Index
Page numbers in italics indicate illlustrations.
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
acceptance, 165
achievement, futility of, 59
acquiring, 60
addictions, 161–62
Advaita Vedanta, 123, 166–67
advice, basic Taoist, 151–52
alienation from life, 54
amateur spirituality, 113
ambition, 64–67
anarchy, 91–92, 96, 108
ancestor veneration, 41–43
anger, 162
Arjuna story, effortless action in,
11–12
art, produced from within, 60–61
astrology, 171
Atman, 42, 166–67
atom, spiritual, 139–40
balance, in life, 119
being, 104
Benoit, Hubert, 8–9, 58
Bhagavad Gita, effortless action in,
11–12
blind alley, 58
blunting the sharpness, 115
Book of Mirdad, The, 42–43
Brahman, 42, 116, 166
Buddhism, 14, 65, 161, 162
Campbell, Joseph, 64
caste system, 85–86
causality, 135–37
central nervous system, 125
chance, 132–33
Chaos, 172
charity, 28–30
child-parent relationship, 47–50
Chinese folk religion, Taoism and, 41
choices, fate dependent upon, 83
Christian society, Hindu society and,
85–86
Chuang-tzu, 5–6, 51
his embrace of life, 160–61, 167–68
his perspective and humor, 51–53
on letting the world be, 93
on uselessness, 148–50
working with nature, 173
Chuang-tzu (text), 104–5, 127,
149–50
coffee, 118
cold cognition, 2–3, 126–27
collective awakening, 36–37
Collins, Mabel, 64
Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, The,
167–68
conditioning, 60, 76–77
conformity, 85–87
Confucianism
ancestor veneration in, 43
charity and duty in, 28–30
concept of wu-wei, 10
filial piety in, 47–50
focus on enlightened society, 25
ideas on social hierarchy, 45–46
morality in, 25–28
ongoing influence of, 46–47
relationship to Taoism, 25–32
superior man in, 34–35
on synchronicity, 140–41
Confucius, 43
Confucius Must Die . . ., 49
consciousness, 72, 74, 100–101,
139–40, 141–42
control, 15–17, 32–35, 84, 90
Cook Ting, 127–29
craftsman, skilled, 1, 3–4, 127, 168
creation of religious Taoism,
40–44
Dalberg-Acton, John, 46
death, 80–83, 85
defeat, and realization, 9
democracy, 45
desensitization, 159
desire, 167
dharma, defined, 66
dialectical thought, 14–15
discipline, necessity of, 76–77
distractions, 68, 157
divine guidance, 133
dogmas, limitations of, 22–23
doubt, 98
duty, Confucian and Taoist views,
28–30
eating the menu, 9
effortless living, 1–20, 11, 89, 101,
119. See also effortless mind;
Taoism; wu-wei
as core of Chinese philosophy, 10
defined, 168
is not religion or dogma, 36–50
known through own experience,
32
as living now, 50
living the art of, 58–61
not an ideology or theology, 22–35
trust as principle of, 18
uselessness of, 146–55
effortless mind, 1–20, 35, 128. See
also effortless living; wu-wei
origin in the East, 21–61
science and practice of, 63–129
ego, 37, 134
emptiness, 154
enlightenment, 8–9, 57
enteric nervous system, 128–29
entropy, 80–81
equality, for all, 49–50
evolution, 36–39, 83
extinction, adaptation and, 83
Eye of Horus, 69, 69
faith, 135–36
fall, learning to, 120–21
fate, 83, 133–36
feminine principle (yin), 15
feng-liu, 19
Fibonacci, Leonardo, 19
filial piety, 47–50
first law of thermodynamics, 80
“follow your bliss,” 64
force, 68, 109–10. See also control
futility of, 15–17
Four Invisibles, 103
freedom, as result of trust, 100
Geography of Thought, The, 14–15
goal of spiritual paths, 36
God, 23, 36, 83–84, 101–2, 171–72
concepts of, 76
trust in, 98
Golden Ratio, 19
government, 18, 84–85, 108
Chuang-tzu on letting the world
be, 93
natural government born of Tao,
89–97
trust as real, 94
grace, and effortlessness, 3
