Open Secret

by Wei Wu Wei

Overview

Open Secret is an essential work by the mysterious Wei Wu Wei, author of a series of Buddhist and Taoist spiritual classics. In poetry, dialogs, epigrams, and essays, he addresses our illusions concerning the mind, the self, logic, time, space, and causation. His substantive interpretation of The Heart Sutra—the epitome of Buddhist teachings—conveys the inexpressible truth of existence. Reading this jewel of a book, one enters into a heart and mind possessed of a very clear insight into the essence of understanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591810148
Publisher:	Sentient Publications
Publication date:	02/24/2004
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	203
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.52(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents

	Inscription	v
	To Each Reader	vi
	Preface	xiii
Part I
1.	Time and Space	2
2.	The Pseudo-Problem of "Suffering"	3
3.	The Will-Inference	4
I.4
II.	Volition	4
III.	Definition of Volition	5
IV.	Observations	6
4.	Saying It Simply	7
I.7
II.10
5.	Geometrically Regarded	11
6.	"I Am Not, but the Universe Is My Self"	13
	Logical Analysis of This Intuition	13
7.	Gone with the Mind	15
8.	The Fasting of the Mind	16
9.	Aren't We All? ...	17
I.17
II.	Who Done It?	17
10.	Utter Absence as Us	18
11.	Echoes - I	20
	The Positive Expression	21
	Again	21
	Definition of "Noumenal Living"	22
	Hara-Kiri	22
	Inseeing	22
12.	The Cosmic Continuum	23
13.	Past, Present and Future	24
14.	Who Is There to Be Enlightened?	24
	Dreamer, Awake!	25
15.	Tathata	26
16.	Seeing	26
I.26
II.	Once More	27
17.	The Logic beyond Logic	27
18.	Is the Man-in-the-Moon in the Puddle?	29
19.	Suggestions	30
	Unborn and Undead	31
	Comedy	31
	Comment	31
20.	The Mechanism of Appearance (As It May Be Conceived)	32
21.	Hommage a Hui Neng	34
	Replacement of Responsibility	34
22.	To Hell with It All!	34
23.	Echoes - II	35
	All Said and Done	37
Part II
24.	The Logic of Non-Logic	40
	The Meaning of "Noumenon"	40
25.	Living Without Tears	41
26.	Why We Cannot Be	43
27.	Transcendence and Immanence	43
28.	Integral Seeing	44
29.	Rumours - I	45
	In Both Kinds of Dream	45
30.	"Alive, Alive-O"	47
31.	They Said It Was Simple	48
32.	The Disappearance of Subject	50
33.	Let's Talk It Over!	50
34.	Non-objective Relation	53
	Self-portrait	53
	Portrait of You	53
35.	"Where, Oh Where? ..."	54
I.54
II.55
36.	Quod Erat Demonstrandum	57
37.	I-I: This Universe Which We Are	57
38.	As Long As ...	58
39.	Practice? By Whom, on What?	59
40.	Speaking of God ...	60
I.60
II.60
41.	Rumours - II	62
	You	62
	Practice	63
Part III	The Heart Sutra
42.	Concerning the "Heart Sutra"	66
Section I66
Section II70
I.	A Rendering of the Sutra of the Divine Inseeing Mind	72
II.	In Technical Terms - I	78
III.	The Burden of the Heart Sutra - I	81
IV.	The Burden of the Heart Sutra - II	82
V.	The Burden of the Heart Sutra - III	83
VI.	The Burden of the Heart Sutra - IV	85
VII.	The Burden of the Heart Sutra - V	87
VIII.	Bodhisattvic Vision	89
IX.	Omnipresence	91
Part IV
43.	The Resolution of Duality	93
44.	Shadows	94
45.	Seeing, Seeing, Seeing ...	95
46.	The Illusion of Enlightenment	96
47.	Grammatically Speaking	96
48.	Whose Mind?	99
49.	In Technical Terms - II	100
	The Apparent Mystery	100
	I Am--but There Is No "I"	101
	Definition of Non-objective Relation	101
50.	Saying It Even More Simply	101
51.	Disillusion	103
	Identity	103
52.	Let Us Do This ...	104
53.	Seeing It Simply	109
54.	The Essential Identity	113
I.113
II.115
55.	Observations Concerning Causation	116
	Only That Which Is Objective Can Be Bound	116
56.	For Sile	119
I.119
II.120
57.	The Golden Key	121
58.	This and That	122
59.	Who?	123
60.	Presence and Absence	125
61.	Self and Other	127
62.	An I-Concept, Analytically	128
63.	Causality or Indeterminacy?	129
64.	Aria	131
	Moderato	131
	Forte	132
	Fortissimo	132
65.	Pseudo-Problems	133
I.133
II.	Again	134
66.	The Quest	135
67.	Un-lost and Un-findable	136
68.	The Ultimate Symbol	137
69.	Enlightenment as Disappearance of Nescience	139
70.	Apperceiving	140
	Identity of Opposites	140
71.	In Fine	142
	Colophon: All It Is	143
Part V
72.	Dialogues
I.	The Pure Land	146
II.	Indeterminacy	149
III.	As Far as I Am Concerned	153
IV.	The Monkey's Banana	157
V.	Custard-Pies	163
VI.	The Question	168
VII.	Bodhisattvas and All	169
VIII.	Seeing	173
IX.	Non-Objective Relation	177
X.	Words That Mean What They Say	181
XI.	Who Was the Buddha?	188
	Index	197