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Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen--Advaita--Tantra
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by Wei Wu Wei, Wu Wei Wei
Wei Wu Wei
Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen--Advaita--Tantra
214
by Wei Wu Wei, Wu Wei Wei
Wei Wu Wei
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Overview
Why Lazarus Laughed explicates the essential doctrine shared by the traditions of Zen Buddhism, Advaita, and Tantra. Wei Wu Wei has become an underground spiritual favorite whose fans anxiously await each reissued book.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781591810117 |
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Publisher: | Sentient Publications |
Publication date: | 10/01/2003 |
Pages: | 214 |
Product dimensions: | 5.26(w) x 7.72(h) x 0.71(d) |
About the Author
The identity of Wei Wu Wei was not revealed at the time of the publication of his first book. But we now know a few background details that help put the writings into context. He was born in 1895 into a well-established Irish family, was raised on an estate outside Cambridge, England, and went to Oxford. Early in life, he pursued an interest in Egyptology. This was followed by a period of involvement in the arts in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Having exhausted his interest in this field, he turned to philosophy and metaphysics, traveling throughout Asia and spending time at the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi. In 1958, at the age of 63, he saw the first of the Wei Wu Wei titles published. Over the next 16 years, seven more were published, including his final work under the new pseudonym O.O.O. During most of this later period, he maintained a residence with his wife in Monaco. He is believed to have known, among others, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Dr. Hubert Benoit, John Blofeld, Douglas Harding, Arthur Osborne, and Dr. D. T. Suzuki. He died in 1986 at the age of 90.
Table of Contents
The Title of This Book | xiii | |
Preface | xv | |
Prolegomenon | xvii | |
1. | Revaluation of Values: Three False Values | 1 |
2. | Buddhas for Burning | 2 |
3. | Man Is a River | 3 |
4. | Time and Movement Are Two Aspects of a Single Phenomenon | 3 |
Portrait of a Gentleman | 3 | |
5. | Living Backwards | 4 |
6. | Policemen Disguising Themselves as Thieves in Order to Catch Themselves | 5 |
Armchair Travelling | 6 | |
7. | Le Fantoche | 6 |
8. | Free-will Versus Determinism | 7 |
9. | Free-will - I | 8 |
Free-will - II | 8 | |
10. | Freedom - I | 9 |
Freedom - II | 9 | |
11. | Debris - I | 10 |
12. | Turning the Other Cheek | 11 |
Poached Eggs (all of us) | 11 | |
13. | Group Egoism--A Causerie | 12 |
14. | Travail | 13 |
Dream Figures. "As Below..." | 14 | |
15. | The Man in the Moon | 14 |
16. | You Must Dig Deep to Bury Your Shadow--A Causerie | 15 |
17. | The Reason | 16 |
18. | Definitions - I | 17 |
19. | The Great Joke | 18 |
20. | Definitions of Non-attachment | 19 |
21. | Booing the Villain | 19 |
Cock-a-doodle-do | 20 | |
The Artichoke--Ecstasis | 20 | |
22. | Integration | 20 |
23. | Debris - II | 22 |
The Eye | 23 | |
24. | Pure Consciousness | 24 |
Tao | 24 | |
25. | Transcending Space | 25 |
Dualism Is a Function of Tridimensionality | 26 | |
26. | Transcending Time | 26 |
27. | The Dreamer | 27 |
I27 | ||
II29 | ||
III30 | ||
28. | Uncommon-Sense Regarding Reincarnation | 31 |
29. | Unicity - I | 32 |
Unicity - II | 32 | |
30. | Good Morning | 33 |
31. | The House of Cards | 36 |
I36 | ||
II37 | ||
32. | Dreams and Reality | 38 |
33. | Free-will - III | 39 |
34. | La Vida Es Sueno | 40 |
35. | The One Freedom | 41 |
36. | Unicity - III | 43 |
37. | The Bogie | 45 |
38. | The Three Known Dimensions Are External: The Fourth Is Within the Mind | 47 |
Free-will - IV | 48 | |
39. | The Present Includes Past and Future | 48 |
40. | The Communication of Knowledge and the Communication of Understanding | 49 |
41. | The Spanner | 50 |
42. | The Column of Smoke | 51 |
43. | Other Aspects of the Dream We Are Living | 53 |
44. | To Be or Not To Be | 55 |
45. | Kittens in Wool | 57 |
46. | Definitions - II | 58 |
47. | "L'art Moderne" | 59 |
