All Else Is Bondage Non-Volitional Living

by Wei, Wei Wu

• ISBN13: 9781591810230
• ISBN10: 159181023X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-16
• Publisher: Sentient Publications

Summary

These thirty-four powerful essays, poems, and dialogs based on Taoist and Buddhist thought constitute a guide to what the author calls 'non-volitional living' -- the ancient understanding that our efforts to grasp our true nature are futile. While this may sound disheartening, fully comprehending this truth is the key to our liberation. This final volume in the author's output of eight books will make his many fans' collections of his works complete. The pseudonymous author, one of the earliest and most original interpreters of Buddhism, belongs with Reps, Watts, and Kapleau on the bookshelves of serious students of Eastern spiritual thought.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	1	(4)
A Note on the Terms "Volition" and "Causation"	5	(4)
Zero. Enlightenment and the Extinction of "Me"	9	(12)
1. Thought	10	(1)
2. Truth	11	(2)
3. Inconceivable	13	(1)
4. It: On Realising Mind	14	(1)
5. Gone with My Head	15	(1)
6. This Phenomenal Absence	16	(1)
7. Our Buddha-Nature	17	(1)
8. This Which We Are	18	(2)
9. Potential Reality	20	(1)
10. Potential Plenum	21	(2)
11. Potential Being	23	(1)
12. Enfin	24	(3)
II. The Corral	25	(2)
13. Seeking the Seeker	27	(2)
14. Pure Function	29	(2)
15. Ultimate	31	(1)
16. "Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends...."	32	(2)
17. Genesis	34	(1)
II. Metanoesis	34	(1)
18. ?	35	(1)
19. Aeternitas	36	(4)
The Non-Conceptual Universe	36	(1)
II	37	(1)
III. Description of No Time	38	(1)
Description of No-Space	39	(1)
Believing the Buddha	39	(1)
20. All Else Is Bondage	40	(3)
II	41	(2)
21. Ego	43	(2)
22. Hommage a Hui Hai	45	(2)
23. The Answer to the Only Question	47	(2)
24. The Noumenal Answer	49	(6)
25. Non-Entity	55	(2)
II	55	(2)
26. Noumenal Living	57	(1)
27. The Living Dream	58	(4)
II	58	(1)
III	59	(3)
28. Objets Perdus	62	(3)
II	63	(2)
29. Intentions	65	(4)
II	65	(1)
III. Volition	66	(1)
IV. Glad Living	66	(3)
30. Non-Volitional Living	69	(2)
31. Ultimate Illusion	71	(1)
The Illusion of Voluntary Action	71	(1)
32. Tao	72	(1)
33. Elimination of Bondage	73	(1)
34. Personally to You	74