Endnotes

 

INTRODUCTION. THE EFFORTLESS MIND

1. Benoit, Zen and the Psychology of Transformation, 157–59.

2. Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, 28.

3. Radhakrishna, Bhagavadgita, 136.

4. Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching, trans. Stephen Mitchell, chapter 1.

5. Nisbett, The Geography of Thought, 27.

6. Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way, 5.

1. THE WAY OF NATURE IS NO IDEOLOGY OR THEOLOGY

1. Quotes. Dictionary.com http://quotes.dictionary.com/morality_the_idiosyncrasy_of_decadents_with_the_ulterior.

2. Quoted in Watts, The Way of Zen, 26.

3. Patanjali, The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali, 66.

2. THE WAY OF NATURE IS NO RELIGION OR DOGMA

1. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, 57–58.

2. Naimy, The Book of Mirdad.

3. “John Dalberg-Acton, First Baron Acton,” Wikipedia; accessed July 17, 2017; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton.

4. Quoted in Chai and Chai, The Humanist Way in Ancient China, 331.

5. Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 18.

3. THE WAY OF THE TAO IS HARMONY

1. Chuang Tsu, Chuang Tsu, 29.

4. THE VIRTUE OF THE NONVIRTUOUS

1. Collins, Light on the Path, 16, 19.

5. PARASITIC PATTERNS OF THE UNNATURAL WORLD

1. “First Law of Thermodynamics,” Wikipedia; accessed July 17, 2017; http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_law_of_thermodynamics&oldid=466893971.

2. Wilhelm, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 78.

6. NATURAL GOVERNMENT BORN OF TAO

1. Chuang-tzu, Complete Works, 114.

7. TRUST IS UNITY

1. Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti, 94.

2. Watts, Way of Zen, 170–71.

3. Chuang-tzu, Complete Works, 43.

8. THE PRACTICE OF YIN CULTIVATION AND THE ART OF THE SKILLFUL CRAFTSMAN

1. Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 28.

2. Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1.

3. Quoted in Columbus and Rice, Alan Watts, 52–53.

4. Brendan Kelly, “Does Body Health Echo Our Planet’s Climate Crisis?” OmTimes, May 30, 2016, http://omtimes.com/2016/05/yoga-yin-climate-crisis.

5. Quoted in Cal Newport, Deep Work, 143.

6. Chuang-tzu, Complete Works, 57–58.

7. Chuang-tzu, Complete Works, 50, 51.

9. SYNCHRONICITY IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE EFFORTLESS MIND

1. Maharshi, Saddarsanam and An Inquiry into the Revelation of Truth and Oneself, 218.

2. Quoted in James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination, 57.

3. Jung, foreword to Wilhelm, The I Ching or Book of Changes, xxiv.

4. “Three Initiates,” The Kybalion, 30.

5. “Three Initiates,” The Kybalion, 35.

6. “Three Initiates,” The Kybalion, 26.

7. Wilhelm, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 9.

8. Chuang Tsu, Chuang Tsu, 29.

10. NOTHING IS MORE USELESS THAN WU-WEI

1. Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, 153.

2. Chuang-tzu, Complete Works, 65.

3. Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 8.

4. Chuang-tzu, Complete Works, 58.

11. LIVING WU-WEI IN THE TAO OF A NEW WORLD

1. Watts, The Joyous Cosmology, 112.

2. Masters, Spiritual Bypassing, 1–2.

3. Introduction to Chuang-tzu, Complete Works, 5–6.

4. Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 76–77.