Open Secret Second Edition

Author : Wei Wu-wei
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622090303
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Secret, Second Edition written by Wei Wu-wei and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1966-03-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old Masters were fond of a little joke. For instance one of them might say that the Buddha had a secret, but that Mahākāshyapa let it out. Mahākāshyapa, you may remember, was the bodhisattva to whom . the Supreme Vehicle, chiefly represented by Ch'an and Zen to-day, is attributed. He it was who understood the famous sermon when the Buddha merely held up a flower and spoke no word. Then one Master would remark that only as long as you do not understand-is it a secret. And, indded, do not all mysteries, and miracles too, only appear so in so far as we may not understand how they arise or occur? Then another might add that once you do understand it is Mahākāshyapa not keeping the secret. Therefore a secret is only something which people in general do not understand, and Mahākāshyapa not keeping the secret was the real secret of the Buddha. So that only when a secret is not kept is there a secret, and when there is a secret, then it has not been kept. What is not kept secret is a secret, and what is kept secret is not a secret at all. Thus the secret that is not kept secret is what is meant by an Open Secret.

Author : Wei Wu Wei
Publisher : Sentient Publications
ISBN 13 : 1591810140
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Secret written by Wei Wu Wei and published by Sentient Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best-loved of Wei Wu Wei's books, 'Open Secret' enlightens us as to the true nature of the self, as well as time, space, and enlightenment itself. The work includes extensive commentary on the Heart Sutra, regarded by Buddhists as the summation of the Buddha's wisdom. The pseudonymous author studied deeply in Eastern and Western philosophy and metaphysics, along with the esoteric teachings of the great religions. In his writing he distils this knowledge into uniquely elegant prose -- full of humour, metaphors, profundity, and his essential understanding of the open secret of life.

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231146310
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Secret written by Elliot R. Wolfson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasidic sect into an international movement, and a man dedicated to the exposition of mysteries who nevertheless harbored many secrets. Schneerson astutely masked views that might be deemed heterodox by the canons of orthodoxy while engineering a fundamentalist ideology that could subvert traditional gender hierarchy, the halakhic distinction between permissible and forbidden, and the social-anthropological division between Jew and Gentile. While most literature on the Rebbe focuses on whether or not he identified with the role of Messiah, Elliot R. Wolfson, a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism and the phenomenology of religious experience, concentrates instead on Schneerson's apocalyptic sensibility and his promotion of a mystical consciousness that undermines all discrimination. For Schneerson, the ploy of secrecy is crucial to the dissemination of the messianic secret. To be enlightened messianically is to be delivered from all conceptual limitations, even the very notion of becoming emancipated from limitation. The ultimate liberation, or true and complete redemption, fuses the believer into an infinite essence beyond all duality, even the duality of being emancipated and not emancipated--an emancipation, in other words, that emancipates one from the bind of emancipation. At its deepest level, Schneerson's eschatological orientation discerned that a spiritual master, if he be true, must dispose of the mask of mastery. Situating Habad's thought within the evolution of kabbalistic mysticism, the history of Western philosophy, and Mahayana Buddhism, Wolfson articulates Schneerson's rich theology and profound philosophy, concentrating on the nature of apophatic embodiment, semiotic materiality, hypernomian transvaluation, nondifferentiated alterity, and atemporal temporality.

Author : David Ehrenstein
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780688175856
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Secret written by David Ehrenstein and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2000-05-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part social history and part exposé, this revealing, entertaining, and provocative book spans nearly seventy years as it explores the lives and careers of some of the silver screen's foremost gays and lesbians and the effect of their high-profile lifestyles on the general public. From Charles Laughton and Greta Garbo to Nathan Lane and Ellen DeGeneres, David Ehrenstein traces the gradual transformation of Hollywood from a time when it was box-office poison to be publicly gay to the modern era when many top entertainment figures are celebrating their gay sexuality--and are in turn celebrated for it. Updated, Open Secret reveals what has happened to the key players in gay Hollywood since the original hardcover publication.

Author : Stella Rimington
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448107482
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Secret written by Stella Rimington and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The story of MI5's transformation - is fascinating. So, too is Rimington's account of her rise in what was very definitely a man's world.' Guardian ____________________________ The eye-opening memoir from the first female Director-General of MI5 Stella Rimington worked for MI5 between 1969 and 1996, one of the most turbulent and dramatic periods in global history. Working in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities - counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism - she became successively Director of all three branches, and finally Director-General of MI5 in 1992. She was the first woman to hold the post and the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. In Open Secret, she continues her work of opening up elements of the work of our security services to public scrutiny, revealing the surprising culture of MI5 and shedding light on some of the most fascinating events in 20th century history from the ultimate insider viewpoint. ____________________________ Stella Rimington is also the author of the novels At Risk and Secret Asset.

Author : Anne-Lise François
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804752534
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Secrets written by Anne-Lise François and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Secrets contests the dominant influences of utilitarianism, expressive individualism, and imperatives to self-improvement by examining a series of texts in which "nothing happens" and arguing that these works, far from hiding from narrative demands, make an open secret of fulfilled experience and yield a revelation without insistence or rhetorical underscoring.

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570625298
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Secret written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1999-09-21 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These quatrains and odes reveal a most human and accessible side of the great poet and mystic. They are the personal records of one man's encounter with the Divine.

Author : Carlos Gamerro
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1906548722
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Open Secret written by Carlos Gamerro and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darío Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be 'disappeared' by the military government-murdered by the local chief of police with the complicity of his friends and neighbours. Twenty years later, Fefe returns to the town where Darío met his fate and attempts to discover how the community let such a crime happen. Lies, excuses and evasion ensue-desperate attempts to deny the guilty secret of which the whole community, even Fefe himself, is afraid.

Author : Tony Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953303205
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Secret written by Tony Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Throughout my early life I felt that there was another possibility which, once realised, would transform all and everything. One day that possibility became a reality, and it was simple and ordinary, magnificent and revolutionary. It is the open secret that reveals itself in every part of our lives. But realisation does not emerge through our attempts to change our lives, it comes as a direct rediscovery of who it is that lives. The Open Secret is a singular and radical work which speaks of the fundamental liberation that is absolutely beyond effort, path, process or belief.'

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 0880109335
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature's Open Secret written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the young age of twenty-one, Rudolf Steiner was chosen to edit Goethe's scientific writings for the principle Geothe edition of his time. Goethe's literary genius was universally acknowledged; it was Steiner's task to understand and comment on Goethe's scientific achievements. Steiner recognized the significance of Goethe's work with nature and his epistemology, and here began Steiner's own training in epistemology and spiritual science. This collection of Steiner's introductions to Goethe's works re-visions the meaning of knowledge and how we attain it. Goethe had discovered how thinking could be applied to organic nature and that this experience requires not just rational concepts but a whole new way of perceiving. In an age when science and technology have been linked to great catastrophes, many are looking for new ways to interact with nature. With a fundamental declaration of the interpenetration of our consciousness and the world around us, Steiner shows how Goethe's approach points the way to a more compassionate and intimate involvement with nature.