This project represents a work of LOVE. All texts so far gathered, as well as all future gatherings aim at exposing interested students to occult information. Future releases will include submissions from users like YOU. For some of us, the time has come to mobilize. If you have an interest in assisting in this process - we all have strengths to bring to the table. email : [email protected] (cid:2) (cid:2) Complacency serves the old gods . (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) Open Secret Wei Wu Wei HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN HOUSE, LONDON, E.C.4 AND 417 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 16, ARE THE EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT ASIA EAST OF BURMA First printing, April 1965, 1000 copies © T. J. Gray 1965 Printed in Hong Kong by CATHAY PRESS 31 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen Inscription 'A single word is sufficient to reveal the truth.'—Shin-hut In case such a word be lurking somewhere herein . . . To Each Reader This work is essentially a discussion; if occasionally pas sages should appear to be didactically expressed, please be so good as to interpret them as emphasis, due to a rift in the cloud of misunderstanding which we are mutually seeking to disperse. The writer of these lines has nothing whatever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject that could be discussed by sentient beings. W. W. W. Chapter 6, 'I Am Not, But The Universe Is Myself, chapter 53, 'Seeing It Simply', and chapter 54, 'The Essential Identity', are reprinted by kind permission of the Editor of The Mountain Path (issues of January, July and October 1964), Shri Ramana- shramam, Tiruvannamalai, S. India. Preface As LONG AS subject is centred in a phenomenal object, and thinks and speaks therefrom, subject is identified with that object and is bound. As long as such condition obtains, the identified subject can never be free—for freedom is liberation from that identification. Abandonment of a phenomenal centre constitutes the only 'practice', and such abandonment is not an act volitionally performed by the identified subject, but a non-action (wu wei) leaving the noumenal centre in control of phenomenal activity, and free from fictitious interference by an imaginary 'self. Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom. Could any statement be more classic? Could any statement be more obvious? Could any statement be more vital? Yet—East and West—how many observe it? So Could any statement be more needed? Note: Wu wei merely implies absence of volitional interference. Whom do I mean by 'you'? I mean 'I'. I am always I, whoever says it, man or monkey, noumenally or phenomenally, identified or free—and there is no such entity. P.S.: If you have understood the above it is quite unnecessary for you to read any more of this book. VIII OPEN SECRET Contents Inscription ... v Preface ... vii PART I i Time and Space 3 2 The Pseudo-Problem of 'Suffering' 4 3 I. The Will-Inference 5 II. Volition III. Definition of Volition IV. Observations 4 Saying it Simply ... ... ... ... ... 8 5 Geometrically Regarded ... ... ... ... ... 12 6 'I am Not, but the Universe is my Self 14 7 Gone with the Mind 16 8 The Fasting of the Mind 17 9 Aren't We All. . . ? 18 Who done It? 10 Utter Absence as Us 20 11 Echoes—1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 22 12 The Cosmic Continuum 24 13 Past, Present and Future ... ... ... ... ... 25 14 Who is there to be Enlightened? 26 Dreamer, Awake! 15 Tathata 27 16 Seeing ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 28 17 The Logic Beyond Logic ... ... ... ... ... 29 18 Is the Man-in-the-Moon in the Puddle? 31 19 Suggestions ... ... ... ... ... ... 32 20 The Mechanism of Appearance (as it may be conceived) ... ... ... ... ... ... 34 21 Hommagea Hui-néng 36 22 To Hell with it All! 37 23 Echoes—11 ... ... ... ... ... ... 38 CONTENTS IX PART II 24 The Logic of Non-Logic ... .... ... ... 43 25 Living without Tears 44 26 Why we cannot Be ... ... ... ... ... 46 27 Transcendence and Immanence ... 47 28 Integral Seeing 48 29 Rumours—1 49 30 'Alive, Alive-O' 51 31 They Said it was Simple 52 32 The Disappearance of Subject ... ... ... 54 33 Let's Talk It Over! 55 34 Non-objective Relation 57 35 'Where, Oh Where. .. ?' 58 36 Quod Erat Demonstrandum ... ... ... ... 60 37 I-I: This Universe which we Are ... 61 38 As Long As . .. 62 39 Practice? By Whom, On What? 63 40 Speaking of God ... 1-11 64 41 Rumours—11 66 PART III THE HEART SUTRA 42 Concerning the 'Heart Sutra' 71 I. A Rendering of the Sutra of the Divine Inseeing Mind ... ... ... ... 76 II. In Technical Terms 80 III. The Burden of the Heart Sutra—1 83 IV. The Burden of the Heart Sutra—n 84 V. The Burden of the Heart Sutra—m ... 86 VI. The Burden of the Heart Sutra—iv 88 VII. The Burden of the Heart Sutra—v 90 VIII. Bodhisattvic Vision ... ... ... ... 92 IX. Omnipresence ... ... ... ... ... 94
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