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

by Wei Wu Wei, Wu Wei Wei

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591810117
Publisher:	Sentient Publications
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.26(w) x 7.72(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

The identity of Wei Wu Wei was not revealed at the time of the publication of his first book. But we now know a few background details that help put the writings into context. He was born in 1895 into a well-established Irish family, was raised on an estate outside Cambridge, England, and went to Oxford. Early in life, he pursued an interest in Egyptology. This was followed by a period of involvement in the arts in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Having exhausted his interest in this field, he turned to philosophy and metaphysics, traveling throughout Asia and spending time at the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi. In 1958, at the age of 63, he saw the first of the Wei Wu Wei titles published. Over the next 16 years, seven more were published, including his final work under the new pseudonym O.O.O. During most of this later period, he maintained a residence with his wife in Monaco. He is believed to have known, among others, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Dr. Hubert Benoit, John Blofeld, Douglas Harding, Arthur Osborne, and Dr. D. T. Suzuki. He died in 1986 at the age of 90.

Table of Contents

	The Title of This Book	xiii
	Preface	xv
	Prolegomenon	xvii
1.	Revaluation of Values: Three False Values	1
2.	Buddhas for Burning	2
3.	Man Is a River	3
4.	Time and Movement Are Two Aspects of a Single Phenomenon	3
	Portrait of a Gentleman	3
5.	Living Backwards	4
6.	Policemen Disguising Themselves as Thieves in Order to Catch Themselves	5
	Armchair Travelling	6
7.	Le Fantoche	6
8.	Free-will Versus Determinism	7
9.	Free-will - I	8
	Free-will - II	8
10.	Freedom - I	9
	Freedom - II	9
11.	Debris - I	10
12.	Turning the Other Cheek	11
	Poached Eggs (all of us)	11
13.	Group Egoism--A Causerie	12
14.	Travail	13
	Dream Figures. "As Below..."	14
15.	The Man in the Moon	14
16.	You Must Dig Deep to Bury Your Shadow--A Causerie	15
17.	The Reason	16
18.	Definitions - I	17
19.	The Great Joke	18
20.	Definitions of Non-attachment	19
21.	Booing the Villain	19
	Cock-a-doodle-do	20
	The Artichoke--Ecstasis	20
22.	Integration	20
23.	Debris - II	22
	The Eye	23
24.	Pure Consciousness	24
	Tao	24
25.	Transcending Space	25
	Dualism Is a Function of Tridimensionality	26
26.	Transcending Time	26
27.	The Dreamer	27
I27
II29
III30
28.	Uncommon-Sense Regarding Reincarnation	31
29.	Unicity - I	32
	Unicity - II	32
30.	Good Morning	33
31.	The House of Cards	36
I36
II37
32.	Dreams and Reality	38
33.	Free-will - III	39
34.	La Vida Es Sueno	40
35.	The One Freedom	41
36.	Unicity - III	43
37.	The Bogie	45
38.	The Three Known Dimensions Are External: The Fourth Is Within the Mind	47
	Free-will - IV	48
39.	The Present Includes Past and Future	48
40.	The Communication of Knowledge and the Communication of Understanding	49
41.	The Spanner	50
42.	The Column of Smoke	51
43.	Other Aspects of the Dream We Are Living	53
44.	To Be or Not To Be	55
45.	Kittens in Wool	57
46.	Definitions - II	58
47.	"L'art Moderne"	59
48.	Between Ourselves	60
	Questions that Are Not	61
49.	Democracy - I	61
	Demophily	62
50.	Mutt and Jeff	63
