Post by nowhereman on Sept 28, 2013 10:55:51 GMT -5
A fascinating book..
THE TENTH MAN-The Great Joke Which Made Lazarus Laugh by Wei Wu Wei
Between the years 1958 and 1974 a series of books appeared that were attributed to the mysterious Wei Wu Wei. The Tenth Man, an essential work of this enigmatic sage, draws from the ancient traditions of Buddhism, Taosim, and Advaita Vedanta, is being brought out in an new edition by Sentient Publications.
It is poetic justice that very little is known about Wei Wu We. This is certainly in keeping with his belief that there is no one to know anything about. What we do know is that he was born into a very affluent family in Ireland in the year 1895. He died at the age of ninety-one in 1986. Curiously, not unlike Siddartha, he left the fold to study, travel and learn about life's great mysteries. His chief mentor was Sri Ramana Maharshi at Sri Ramanashram in Tiruvannamalai, India. At the age of sixty-three he published his first of eight books, which were released between 1958 and 1974. He also made contributions to a variety of periodicals, including The Mountain Path, as well as The Middle Way and Etre Libre, a French periodical.
Drawing from the ancient traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Advaita Vedanta, this anonymous writer renders their insights in his own radical, uncompromising language, with humor and profundity. In giving us his version of the perennial philosophy, he brings a very different perspective to the conventional notions about time, love, thought, language, and reincarnation. As one reviewer states, "The nonsense of Wei Wu Wei is the sense of the infinite" (Sunday Standard, Bombay).
Wei Wu Wei's dynamic interpretation of the ancient teachings opens the reader's eyes: "I have only one object in writing books: to demonstrate that there could not be anyone to do it." In poetry, dialogs, epigrams, and essays he attempts to right our minds from their upside down view of existence and stop us in the tracks of our spiritual journey. If there is no self to "enlighten," then there is no need for a path to enlightenment. "A 'way' leads from here to there; from here to here, there can be no 'way'."
In the years since Wei Wu Wei's work was originally published, his stature has only increased. He joins Paul Reps, Alan Watts, and Philip Kapleau as one of the earliest and most profound Western interpreters of Zen Buddhism and Taoist philosophies.
Nowhereman
THE TENTH MAN-The Great Joke Which Made Lazarus Laugh by Wei Wu Wei
Between the years 1958 and 1974 a series of books appeared that were attributed to the mysterious Wei Wu Wei. The Tenth Man, an essential work of this enigmatic sage, draws from the ancient traditions of Buddhism, Taosim, and Advaita Vedanta, is being brought out in an new edition by Sentient Publications.
It is poetic justice that very little is known about Wei Wu We. This is certainly in keeping with his belief that there is no one to know anything about. What we do know is that he was born into a very affluent family in Ireland in the year 1895. He died at the age of ninety-one in 1986. Curiously, not unlike Siddartha, he left the fold to study, travel and learn about life's great mysteries. His chief mentor was Sri Ramana Maharshi at Sri Ramanashram in Tiruvannamalai, India. At the age of sixty-three he published his first of eight books, which were released between 1958 and 1974. He also made contributions to a variety of periodicals, including The Mountain Path, as well as The Middle Way and Etre Libre, a French periodical.
Drawing from the ancient traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Advaita Vedanta, this anonymous writer renders their insights in his own radical, uncompromising language, with humor and profundity. In giving us his version of the perennial philosophy, he brings a very different perspective to the conventional notions about time, love, thought, language, and reincarnation. As one reviewer states, "The nonsense of Wei Wu Wei is the sense of the infinite" (Sunday Standard, Bombay).
Wei Wu Wei's dynamic interpretation of the ancient teachings opens the reader's eyes: "I have only one object in writing books: to demonstrate that there could not be anyone to do it." In poetry, dialogs, epigrams, and essays he attempts to right our minds from their upside down view of existence and stop us in the tracks of our spiritual journey. If there is no self to "enlighten," then there is no need for a path to enlightenment. "A 'way' leads from here to there; from here to here, there can be no 'way'."
In the years since Wei Wu Wei's work was originally published, his stature has only increased. He joins Paul Reps, Alan Watts, and Philip Kapleau as one of the earliest and most profound Western interpreters of Zen Buddhism and Taoist philosophies.
Nowhereman
