Asian Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous

All Else is Bondage: Non-Volutionary Living

Name: All Else is Bondage: Non-Volutionary Living
Author: Wei Wu Wei
ISBN: 9781887472340

by Wei Wu Wei

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Overview

There seems to have been a time at which sentient beings have not escaped from the dungeon of individuality. In the East, liberation was elaborated into a fine art, but it may be doubted whether more people may not have made their escape from solitary confinement outside the organized religions than by means of them. In the West reintegration was sporadic but in recent years it has become a widespread preoccupation. Unfortunately its technical dependence on oriental literature- sometimes translated by scholars whose knowledge of the language was greater than their understanding of the subject-has proved a barrier which rendered full comprehension laborious and exceedingly long. There it appears to be essential that such teaching as may be transmissible shall be given in modern idiom and in accordance with out own processes of thought.

Enlightenment and the Extinction of 'Me'

It: On Realizing the Mind

This Phenomenal Absence

Potential Reality

Potential Being

Seeking the Seeker

Synopsis

In 34 powerful essays, Wei Wu Wei explains Taoist and Buddhist thought in the context of modern experience, using wit and precision to convey profound insight into the nature of existence.