48. | Between Ourselves | 60 |
Questions that Are Not | 61 | |
49. | Democracy - I | 61 |
Demophily | 62 | |
50. | Mutt and Jeff | 63 |
51. | "Progress" | 64 |
52. | Impasse | 65 |
53. | The Mind Is a Moon | 66 |
The Day of Pseudo-Glory | 67 | |
54. | Karma: A Suggestion | 67 |
Free-will - V | 68 | |
55. | Dualism Is Duodimensional | 69 |
Time | 70 | |
56. | Debris - III | 71 |
Definitions - III | 72 | |
57. | Us | 72 |
58. | Let It Grow | 76 |
59. | The Second Barrier | 77 |
60. | Spontaneity - I | 79 |
61. | Will - I | 80 |
Will - II | 80 | |
Will - III | 80 | |
62. | Seeking for Satori | 80 |
Spiritual Experience | 81 | |
Suchness | 81 | |
63. | There Is No "I" But I--A Causerie | 81 |
I81 | ||
II83 | ||
64. | Life: A Definition | 85 |
65. | The Opposites and Complementaries | 85 |
66. | Subject and Object | 87 |
67. | Free-will - VI | 87 |
68. | What Am I? | 88 |
69. | The Fact of the Matter | 91 |
70. | Definition of Spontaneity | 92 |
71. | The Last Lap | 93 |
72. | Enlightenment | 95 |
Spontaneity - II | 96 | |
Personalised Deity | 96 | |
Transcending Dualism | 96 | |
Show A Leg! | 96 | |
73. | Who Are We?--A Causerie | 97 |
74. | Absolutely Us | 99 |
The Old Man in the Corner | 99 | |
75. | Objects in Duality Are Not Subjects in Duality | 100 |
76. | Existing, Not-Existing, or Not Not-Existing? A Somewhat Tedious Discussion | 101 |
77. | Reintegrating the Subject | 103 |
78. | Sense and Non-Sense | 105 |
79. | The Dharma | 110 |
80. | Hard Words | 114 |
Evasion | 114 | |
81. | Metaphysical Analysis of What We Are | 115 |
82. | A Trilogy | 116 |
1. | Resolving Our Personal Duality - I | 116 |
2. | The Process of Release | 116 |
3. | Infusion | 117 |
83. | The Reason Why - I | 118 |
The Reason Why - II | 119 | |
84. | Awakening By Means of the Dream Can Only Be Dreaming that We Are Awake | 120 |
85. | The Criminal - I | 121 |
86. | The Criminal - II | 128 |
87. | Street Scene | 131 |
Tinkle-Tinkle | 131 | |
88. | Resolving Our Personal Duality - II | 132 |
89. | Geometrical Representation of Our Multidimensional Reality | 134 |
90. | The Term "Enlightenment" | 135 |
91. | The Essential Explanation - I | 137 |
92. | Do We Know How to Read? | 137 |
93. | Is It a Concept? | 138 |
94. | Quiddity | 139 |
95. | Reverence--A Causerie | 141 |
96. | Being | 143 |
Homo Sapiens | 143 | |
Karuna-Caritas | 143 | |
The Present | 144 | |
97. | The Possibility of Reincarnation | 144 |
98. | I Am, or the Ultimate Subject | 145 |
99. | Transcendence--What It Is | 147 |
100. | The Wrath of God | 147 |
101. | Transcendence or Neutralisation? | 149 |
102. | Duality or Dualism? | 149 |
Personal | 150 | |
103. | The Essential Explanation - II | 150 |
104. | Reincarnation: Ultimate Observation | 152 |
105. | The Essential Explanation - III: The Big Black Cloud | 155 |
106. | Perception and Reality | 157 |
Direct Cognition | 157 | |
107. | One Half of a Pair--A Causerie | 158 |
108. | Democracy - II | 162 |
Ends and Means | 162 | |
109. | Dusting the Parrot | 163 |
110. | Good-bye, Old Man | 167 |
111. | Vale | 168 |
Colophon | 169 | |
Epilogue | ||
1. | Why Lazarus Laughed | 171 |
2. | What I Am ... | 173 |
How I Realise What I Am | 173 | |
3. | I Am Not-I ... | 174 |
4. | Questions that Are Not | 175 |
5. | The Hansom-cab | 177 |
The Unwanted Host | 177 | |
Straight from the Horse's Mouth | 178 | |
6. | Time and Eternity | 178 |
Who Is Sane? | 178 | |
Mind and Matter - I | 179 | |
Mind | 179 | |
7. | Phenomenal Reality or the Reality of Phenomena | 179 |
Faith | 180 | |
I Done It | 180 | |
8. | That We Are | 180 |
9. | What "It" Is | 182 |
10. | Whole-Mind | 183 |
11. | Two Is One | 183 |
12. | Karuna: A Reminder | 186 |
13. | The Essential Explanation - IV: Reunion of Mind | 188 |
The Essential Explanation - V | 188 | |
14. | False Premises | 188 |
Obiter Dicta | 189 | |
15. | Mind and Matter - II: Restatement | 190 |
Diagram of Mind and Matter | 192 | |
16. | The Mechanism of Psycho-Kinetic Phenomena | 192 |
17. | Understanding of Zen: The Key that Is The Way | 194 |
18. | Whole-Mind and the Way | 197 |
19. | The "Doctrine" of Subjectivity | 198 |
20. | The Binocular Aspect of Subjectivity | 200 |
21. | Realisation | 201 |
Envoi | 205 | |
Index | 207 |
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