THE 'WEI WU WEI' ARCHIVES




ASK THE AWAKENED: The Negative Way

WEI WU WEI

(© Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 1963)

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Special note: A new edition of this work is now available from Sentient Publications here.)

CONTENTS:

DEDICATION AND BENEDICTION
INTRODUCTION

PART I: THE CROSSROADS

1. THE HARLEQUINADE
2. ASK THE AWAKENED
3. THE CROSS-ROADS OF TIME AND SPACE
4. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED
5. THAT I AM
6. ENLIGHTENMENT BY NON-ACTION
... SERVICE
7. SILENCE. I
8. REFLECTIONS
9. THE READJUSTMENT
10. SILENCE. 2
11. THE UNIVERSAL PRESENCE
12. VERITY
13. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH
14. I AM NOT
15. PERCEPTION
.... THISNESS
.... REALITY IS NECESSARILY INTEMPORAL
.... ISNESS
.... MILAREPA TOO
16. VERTICAL VISION. 1
17. GOLDEN SILENCE
18. DÉBRIS

PART II: THE NEGATIVE WAY

19. NE PLUS ULTRA
20. WHY LAZARUS IS STILL LAUGHING ...
21. THE ILLUMINATING VISION
22. IRREVERENCE
23. BAUBLES OF THE MIND (Sutras and the Void)
24. ULTIMATE AND UNCONDITIONED REALITY IS NEGATIVE AND VOID
25. NOTHING IN SOMETHING
.... SOMETHING IN NOTHING
.... THAT WHICH IS NOT. 1
.... I AM NOT
26. THE ULTIMATE UNDERSTANDING
.... THE REALISATION OF THE VOID
27. BECAUSE IT IS NOT...
28. NÉANT
29. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE ALSO IS NEGATIVE
30. DISCRIMINATION
31. A.B.C. 1: THE CULPRIT
32. A.B.C. 2: TRANSVALUATION OF VALUES
33. A.B.C. 3: THE BUDDHA'S FORMULA IN RELATIVE REALITY
34. THE BUDDHA, ORIGINAL, OR SELF NATURE
35. ALTER-EGOISM. A Causerie
36. GLIMPSES OF THE BODHI-MIND?
37. LOVE: ANTIDOTE. Hard Words
38. THE MYTH OF 'MANKIND'. 1
39. THE MYTH OF 'MANKIND'. 2
40. WHEN THE DREAMER AWAKES
41. EXPLANATIONS. 1
.... NON-DUALITY
42. DEBUNKING THE RELATIVE
43. THE GATEWAY
44. EXPLANATIONS. 2
45. EXPLANATIONS. 3: NON-REALITY
46. EXPLANATIONS. 4: RELATIVE REALITY
47. ELIMINATION
48. THE ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING
.... BECOMING A BAMBOO
49. THE SHRINE OF SUBJECTIVITY
.... VISTA
50. COLLOQUIALLY. 1: 'NEITHER' NOT 'BOTH': THE REASON WHY
51. COLLOQUIALLY. 2: THE SKANDHAS
52. SIDELIGHTS ON SOME KO-ANS. 1
53. SIDELIGHTS ON SOME KO-ANS. 2
54. SIDELIGHTS ON SOME KO-ANS. 3
55. SIDELIGHTS ON SOME KO-ANS. 4
56. VOID AS THE NON-APPARENT UNIVERSE
57. THE KEY OF THE GATELESS GATE; THE END OF THE NEGATIVE WAY
58. HOORAH!
59. DÉBRIS

PART III: ABSOLUTE ABSENCE

60. TESTAMENTARY
61. A PINK ELEPHANT?
62. NO-MIND, NO-MIRROR
63. CRACKING THE NUT
64. THIS WORLD OF 'OURS'
65. NETI NETI
66. TOWARDS UNITARY THINKING
67. SYLLOGISTICALLY
68. FORM AND VOID
.... WHERE IS REALITY?
69. 'NO-MIND SPEAKING'
70. THE MECHANISM OF DUALITY
71. THE TRANSMISSION OF TRUTH
.... THE EXPRESSION OF TRUTH
72. LOOKING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
.... JUDGEMENTS
73. RESTATEMENT
.... THE MARX BROS.
74. THE TRUE SENSE OF 'INTUITION'
75. THE BUDDHA'S FORMULA IN BRIEF
.... THE BUDDHA'S FORMULA IN FULL
76. ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING IT
.... ANOTHER WAY OF DOING IT
77. BODHI, SVAHA!
78. DÉBRIS: SPACE AND TIME
79. VERTICAL 'VISION'. 2
80. ABSOLUTE ABSENCE
81. ABSOLUTE PRESENCE
82. CHIH
83. THE WAVE-MECHANISM SYMBOL OF TRANSMIGRATION
84. SCIENCE AND SODA
85. MISES AU POINT
86. BIRTH-AND-DEATH: THE FACTS
87. THE FANTASY OF ENLIGHTENMENT
88. THAT WHICH IS NOT. 2
89. ABSENCE, AS DEFINED BY SHEN HUI
90. EX CATHEDRA
91. DHYANA
92. ADIEU
COLOPHON

EPILOGUE

93. ASPECTS OF THE DOCTRINE OF BODHIDHARMA AS DEVELOPED BY THE PATRIARCHS
94. MAN AND NATURE
95. INSEEING
96. VERTICAL LIVING
97. 'THE WAY OF THE WATER'
..... FREEWILL
98. THE ILLUSION OF BEING
99. TIME, AND TIME AGAIN
100. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
101. THE NATURE OF PHENOMENA
102. PRINCIPAL AND FUNCTION
103. A TIP FOR TEACHERS
104. GATEAUX DES ROIS
105. THE 'ABIDING-PLACE'
106. AWAKENING
...... BOX AND COX
...... SATORI HAS NO OBJECTIVE EXISTENCE
107. THE TRUE AND THE FALSE NEGATIVE
108. STILL LIFE
109. SUBJECTIVE AWARENESS
...... ARTICULATION 1 AND 2
...... WU NIEN
110. THIS
111. THIS WHICH IS ...
112. THE MEANING OF PURE MIND
113. A CLEAN SWEEP
114. ACCORDING TO THE SUPREME VEHICLE
...... ACCORDING TO VEDANTA
...... ACCORDING TO SUFISM
A NOTE ON THE DIAMOND SUTRA
LET ME REMIND YOU

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