51.	"Progress"	64
52.	Impasse	65
53.	The Mind Is a Moon	66
	The Day of Pseudo-Glory	67
54.	Karma: A Suggestion	67
	Free-will - V	68
55.	Dualism Is Duodimensional	69
	Time	70
56.	Debris - III	71
	Definitions - III	72
57.	Us	72
58.	Let It Grow	76
59.	The Second Barrier	77
60.	Spontaneity - I	79
61.	Will - I	80
	Will - II	80
	Will - III	80
62.	Seeking for Satori	80
	Spiritual Experience	81
	Suchness	81
63.	There Is No "I" But I--A Causerie	81
I81
II83
64.	Life: A Definition	85
65.	The Opposites and Complementaries	85
66.	Subject and Object	87
67.	Free-will - VI	87
68.	What Am I?	88
69.	The Fact of the Matter	91
70.	Definition of Spontaneity	92
71.	The Last Lap	93
72.	Enlightenment	95
	Spontaneity - II	96
	Personalised Deity	96
	Transcending Dualism	96
	Show A Leg!	96
73.	Who Are We?--A Causerie	97
74.	Absolutely Us	99
	The Old Man in the Corner	99
75.	Objects in Duality Are Not Subjects in Duality	100
76.	Existing, Not-Existing, or Not Not-Existing? A Somewhat Tedious Discussion	101
77.	Reintegrating the Subject	103
78.	Sense and Non-Sense	105
79.	The Dharma	110
80.	Hard Words	114
	Evasion	114
81.	Metaphysical Analysis of What We Are	115
82.	A Trilogy	116
1.	Resolving Our Personal Duality - I	116
2.	The Process of Release	116
3.	Infusion	117
83.	The Reason Why - I	118
	The Reason Why - II	119
84.	Awakening By Means of the Dream Can Only Be Dreaming that We Are Awake	120
85.	The Criminal - I	121
86.	The Criminal - II	128
87.	Street Scene	131
	Tinkle-Tinkle	131
88.	Resolving Our Personal Duality - II	132
89.	Geometrical Representation of Our Multidimensional Reality	134
90.	The Term "Enlightenment"	135
91.	The Essential Explanation - I	137
92.	Do We Know How to Read?	137
93.	Is It a Concept?	138
94.	Quiddity	139
95.	Reverence--A Causerie	141
96.	Being	143
	Homo Sapiens	143
	Karuna-Caritas	143
	The Present	144
97.	The Possibility of Reincarnation	144
98.	I Am, or the Ultimate Subject	145
99.	Transcendence--What It Is	147
100.	The Wrath of God	147
101.	Transcendence or Neutralisation?	149
102.	Duality or Dualism?	149
	Personal	150
103.	The Essential Explanation - II	150
104.	Reincarnation: Ultimate Observation	152
105.	The Essential Explanation - III: The Big Black Cloud	155
106.	Perception and Reality	157
	Direct Cognition	157
107.	One Half of a Pair--A Causerie	158
108.	Democracy - II	162
	Ends and Means	162
109.	Dusting the Parrot	163
110.	Good-bye, Old Man	167
111.	Vale	168
	Colophon	169
	Epilogue
1.	Why Lazarus Laughed	171
2.	What I Am ...	173
	How I Realise What I Am	173
3.	I Am Not-I ...	174
4.	Questions that Are Not	175
5.	The Hansom-cab	177
	The Unwanted Host	177
	Straight from the Horse's Mouth	178
6.	Time and Eternity	178
	Who Is Sane?	178
	Mind and Matter - I	179
	Mind	179
7.	Phenomenal Reality or the Reality of Phenomena	179
	Faith	180
	I Done It	180
8.	That We Are	180
9.	What "It" Is	182
10.	Whole-Mind	183
11.	Two Is One	183
12.	Karuna: A Reminder	186
13.	The Essential Explanation - IV: Reunion of Mind	188
	The Essential Explanation - V	188
14.	False Premises	188
	Obiter Dicta	189
15.	Mind and Matter - II: Restatement	190
	Diagram of Mind and Matter	192
16.	The Mechanism of Psycho-Kinetic Phenomena	192
17.	Understanding of Zen: The Key that Is The Way	194
18.	Whole-Mind and the Way	197
19.	The "Doctrine" of Subjectivity	198
20.	The Binocular Aspect of Subjectivity	200
21.	Realisation	201
	Envoi	205
	Index	207