Wu Xin (无心, aka Wu Hsin)
It is widely believed that Wu Hsin (the name itself means No-Mind) was born during the Warring States Period (403-221BCE), postdating the death of Confucius by more than one hundred years.
He offers a highly refined view of life and living.
When he writes “Nothing appears as it seems”, he challenges the reader
to question and verify every belief and every assumption.
Brevity was the trademark of his writing style.
Whereas his contemporaries were writing lengthy tomes, Wu Hsin‟s style
reflected his sense that words, too, were impediments to the attainment
of Understanding; that they were only pointers and nothing more.
He repeatedly returns to three key points. First, on
the phenomenal plane, when one ceases to resist What-Is and becomes more
in harmony with It, one attains a state of Ming, or clear seeing.
Having arrived at this point, all action becomes wei wu wei, or action
without action (non-forcing) and there is a working in harmony with
What-Is to accomplish what is required.
Second, as the clear seeing deepens (what he refers
to as the opening of the great gate), the understanding arises that
there is no one doing anything and that there is only the One doing
everything through the many and diverse objective phenomena which serve
as Its instruments.
From this flows the third and last: the seemingly
separate me is a misapprehension, created by the mind which divides
everything into pseudo-subject (me) and object (the world outside of
this me). This seeming two-ness (dva in Sanskrit, duo in Latin, dual in
English), this feeling of being separate and apart, is the root cause of
unhappiness.
The return to wholeness is nothing more than the end
of this division. It is an apperception of the unity between the
noumenal and the phenomenal in much the same way as there is a single
unity between the sun and sunlight. Then, the pseudo-subject is finally
seen as only another object while the true Subjectivity exists prior to
the arising of both and is their source.
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From: The Lost Writings of Wu-Hsin: Pointers to Non-Duality in Five Volumes, translated by Roy Melvyn
Wu Hsin
