THE 'WEI WU WEI' ARCHIVES




THE TENTH MAN

THE GREAT JOKE

(which made Lazarus laugh)

WEI WU WEI

(© Hong Kong University Press, 1966. Repr. 1967, 1971.)

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

CONTENTS:

FOREWORD

PART I. IDENTITY

1. Metanoesis. I and II
2. Identity of Dualism and Non-dualism
3. What is Mind? I and II
4. What is Mind? III
5. Every Psyche has her Soma
6. Closing in. I - Prajna
7. Closing in. II - Finding the Seeker
8. Closing in. III - Identity
9. When Mind fasts
...Dialectically
10. Apperceiving the Identity of all Opposites
11. Analytical. I
12. Analytical. II
13. Analytical. III
14. Light on the Subject
...Non-dialectically
15. Prajna and the Sage
16. How? Who?
17. Presence and Absence
...What-we-are
18. Non-Conceptuality
19. Boomerang - A Dialogue
20. Bewildering Bits and Painful Pieces. I

PART II. SELF AND OTHER

21. The Big Joke. I, II, and III
22. Prajna
23. The Loud Laugh
24. Completion
25. 'This' - and All That
26. Without Tears
27. When the Tail Catches the Kitten - A Dialogue
28. The Only Freedom
29. What Are We?
30. Inbeing
31. The Cube-root of Zero. I, II, and III
32. The Poor Joke
33. The Dungeon
34. Here and Now
35. The Essential Query
36. Abolition of Opposites
37. Essential Definition
38. Thought: What is it?
39. Wu Nien - Wu Wei
40. Bewildering Bits and Painful Pieces. II

PART III. NON-OBJECTIVE RELATION

41. Thought as Action
42. 'Reincarnation' Again
43. Non-Objective Relation - A Dialogue
44. La Vida es Sueño
45. My Dear Fellow!
46. Self-naughting - A Dialogue
47. Identity. II
48. Gravity
49. Mr and Mrs Space-time
50. Ostriches, All Ostriches - A Dialogue
51. Kittens, All Kittens - A Dialogue
52. Liberation from Self
53. Meditation (Analytical)
54. Ethics and All That
55. Enlightenment - A Dialogue
56. One May Doubt
57. Let Us Be Precise
58. Observations Concerning Rebirth
59. Vanity - A Dialogue
60. Bewildering Bits and Painful Pieces. III

PART IV. TIME

61. Definitions
62. The Low-down on Time
63. 'I am This, Here, Now!'
64. Analysis of Intemporality
65. Definition of Noumenon
66. Discussing Intemporality
67. Constitution of Phenomena
68. The Nature of the Cosmos
69. T.N.T. - A Dialogue
70. Father Time
71. 'Psychological Time'
72. What is Time?
73. Ipse Dixit
74. The Nature of Phenomena
75. The Pseudo-Mystery of Time
76. In Statu Aeternitatis
77. Now - A Dialogue
78. What Endures?
79. Notes on Time
80. Bewildering Bits and Painful Pieces. IV

PART V. ABSENCE

81. The 'Tenth Man' Story
82. Source-Inconceivable
83. Little Pigs
84. I Am Only 'I' in Time
85. Inside the Within
86. Love - and All That
87. It May Be Suggested
88. Who are You? - A Dialogue
89. Time and Duration
90. Reality, What it is Said to Be
91. As Science Sees It
92. The First and Last Illusion - A Dialogue
93. We Speaking - Phenomenally
94. I Speaking - Noumenally
95. Absence
96. Death
97. The Bubble of Bondage. Isness.
98. Absolute Absence - A Dialogue
99. A Dieu
100. Bewildering Bits and Painful Pieces. V
      Colophon

APPENDIX: TECHNICAL TERMS

I.    Terminology
II.   Semantically Speaking
III. Zen
IV.  Advice. Tao
V.    Why Dhyana and Prajna are not Two
VI.   Bewildering Bits and Painful Pieces. VI

INDEX

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