Unworldly Wise: As the Owl Remarked to the Rabbit - Couverture souple

Wei, Wei Wu

 
9781591810193: Unworldly Wise: As the Owl Remarked to the Rabbit

Synopsis

Unworldly Wise, Wei Wu Wei’s eighth and final book, is an enlightened parable in the form of a conversation between an owl and a rabbit about God, love, and the way to be free from the traps of our minds. Using the further pseudonym O. O. O., the author was obviously having some fun with his readers. In this most accessible of his remarkable works on the conscious life, Wei Wu Wei shows us that wisdom and laughter go hand in hand.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This classic gem of Eastern spirituality is especially timely in the current climate of interest in Buddhism. In giving us his version of the perennial philosophy, Wei Wu Wei brings a fresh perspective to conventional notions about time, love, thought, God, friendship, loneliness and religion. Using the further pseudonym OOO, the author was obviously having some fun with this final book, which he wrote entirely as a dialog between a wise owl and a naïve rabbit. In the introduction, which he signs Wei Wu Wei, he states ""I fear that OOO might reply to my suggestion or plea (to represent human beings in such a dialog) by again raising his eyebrows -- a habit he has -- and pointing out that human beings have neither the charm, the frankness, nor the simplicity of our animal brothers, and that their discussions would be cantankerous and obscured by the mists of conceptuality."".

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9780856561030: Unworldly Wise: As the Owl Remarked to the Rabbit

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0856561037 ISBN 13 :  9780856561030
Editeur : Hong Kong University Press, 1991
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