Why Lazarus Laughed
The Essential Doctrine
Published on 19. October 2023
300 pages
978-1-59181-226-5 (ISBN)
Description
A spiritual classic explicating the essential doctrine shared by the traditions of Zen Buddhism, Advaita and Taoism.
Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Why Lazarus Laughed is a powerfully written book of aphorisms, meditations, and startling ruminations on the nature of time, consciousness, freedom, enlightenment, duality, and free will.
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role! says Wei Wu Wei, and he follows his own advice. He writes his works anonymously and uses his iconoclastic humor to drive home his points. Those who discover his books feel they have found a secret teaching that brilliantly delivers the purest truth. He has become a sort of underground spiritual favorite whose fans anxiously await each reissued book.
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"Wei Wu Wei" was born in 1895 into a well-established Irish family, was raised on an estate outside Cambridge, England, and received a thorough education, including studies at Oxford University. Early in life he pursued an interest in Egyptology, which culminated in the publication of two books on ancient Egyptian history and culture in 1923. This was followed by a period of involvement in the arts in Britain in the 20's and 30's as a theorist, theatrical producer, creator of radical "dance-dramas," publisher of several related magazines, and author of two related books.
Content
- Intro
- The Title of This Book
- Preface
- Prolegomenon
- 1. Revaluation of Values: Three False Values
- 2. Buddhas for Burning
- 3. Man Is a River
- 4. Time and Movement Are Two Aspects of a Single Phenomenon
- Portrait of a Gentleman
- 5. Living Backwards
- 6. Policemen Disguising Themselves as Thieves in Order to Catch Themselves
- Armchair Travelling
- 7. Le Fantoche
- 8. Free-will Versus Determinism
- 9. Free-will - I
- Free-will - II
- 10. Freedom - I
- Freedom - II
- 11. Débris - I
- 12. Turning the Other Cheek
- Poached Eggs (all of us)
- 13. Group Egoism-A Causerie
- 14. Travail
- Dream Figures. "As Below..."
- 15. The Man in the Moon
- 16. You Must Dig Deep to Bury Your Shadow-A Causerie
- 17. The Reason
- 18. Definitions - I
- 19. The Great Joke
- 20. Definitions of Non-attachment
- 21. Booing the Villain
- Cock-a-doodle-do
- The Artichoke-Ecstasis
- 22. Integration
- 23. Débris - II
- The Eye
- 24. Pure Consciousness
- Tao
- 25. Transcending Space
- Dualism Is a Function of Tridimensionality
- 26. Transcending Time
- 27. The Dreamer
- I
- II
- III
- 28. Uncommon-Sense Regarding Reincarnation
- 29. Unicity - I
- Unicity - II
- 30. Good Morning
- 31. The House of Cards
- I
- II
- 32. Dreams and Reality
- 33. Free-will - III
- 34. La Vida Es Sueño
- 35. The One Freedom
- 36. Unicity - III
- 37. The Bogie
- 38. The Three Known Dimensions Are External: The Fourth Is Within the Mind
- Free-will - IV
- 39. The Present Includes Past and Future
- 40. The Communication of Knowledge and the Communication of Understanding
- 41. The Spanner
- 42. The Column of Smoke
- 43. Other Aspects of the Dream We Are Living
- 44. To Be or Not To Be
- 45. Kittens in Wool
- 46. Definitions - II
- 47. "L'art Moderne"
- 48. Between Ourselves
- Questions that Are Not
- 49. Democracy - I
- Demophily
- 50. Mutt and Jeff
- 51. "Progress"
- 52. Impasse
- 53. The Mind Is a Moon
- The Day of Pseudo-Glory
- 54. Karma: A Suggestion
- Free-will - V
- 55. Dualism Is Duodimensional
- Time
- 56. Débris - III
- Definitions - III
- 57. Us
- 58. Let It Grow
- 59. The Second Barrier
- 60. Spontaneity - I
- 61. Will - I
- Will - II
- Will - III
- 62. Seeking for Satori
- Spiritual Experience
- Suchness
- 63. There Is No "I" But I-A Causerie
- I
- II
- 64. Life: A Definition
- 65. The Opposites and Complementaries
- 66. Subject and Object
- 67. Free-will - VI
- 68. What Am I?
- 69. The Fact of the Matter
- 70. Definition of Spontaneity
- 71. The Last Lap
- 72. Enlightenment
- Spontaneity - II
- Personalised Deity
- Transcending Dualism
- Show A Leg!
- 73. Who Are We?-A Causerie
- 74. Absolutely Us
- The Old Man in the Corner
- 75. Objects in Duality Are Not Subjects in Duality
- 76. Existing, Not-Existing, or Not Not-Existing? A Somewhat Tedious Discussion
- 77. Reintegrating the Subject
- 78. Sense and Non-Sense
- 79. The Dharma
- 80. Hard Words
- Evasion
- 81. Metaphysical Analysis of What We Are
- 82. A Trilogy
- 1. Resolving Our Personal Duality - I
- 2. The Process of Release
- 3. Infusion
- 83. The Reason Why - I
- The Reason Why - II
- 84. Awakening By Means of the Dream Can Only Be Dreaming that We Are Awake
- 85. The Criminal - I
- 86. The Criminal - II
- 87. Street Scene
- Tinkle-Tinkle
- 88. Resolving Our Personal Duality - II
- 89. Geometrical Representation of Our Multidimensional Reality
- 90. The Term "Enlightenment"
- 91. The Essential Explanation - I
- 92. Do We Know How to Read?
- 93. Is It a Concept?
- 94. Quiddity
- 95. Reverence-A Causerie
- 96. Being
- Homo Sapiens
- Karuna-Caritas
- The Present
- 97. The Possibility of Reincarnation
- 98. I Am, or the Ultimate Subject
- 99. Transcendence-What It Is
- 100. The Wrath of God
- 101. Transcendence or Neutralisation?
- 102. Duality or Dualism?
- Personal
- 103. The Essential Explanation - II
- 104. Reincarnation: Ultimate Observation
- 105. The Essential Explanation - III: The Big Black Cloud
- 106. Perception and Reality
- Direct Cognition
- 107. One Half of a Pair-A Causerie
- 108. Democracy - II
- Ends and Means
- 109. Dusting the Parrot
- 110. Good-bye, Old Man
- 111. Vale
- Colophon
- Epilogue
- 1. Why Lazarus Laughed
- 2. What I Am . . .
- How I Realise What I Am
- 3. I Am Not-I . . .
- 4. Questions that Are Not
- 5. The Hansom-cab
- The Unwanted Host
- Straight from the Horse's Mouth
- 6. Time and Eternity
- Who Is Sane?
- Mind and Matter - I
- Mind
- 7. Phenomenal Reality or the Reality of Phenomena
- Faith
- I Done It
- 8. That We Are
- 9. What "It" Is
- 10. Whole-Mind
- 11. Two Is One
- 12. Karuna: A Reminder
- 13. The Essential Explanation - IV: Reunion of Mind
- The Essential Explanation - V
- 14. False Premises
- Obiter Dicta
- 15. Mind and Matter - II: Restatement
- Diagram of Mind and Matter
- 16. The Mechanism of Psycho-Kinetic Phenomena
- 17. Understanding of Zen: The Key that Is The Way
- 18. Whole-Mind and the Way
- 19. The "Doctrine" of Subjectivity
- 20. The Binocular Aspect of Subjectivity
- 21. Realisation
- Envoi
- Index