great work of eternity, the, 75–76
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovich, 38–39
Hapkido, 120
harmony, 51–61, 160–61
hatha yoga, 6–7
hatred, 159–60
health, 70, 72
heat, excessive, 118
helplessness, and liberation, 58, 60
here and now, 57, 108
Hermetic tradition, laws of spirit and
matter, 138–39
Heyerdahl, Thor, 106–9
Hindu society, Christianity and,
85–86
hot cognition, 2–3, 126–27
hsiang sheng, 74
human life, as part of nature, 55
humility, 66, 151–52
Huxley, Aldous, on God, 171–73
“I,” sense of, 5, 126–27
I Ching, 94–96, 95, 136, 169
identity, illusion of separate, 59
ideology, Taoism is not an, 22–35
idleness, 122
imagination, 135
inequality, 49–50
inner world, versus outer, 31
inspiration, 61
intellect, 14–16
intellectualizing God, 102–3
interference with life, 30, 32
interpretations of life, 59
intuition, as feminine principle, 15
isolation, 156
spiritual, 173–74
Jesus of Nazareth, 44, 86, 87, 155
Jung, Carl, 133–34, 136, 169
junzi, 34–35
ju philosophy (Confucianism),
26–28, 27
karma, 70–73
Kelly, Brian, 118
Kena Upanishad, 116
Kim Kyong-il, 49
koans, 104–5, 116
Kon-Tiki, 106–8
Kreider, Tim, 122
Krishna and Arjuna story, 11–12
Krishnamurti, Jiddu, on violence,
99–100
Kropotkin, Peter, 92
language, paradox of, 12–14
Lao-tzu, 5–6, 10
dialogue with Confucius, 28–29
legacy of, 88
Lao-tzu, philosophy of. See also
wu-wei; Taoism
enlightened individual v.
enlightened society, 25
essence of, 19
interpretation of, 7
lived by only a few, 5
leaving life alone, 91
li (organic pattern of universe),
19–20, 54, 68, 173–74
Confucian concept of, 54
defined and described, 53–57
searching for, 64
liberation, 20
life
always fundamentally right, 97
dissecting, 117
light of Heaven, 95–96
Light on the Path, 64–65
linear model of universe, 53
linear world, 84–85
living, art of, 59–60
love, 102, 154–55, 156–60, 169, 173
low places, seeking, 151–52
martial arts, 4, 7–8, 111–15, 119–20
masculine principle (yang), 15
Masters, Robert Augustus, 163
materialism, 137–38
matter, spirit and, 138–40
meaning, is given by observer, 31
mentalism, principle of, 139
Merton, Thomas, on wu-wei, 10–11
Middle Way, 14–15
mind, 3, 56, 121. See also stilling the
mind
of average individual, 55
emptying the, 60
fasting the, 71, 122–26
mindfulness, 162
Mitchell, Damo, biography, xv–xvi
mixed martial arts, 112–15
moksha, 8, 58–59
monastic life, 161–62
money, as symbol for power, 34
morality, 25–28, 173
Naimy, Mikhail, 42
natural growth, 96
natural world, and evolution, 83
nature, 55, 160, 173–74
nervous system, 124–26
Nietzsche, Friedrich, on morality, 25
nirvana, 58–59
Nisbett, Richard, 14–15
nondoing, 10–12, 74–76, 78
nourishing the world, 58
now moment, 104
oneness, feeling of, 101–4
open awareness, 122–23, 154
opposites, field of, 58
Ouspensky, P. D., 38
oxen, cutting up, 127–29
parasitic patterns, 80–88
parasympathetic nervous system, 125
parenting, 33–34, 47–50
Patanjali, 31–32, 57, 73–75, 78, 142
pattern, and order of the universe, 19
peace, 94, 109
perception, 31–32, 76
perennial philosophy, 101–2
Perennial Philosophy, The, 171–73
peripheral nervous system, 125
planning, 65
Plato, 126
pleasure, pursuit of, 70
positivity, 98–99
power, 34, 46, 61, 68
practice, nondoing and, 74–76
prakrti, 73–74
prayer, 109
precepts on ambition, 64–65
pride, spiritual, 9, 164
Purusha, 73–74, 150
pushing hands, 114
qi, 41
qigong, 6–7, 71
Ramana Maharshi, 34, 132–33, 166
reality, not describable, 13–14
realization, versus attempts toward
it, 8–9
relationships, 157–58, 161, 169–70
greatest relationship (to Tao), 170
