Why Lazarus Laughed The Essential Doctrine, Zen--Advaita--Tantra

by Wei, Wei Wu

• ISBN13: 9781591810117
• ISBN10: 1591810116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Sentient Publications

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The Title of This Book	xiii
Preface	xv
Prolegomenon	xvii
Revaluation of Values: Three False Values	1	(1)
Buddhas for Burning	2	(1)
Man Is a River	3	(1)
Time and Movement Are Two Aspects of a Single Phenomenon	3	(1)
Portrait of a Gentleman	3	(1)
Living Backwards	4	(1)
Policemen Disguising Themselves as Thieves in Order to Catch Themselves	5	(1)
Armchair Travelling	6	(1)
Le Fantoche	6	(1)
Free-will Versus Determinism	7	(1)
Free-will - I	8	(1)
Free-will - II	8	(1)
Freedom - I	9	(1)
Freedom - II	9	(1)
Debris - I	10	(1)
Turning the Other Cheek	11	(1)
Poached Eggs (all of us)	11	(1)
Group Egoism---A Causerie	12	(1)
Travail	13	(1)
Dream Figures. ``As Below...''	14	(1)
The Man in the Moon	14	(1)
You Must Dig Deep to Bury Your Shadow---A Causerie	15	(1)
The Reason	16	(1)
Definitions - I	17	(1)
The Great Joke	18	(1)
Definitions of Non-attachment	19	(1)
Booing the Villain	19	(1)
Cock-a-doodle-do	20	(1)
The Artichoke---Ecstasis	20	(1)
Integration	20	(2)
Debris - II	22	(2)
The Eye	23	(1)
Pure Consciousness	24	(1)
Tao	24	(1)
Transcending Space	25	(1)
Dualism Is a Function of Tridimensionality	26	(1)
Transcending Time	26	(1)
The Dreamer	27	(4)
I	27	(2)
II	29	(1)
III	30	(1)
Uncommon-Sense Regarding Reincarnation	31	(1)
Unicity - I	32	(1)
Unicity - II	32	(1)
Good Morning	33	(3)
The House of Cards	36	(2)
I	36	(1)
II	37	(1)
Dreams and Reality	38	(1)
Free-will - III	39	(1)
La Vida Es Sueno	40	(1)
The One Freedom	41	(2)
Unicity - III	43	(2)
The Bogie	45	(2)
The Three Known Dimensions Are External: The Fourth Is Within the Mind	47	(1)
Free-will - IV	48	(1)
The Present Includes Past and Future	48	(1)
The Communication of Knowledge and the Communication of Understanding	49	(1)
The Spanner	50	(1)
The Column of Smoke	51	(2)
Other Aspects of the Dream We Are Living	53	(2)
To Be or Not To Be	55	(2)
Kittens in Wool	57	(1)
Definitions - II	58	(1)
``L'art Moderne''	59	(1)
Between Ourselves	60	(1)
Questions that Are Not	61	(1)
Democracy - I	61	(2)
Demophily	62	(1)
Mutt and Jeff	63	(1)
``Progress''	64	(1)
Impasse	65	(1)
The Mind Is a Moon	66	(1)
The Day of Pseudo-Glory	67	(1)
Karma: A Suggestion	67	(2)
Free-will - V	68	(1)
Dualism Is Duodimensional	69	(2)
Time	70	(1)
Debris - III	71	(1)
Definitions - III	72	(1)
Us	72	(4)
Let It Grow	76	(1)
The Second Barrier	77	(2)
Spontaneity - I	79	(1)
Will - I	80	(1)
Will - II	80	(1)
Will - III	80	(1)
Seeking for Satori	80	(1)
Spiritual Experience	81	(1)
Suchness	81	(1)
There Is No ``I'' But I---A Causerie	81	(4)
I	81	(2)
II	83	(2)
Life: A Definition	85	(1)
The Opposites and Complementaries	85	(2)
Subject and Object	87	(1)
Free-will - VI	87	(1)
What Am I?	88	(3)
