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These thirty-four powerful essays, poems, and dialogues based on Taoist and Buddhist thought constitute a guide to what the author calls "non-volitional living"--the ancient understanding that our efforts to grasp our true nature are futile. While this may sound disheartening, fully... read more

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THE MASTERS' exhortations to abjure "thinking" do not imply the suppression of thought but the reorientation, by articulation, of the impetus that results in dualistic thought into its im-mediate experience.

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  1. buddhism
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