Open Secret

by Wei, Wei Wu

• ISBN13: 9781591810148
• ISBN10: 1591810140
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-24
• Publisher: Sentient Publications

Summary

An essential work by the mysterious Wei Wu Wei.

Author Biography

Between the Years 1958 and 1974, a series of books appeared that were attributed to the mysterious Wei Wu Wei, who joined Paul Reps, Alan Watts, and Philip Kapleau as one of the earliest and most profound interpreters of Buddhism

Table of Contents

Inscription	p. v
To Each Reader	p. vi
Preface	p. xiii
Time and Space	p. 2
The Pseudo-Problem of "Suffering"	p. 3
The Will-Inference	p. 4
	p. 4
Volition	p. 4
Definition of Volition	p. 5
Observations	p. 6
Saying It Simply	p. 7
	p. 7
	p. 10
Geometrically Regarded	p. 11
"I Am Not, but the Universe Is My Self"	p. 13
Logical Analysis of This Intuition	p. 13
Gone with the Mind	p. 15
The Fasting of the Mind	p. 16
Aren't We All? ...	p. 17
	p. 17
Who Done It?	p. 17
Utter Absence as Us	p. 18
Echoes - I	p. 20
The Positive Expression	p. 21
Again	p. 21
Definition of "Noumenal Living"	p. 22
Hara-Kiri	p. 22
Inseeing	p. 22
The Cosmic Continuum	p. 23
Past, Present and Future	p. 24
Who Is There to Be Enlightened?	p. 24
Dreamer, Awake!	p. 25
Tathata	p. 26
Seeing	p. 26
	p. 26
Once More	p. 27
The Logic beyond Logic	p. 27
Is the Man-in-the-Moon in the Puddle?	p. 29
Suggestions	p. 30
Unborn and Undead	p. 31
Comedy	p. 31
Comment	p. 31
The Mechanism of Appearance (As It May Be Conceived)	p. 32
Hommage a Hui Neng	p. 34
Replacement of Responsibility	p. 34
To Hell with It All!	p. 34
Echoes - II	p. 35
All Said and Done	p. 37
The Logic of Non-Logic	p. 40
The Meaning of "Noumenon"	p. 40
Living Without Tears	p. 41
Why We Cannot Be	p. 43
Transcendence and Immanence	p. 43
Integral Seeing	p. 44
Rumours - I	p. 45
In Both Kinds of Dream	p. 45
"Alive, Alive-O"	p. 47
They Said It Was Simple	p. 48
The Disappearance of Subject	p. 50
Let's Talk It Over!	p. 50
Non-objective Relation	p. 53
Self-portrait	p. 53
Portrait of You	p. 53
"Where, Oh Where? ..."	p. 54
	p. 54
	p. 55
Quod Erat Demonstrandum	p. 57
I-I: This Universe Which We Are	p. 57
As Long As ...	p. 58
Practice? By Whom, on What?	p. 59
Speaking of God ...	p. 60
	p. 60
	p. 60
Rumours - II	p. 62
You	p. 62
Practice	p. 63
The Heart Sutra
Concerning the "Heart Sutra"	p. 66
	p. 66
	p. 70
A Rendering of the Sutra of the Divine Inseeing Mind	p. 72
In Technical Terms - I	p. 78
The Burden of the Heart Sutra - I	p. 81
The Burden of the Heart Sutra - II	p. 82
The Burden of the Heart Sutra - III	p. 83
The Burden of the Heart Sutra - IV	p. 85
The Burden of the Heart Sutra - V	p. 87
Bodhisattvic Vision	p. 89
Omnipresence	p. 91
The Resolution of Duality	p. 93
Shadows	p. 94
Seeing, Seeing, Seeing ...	p. 95
The Illusion of Enlightenment	p. 96
Grammatically Speaking	p. 96
Whose Mind?	p. 99
In Technical Terms - II	p. 100
The Apparent Mystery	p. 100
I Am--but There Is No "I"	p. 101
Definition of Non-objective Relation	p. 101
Saying It Even More Simply	p. 101
Disillusion	p. 103
Identity	p. 103
Let Us Do This ...	p. 104
Seeing It Simply	p. 109
The Essential Identity	p. 113
	p. 113
	p. 115
Observations Concerning Causation	p. 116
Only That Which Is Objective Can Be Bound	p. 116
For Sile	p. 119
	p. 119
	p. 120
The Golden Key	p. 121
This and That	p. 122
Who?	p. 123
Presence and Absence	p. 125
Self and Other	p. 127
An I-Concept, Analytically	p. 128
Causality or Indeterminacy?	p. 129
Aria	p. 131
Moderato	p. 131
Forte	p. 132
Fortissimo	p. 132
Pseudo-Problems	p. 133
	p. 133
Again	p. 134
The Quest	p. 135
Un-lost and Un-findable	p. 136
The Ultimate Symbol	p. 137
Enlightenment as Disappearance of Nescience	p. 139
Apperceiving	p. 140
Identity of Opposites	p. 140
In Fine	p. 142
Colophon: All It Is	p. 143
Dialogues
The Pure Land	p. 146
Indeterminacy	p. 149
As Far as I Am Concerned	p. 153
The Monkey's Banana	p. 157
Custard-Pies	p. 163
The Question	p. 168
Bodhisattvas and All	p. 169
Seeing	p. 173
Non-Objective Relation	p. 177
Words That Mean What They Say	p. 181
Who Was the Buddha?	p. 188
Index	p. 197
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