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Tables of Contents for Ask the Awakened
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xiii
Introduction
1
7
Part I: The Cross-Roads
The Harlequinade
8
2
Ask the Awakened
10
1
The Cross-Roads of Time and Space
11
1
He Who Gets Slapped
12
1
That I Am
13
1
Enlightenment by Non-Action
14
1
Service
14
1
Silence, 1
15
1
Reflections
16
1
The Readjustment
17
1
Silence, 2
18
2
The Universal Presence
20
1
Verity
20
3
The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth
23
1
I Am Not
24
1
The Negative Path
24
1
Perception
25
2
Thisness
25
1
``Reality'' Is Necessarily Intemporal
26
1
Isness
26
1
Milarepa Too
26
1
Vertical Vision, 1
27
1
Golden Silence
27
2
Debris, 1
29
7
Realization
32
4
Part II: The Negative Way
Ne Plus Ultra
36
1
Why Lazarus Is Still Laughing...
36
2
The Illuminating Vision
38
1
Irreverence
39
1
Baubles of the Mind (Sutras and the Void)
40
1
Ultimate and Unconditioned ``Reality'' Is Negative and Void
41
2
Nothing in Something
43
1
Something in Nothing
43
1
That Which Is Not, 1
43
1
I Am Not
44
1
The Ultimate Understanding
44
1
The Realization of the Void
44
1
Because It Is Not...
45
3
Neant
48
2
The Photographic Image Also Is Negative
50
1
Discrimination
50
2
A.B.C. 1: The Culprit
52
1
A.B.C. 2: Transvaluation of Values
53
1
A.B.C. 3: The Buddha's Formula in Relative Reality
53
1
The Buddha, Original, or Self Nature
54
2
Alter-Egoism
56
2
A Causeri
56
2
Glimpses of the Bodhi-Mind?
58
3
Love: An Antidote
61
1
Hard Words
61
1
The Myth of ``Mankind,'' 1
62
4
The Myth of ``Mankind,'' 2
66
4
When the Dreamer Awakes
70
1
Explanations, 1
71
1
Non-Duality
71
1
Debunking the Relative
72
3
The Gateway
75
1
Explanations, 2
76
1
Explanations, 3
77
1
Non-Reality
77
1
Explanations, 4
77
1
Relative Reality
77
1
Elimination
78
1
The Essential Understanding
79
2
Becoming a Bamboo
80
1
The Shrine of Subjectivity
81
1
Vista
81
1
Colloquially, 1
82
1
``Neither'' not ``Both'': The Reason Why
82
1
Colloquially, 2
83
1
The Skandhas
83
1
Sidelights on Some Ko-ans, 1
84
1
Sidelights on Some Ko-ans, 2
85
1
Sidelights on Some Ko-ans, 3
86
1
Sidelights on Some Ko-ans, 4
87
1
Void as the Non-Apparent Universe
88
2
The Key of the Gateless Gate: The End of the Negative Way
90
1
Hoorah!
91
1
Debris, 2
91
3
Part III: Absolute Absence
Testamentary
94
4
A Pink Elephant?
98
1
No-Mind, No-Mirror
99
2
Cracking the Nut
101
5
This World of ``Ours''
106
1
Neti Neti
107
2
Towards Unitary Thinking
109
6
I
109
2
II
111
1
III
112
2
IV
114
1
Syllogistically
115
2
Form and Void
117
1
Where Is Reality?
117
1
``No-Mind Speaking''
118
2
The Mechanism of Duality
120
2
The Subjective Solution
120
1
Analytic
121
1
The Transmission of Truth
122
1
The Expression of Truth
123
1
Looking in the Right Direction
123
1
Judgements
124
1
Restatement
124
1
The Marx Bros.
125
1
The True Sense of ``Intuition''
125
1
The Buddha's Formula in Brief
126
1
The Buddha's Formula in Full
127
1
Another Way of Saying It
127
1
Another Way of Doing It
127
1
Bodhi, Svaha!
128
6
I
128
4
II
132
2
Debris: Space and Time
134
1
Whole-Mind
135
1
Vertical ``Vision,'' 2
135
1
Absolute Absence
136
1
I
136
1
II
137
1
III
137
1
Absolute Presence
137
1
Chih
138
1
The Wave-Mechanism Symbol of Transmigration
139
2
Science and Soda
141
1
Mises au Point
142
1
Birth-and-Death: The Facts
143
2
The Fantasy of Enlightenment
145
2
That Which Is Not, 2
147
1
Absence, as Defined by Shen Hui
147
3
Ex Cathedra
150
1
Dhyana
151
1
I
151
1
II. Explanatory
152
1
Adieu
152
7
I
152
1
II
152
1
III
153
1
IV
154
5
Colophon
155
4
Epilogue
Aspects of the Doctrine of Bodhidharma as Developed by the Patriarchs
159
2
Extension
159
1
``Vertical'' Mind and the Now Moment
160
1
The ``Mysterious'' Third Phase
160
1
The Only Equality
161
1
Bubbles
161
1
Man and Nature
161
1
Inseeing
162
1
Vertical Living
163
1
``The Way of the Water''
164
1
Freewill
164
1
The Illusion of Being
165
2
Time, and Time Again
167
1
Nothing but the Truth
168
1
The Nature of Phenomena
169
1
Principal and Function
170
1
A Tip for Teachers
171
1
Gateaux des Rois
172
1
The ``Abiding-Place''
173
1
Awakening
174
1
Box and Cox
174
1
Satori Has No Objective Existence
174
1
The True and the False Negative
175
3
Still Life
178
1
Subjective Awareness
179
3
Articulation, 1
180
1
Articulation, 2
180
1
Wu Nien
181
1
This
182
1
This Which Is...
182
1
The Meaning of Pure Mind
183
1
A Clean Sweep
184
1
According to the Supreme Vehicle
185
4
According to Vedanta
185
1
According to Sufism
186
3
Note on the Diamond Sutra
189
7
Let Me Remind You
196
1
Index
197
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