religion, 22–24, 36, 101–2, 109
rhythm, principle of, 139–40
rites and rituals, 42–44
sages, 22–23, 57, 86–88, 94, 151–53
reverence for nature of, 138
samadhi, 58–59
samsara, 71–72
samskaras, 70–73, 166–67
Sangue Yoon, 120–21
satori, 8–9, 58–59
saving the world, 36–40, 58
sciences, Taoist, 111–12
security, 32–34
seeing from spirit, 128
seeking, ambition and, 64, 67–68
Self (Eternal), 142–45
self-inquiry, 166–67
senses, philosophy of six, 69
separation, 155
shadow, 134, 164–65, 169
shamanism, relationship to Taoism,
24
siddhis, 113
simple living, 151–55
Slingerland, Edward, 3
somatic nervous system, 125
space, 146–51
spirit, matter and, 138–40
spiritual bypassing, 162–64, 166
Spiritual Bypassing, 163
spiritual paths, liberation via, 36
spiritual plane, 72
spontaneity, 53, 59
intelligent, 127–29
stilling the mind, 6–7, 57, 75
still-point of the Tao, 53, 56, 141
striving, uselessness of, 58–59
success, 86–87, 159
suffering, cause of, 59
superior man, Confucian and Taoist
views of, 34–35
survival, impulse toward, 66–67
synchronicity, 129, 132–46
systems, construction of linear, 54–55
t’ai chi, 6–7, 71
Tao, xi–xii, 17, 23–24, 39, 143, 145
of the Absolute, 6, 12–13, 57
perceiving it in nature, 53
of things, 6, 41
Taoism, xii, 22–24, 40–46, 56
basic teaching of, 89
charity and duty in, 28–30
dependency concepts in, 48
individual liberation in, 39
not truly a religion, 22–24, 40–44
superior man in, 34–35
Taoist religion, 40–44
Tao Te Ching, 7, 12–13, 16–17, 41,
48, 52
“keep to the female,” 115
“The tao that can be told,” 116
Tao: The Watercourse Way, 19
te, 66–68, 67, 77–78
theology, Taoism is not a, 22–35
threat, Taoism as threat to
convention, 44–45
time is money, 117
tradition, limitations of, 46
traditional Chinese medicine
(TCM), 70, 111–12
transformation, 80–83
tree, useless tree story, 149–50,
152–53
trust
embracing, 18–19, 78–79, 97–110
fate and, 135
lack of, xi, 17–18
versus Confucian approach, 30
trying, not to try, 3
Tung-shan Shou-ch’u, 104
tzu-jan (nature), 90–93, 91, 96–97
uncarved block, returning to, 35
unconscious, 133–34, 146
unity, innateness of, 99–100, 108
universe, and consciousness, 100–101
uselessness, 146–55
value, 148–50
vanaprastha, 86
vasanas, 70–73, 161, 166–67
Vedanta, 42, 72–74, 139–40, 142, 144
vibration, principle of, 139–40
violence, 159
vipassana, 122–23
virtue, 67–68, 93. See also te
four virtues (Confucius), 26–28, 27
wars, and belief, 100
water, as metaphor for mind, 57
Watson, Burton, on Chuang Tzu,
167–68
Watts, Alan, 19, 103, 160
Way of Chuang Tzu, The, 148–49
Way of Nature. See also Taoism;
wu-wei
is not an ideology or theology, 22–35
Way of the Tao, as harmony, 51–61
Welwood, John, 162
“What is the Buddha?” 104
who we truly are, 37
women, equality for, 49–50
words, 12–13, 16–17
world
embracing the, 167–70
intention to change, 108
linear world, 84–85
unnatural world, 80–88, 158-59
wu-wei, 10–16, 11, 89, 101, 119. See
also effortless living;
effortless
mind
as core of Chinese philosophy, 10
defined, 168
is not religion or dogma, 36–50
known through own experience, 32
as living now, 50
living the art of, 58–61
not an ideology or theology, 22–35
trust as principle of, 18
uselessness of, 146–55
yang, 15, 112
Yang Zhu, 4
Yen Hui, 123–24
yin, 15, 112, 117
cultivating, 113–15, 120–27
ying, 56, 56, 61
yoga, 36, 73, 74, 76
Yoga-Sutras, 73
“you,” as analytical mind, 2
youth, respect toward, 49–50
Zen, 8–9, 76, 104–5, 116, 142
Zen and the Psychology of
Transformation, 8–9
zone, being in the, 1–3, 5, 127–28