Buddhism AND
Mud Pie Books 2019

The little and usually overlooked word AND lies at the very heart of Buddhist thought and practice, for it links interdependence and abundance. As Gay Watson shows in this elegant and thought-provoking book, appreciating the power of AND not only changes our perspective: it can change our life.

She writes: ‘If a modest mud pie expressed the noble intention of a gift to the Buddha, so may the humble word “AND” express the wonder and richness of Buddhist thought … a brief conjunction which reveals the rich, complex interdependence and impermanence of everything.’.

ATTENTION Beyond Mindfulness
Reaktion Books 2017

Eexploring attention in action through many disciplines and ways of life, from neuroscience to surfing. The book contains interviews with, among others, John Luther Adams, Stephen Batchelor, Susan Blackmore, Guy Claxton, Edmund de Waal, Rick Hanson, Jane Hirshfield, Iain McGilchrist, Wayne McGregor, Garry Fabian Miller, Alice and Peter Oswald, Ruth Ozeki and James Turrell.

A Philosophy of Emptiness
Reaktion Books 2014

Listening to a performance of John Cage's 4'33", you hear, at first, nothing. Yet on listening more closely, something is heard: the coughs of the audience, the shuffling of paper, gentle muttering. What had seemed to be emptiness is instead something more significant, a meditation on the sounds present even within silence. In A Philosophy of Emptiness, Gay Watson reclaims emptiness as a positive, empowering state, an antidote to the obsession with substance and foundation.

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