Wei Wu Wei - All Else is Bondage ( non-duality )

"I" own a hardcopy of this and believe "me" it is well read. Thought some of "you" would appreciate an e-version. It is a very small book ( 55-56 pages )compared to his others, but don't be decieved by that. It is quite possibly his most condensed and best.

Wei Wu Wei goes right for the root. He takes away everything, and leaves nothing. Then he takes that away.

"Please be so good as to believe that there is nothing whatever mysterious about this matter. If it was easy, should we not all be Buddhas? No doubt, but the apparent difficulty is due to our conditioning. The apparent mystery, on the other hand, is just obnubilation, an inability to perceive the obvious owing to a conditioned reflex which causes us persistently to look in the wrong direction!"--From the book

These thirty-four powerful essays, poems, and dialogues based on Taoist and Buddhist thought constitute a guide to what the author calls "non-volitional living"--the ancient understanding that our efforts to grasp our true nature are futile. While this may sound disheartening, fully comprehending this truth is the key to our liberation. Wei Wu Wei explains these venerable spiritual traditions in the context of modern experience, using wit and considerable precision to convey their profound insight into the very nature of existence. The author himself said of this little volume that it is "the shortest, the clearest, and the most direct" of his books.

from a popular bookstore review:
"...the author repeats the same message so often as to annoy the alert reader. The book - like all his works - is written in snippets or short 'chapters' rather than as a coherent, argued statement; some day someone will write such a book, but, at present, I am unaware of one quite so sophisticated as this one. At the same time, the content is virtually incomprehensible without some prior reading on the noumenon-phenomenon distinction and, perhaps, some reading on Buddhism (Ch'an) and/or philosophical Taoism (though most translations - and many journal articles on Tao, are sheer rubbish). For those who persist, the book is richly rewarding, providing insights that map well onto subatomic physics, neuroscience, Taoism, Buddhism, and other areas of learning. This book is probably the best of those written by Terrence Gray ('Wu Wei Wu')"

..."In one of the earliest of his books the author keeps driving the same non-nail into the same non-coffin with the same non-hammer until it begins to sink in that we really are mistaken in what we have all agreed is the universe. If he goes too far, no harm done, for anyone who understands it that well will always be safe."

"STUNNINGLY TRANSFORMATIVE..This classic melds many traditions into one profound source. Wei Wu Wei has boiled down non-dualistic wisdom into a gripping and clear text accessible to all who ponder its truths."

CONTENTS:
Foreword
A Note on the terms 'Volition' and 'Causation'
ZERO Enlightenment and the Extinction of 'Me'
I Thought
II Truth
III Inconceivable
IV It: On Realising Mind
V Gone with my Head
VI This Phenomenal Absence
VII Our Buddha-Nature
VIII This Which We Are
IX Potential Reality
X Potential Plenum
XI Potential Being
XII Enfin.
..... The Corral
XIII Seeking The Seeker
XIV Pure Function
XV Ultimate
XVI 'Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends...'
XVII Genesis. Metanoesis
XVIII ?
XIX Aeternitas; The Non-conceptual Universe.
..... Description of No-Time
..... Description of No-Space
..... Believing the Buddha
XX All Else Is Bondage
XXI Ego
XXII Hommage à Hui Hai
XXIII The Answer to the Only Question
XXIV The Noumenal Answer
XXV Non-entity
XXVI Noumenal Living
XXVII The Living Dream
XXVIII Objets Perdus
XXIX Intentions
....... Volition
....... Glad Living
XXX Non-volitional Living
XXXI Ultimate Illusion
XXXII Tao
XXXIII Elimination of Bondage
XXXIV Personally to You