic and a womank, nr of the early uprimenma with<br />
psychedelics. Ac had goasn people rmned on the path, but thcy soon nmved<br />
beyond him.<br />
While this my be the casc, thee is still no doubt of Watts' role as a pop^ of (at
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