• 
  • Aging
    
    

    • The Art of Aging Learning Later, Living Greater

  • Culture Tools

    • An Actor's Business Back in Charge! Back in Control The Extraordinary Workplace Get Paid to Write! Getting Started as a Freelance Writer One Less Bitter Actor Poet Power Publish Your Own Magazine, Guidebook, or Weekly Newspaper Secrets of Voice-Over Success Snap Out of It Now! Unplugged

  • Ecology
    
    

    • The Man Who Talks to Whales The Soul Unearthed Why We Garden

  • Education/ Parenting

    • The Happy Child If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom Instead of Education Lives of Passion, School of Hope Optimal Parenting Portraits of Pregnancy The Safe Baby The Shut-Down Learner The Underachieving School

  • Fiction
    
    

    • 2013 God Is an Atheist Nothing from Nothing Standard of Care

  • Health
    
    

    • Changing the Course of Autism A Compromised Generation The Complete Bioterrorism Survival Guide Courageous Confrontations Doctors on the Edge Homebirth in the Hospital How to Heal with Singing Bowls Overpower Pain They Can't Find Anything Wrong! Ultra-Fat to Ultra-Fit The Vibrant Life You Can Beat the Odds

  • History
    
    

    • Doctors from Hell Terrorism on American Soil

  • Science
    
    

    • The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes

  • Spirituality
    
    

    • All Else Is Bondage Ask the Awakened Being One Bitten by the Black Snake Buddha and the Quantum Cleansing the Doors of Perception Doing Nothing Ecstatic Relations Enlightenment for Beginners Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon Getting to Where You Are Healing with Qualities The Holy Longing Holy Stars! How to Attain Enlightenment The Inspired Heart Jump Time Looking for God The Love of Uncertainty A Message from Jakie Mind Is a Myth Mysteries of the Life Force The Mystique of Enlightenment The Nature of Man Nothing I See Means Anything One Open Secret Pass the Jelly Posthumous Pieces The Question to Life's Answers Radical Optimism Roadsigns Seeds for the Soul From Self to Self Card Deck The Shimmering World Sky Above, Earth Below Star in the East The Tao of Walt Whitman The Tenth Man Towards a New Consciousness Unworldly Wise The Way IT Is What Is Self? What's Next After Now? Why Lazarus Laughed

  • Travel
    
    

    • The Creaky Traveler in Ireland The Creaky Traveler in the North West Highlands of Scotland Shanghai

  • Audio/ Video

    • Are We Aware Yet? Back in Control Beyond Consciousness A Conversation with Steven Harrison The Inspired Heart The Moment of Discovery One Less Bitter Actor The Risk of Creativity Seeds for the Soul Self-Deception and the Fires of Transformation Snap Out of It Now! They Can't Find Anything Wrong! Unplugged The Human Potential In the Hands of Alchemy Just As It Is

$17.95
214 pages
softcover
5.25" x 7.75"
ISBN 1-59181-011-6

WHY LAZARUS LAUGHED
The Essential Doctrine, Zen--Advaita--Tantra

Wei Wu Wei

This is the second book written by Wei Wu Wei in a collection of what are now considered spiritual classics of Zen Buddhism, Advaita, and Taoism. Why Lazarus Laughed is a powerfully written book of aphorisms, meditations, and startling ruminations on the nature of time, consciousness, freedom, enlightenment, duality, and free will.

Wei Wu Wei described his books as �reflections of the moon in a puddle� because he does not set himself apart from any other, does not profess to be a teacher, and does not claim to have the last word on spiritual truth. His modest assessment of how well he succeeds at his task would most certainly be disputed by his many enthusiastic readers: �Essential understanding might have found its way into occasional pages.� Indeeed, profound insight seems to leap from every sentence.

�Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!� says Wei Wu Wei, and he follows his own advice. His writes his works anonymously and uses his iconoclastic humor to drive home his points. Those who discover his books feel they have found a secret teaching that brilliantly delivers the purest truth. He has become a sort of underground spiritual favorite whose fans anxiously await each reissued book.

As the subtitle states, Why Lazarus Laughed explicates the essential doctrine shared by the traditions of Zen Buddhism, Advaita, and Tantra. The author is not interested in these traditions as religions, but only in so much as they �reflect the moon� for us. To read this jewel of a book from the immortal Wei Wu Wei is to enter into the heart and mind of one who possessed a very clear insight into the essence of understanding.