The Fact of the Matter	91	(1)
Definition of Spontaneity	92	(1)
The Last Lap	93	(2)
Enlightenment	95	(2)
Spontaneity - II	96	(1)
Personalised Deity	96	(1)
Transcending Dualism	96	(1)
Show A Leg!	96	(1)
Who Are We?---A Causerie	97	(2)
Absolutely Us	99	(1)
The Old Man in the Corner	99	(1)
Objects in Duality Are Not Subjects in Duality	100	(1)
Existing, Not-Existing, or Not Not-Existing? A Somewhat Tedious Discussion	101	(2)
Reintegrating the Subject	103	(2)
Sense and Non-Sense	105	(5)
The Dharma	110	(4)
Hard Words	114	(1)
Evasion	114	(1)
Metaphysical Analysis of What We Are	115	(1)
A Trilogy	116	(2)
Resolving Our Personal Duality - I	116	(1)
The Process of Release	116	(1)
Infusion	117	(1)
The Reason Why - I	118	(2)
The Reason Why - II	119	(1)
Awakening By Means of the Dream Can Only Be Dreaming that We Are Awake	120	(1)
The Criminal - I	121	(7)
The Criminal - II	128	(3)
Street Scene	131	(1)
Tinkle-Tinkle	131	(1)
Resolving Our Personal Duality - II	132	(2)
Geometrical Representation of Our Multidimensional Reality	134	(1)
The Term ``Enlightenment''	135	(2)
The Essential Explanation - I	137	(1)
Do We Know How to Read?	137	(1)
Is It a Concept?	138	(1)
Quiddity	139	(2)
Reverence---A Causerie	141	(2)
Being	143	(1)
Homo Sapiens	143	(1)
Karuna-Caritas	143	(1)
The Present	144	(1)
The Possibility of Reincarnation	144	(1)
I Am, or the Ultimate Subject	145	(2)
Transcendence---What It Is	147	(1)
The Wrath of God	147	(2)
Transcendence or Neutralisation?	149	(1)
Duality or Dualism?	149	(1)
Personal	150	(1)
The Essential Explanation - II	150	(2)
Reincarnation: Ultimate Observation	152	(3)
The Essential Explanation - III: The Big Black Cloud	155	(2)
Perception and Reality	157	(1)
Direct Cognition	157	(1)
One Half of a Pair---A Causerie	158	(4)
Democracy - II	162	(1)
Ends and Means	162	(1)
Dusting the Parrot	163	(4)
Good-bye, Old Man	167	(1)
Vale	168	(1)
Colophon	169	(36)
Epilogue
Why Lazarus Laughed	171	(2)
What I Am . . .	173	(1)
How I Realise What I Am	173	(1)
I Am Not-I . . .	174	(1)
Questions that Are Not	175	(2)
The Hansom-cab	177	(1)
The Unwanted Host	177	(1)
Straight from the Horse's Mouth	178	(1)
Time and Eternity	178	(1)
Who Is Sane?	178	(1)
Mind and Matter - I	179	(1)
Mind	179	(1)
Phenomenal Reality or the Reality of Phenomena	179	(1)
Faith	180	(1)
I Done It	180	(1)
That We Are	180	(2)
What ``It'' Is	182	(1)
Whole-Mind	183	(1)
Two Is One	183	(3)
Karuna: A Reminder	186	(2)
The Essential Explanation - IV: Reunion of Mind	188	(1)
The Essential Explanation - V	188	(1)
False Premises	188	(2)
Obiter Dicta	189	(1)
Mind and Matter - II: Restatement	190	(2)
Diagram of Mind and Matter	192	(1)
The Mechanism of Psycho-Kinetic Phenomena	192	(2)
Understanding of Zen: The Key that Is The Way	194	(3)
Whole-Mind and the Way	197	(1)
The ``Doctrine'' of Subjectivity	198	(2)
The Binocular Aspect of Subjectivity	200	(1)
Realisation	201	(4)
Envoi	205	(2)
Index	207