Mindless Understanding is Wu Hsin's clearest explanation of all that is and all that seems to be. For the first time, he directs our attention to what he refers to as the Energy. All that one can perceive is the movement of this Energy in the Conscious Presence that one is. There is nothing other than this Experiencing, and all things that spring from It are Its experiences. The painter is in every painting.

Do we possess an individual self or soul that is separate from our physical biology or are we simply an enormously complex biological network that mechanically produces our hopes, aspirations, dreams, desires, humor, and passions? Disillusionment provides provocative insights into this ages-old question and challenges the reader to re-examine their most closely held beliefs.

Is there a distinction between the experience of consciousness and the consciousness of experience? Is there a line that separates the two or are they the very Oneness that is sought after by so many? In Seeking the End of Seeking, Roy Melvyn examines this and other issues such as: 1. When did I become "me"? 2. How do you locate that which can't be described? 3. How do you know when you are dreaming? 4. By what light is darkness discerned? Taken from personal journal entries and talks with other curious seekers, the author traverses this landscape with boldness and insight. Students of zen,...

When one reduces and eventually eradicates this false identification with worldly phenomena, including the inner phenomena of thoughts and images, what is discerned is what was and is always already the case. The instruction of Wu Hsin to disciple Xu Fengqin directly calls for a dissociation of one's sense of identity from the panoply of spatiotemporal objects and events that rise and subside in the world that presents itself. In so doing, the I-me-mine complex dissolves and that which is antecedent to all becomes clear.

Throughout many centuries, religion and philosophy have sought to rescue man from his ego; both have failed. The last thousand years of acquired knowledge has made man neither more peaceful nor happier. Our energies must be redirected away from acquiring more knowledge regarding the world and inquiring into why all our knowledge has failed us. Only then can man begin to understand that the solution does not reside outside. The solution is not exoteric, but instead esoteric. The intellect seeks to make the unknown knowable. Memory, is the storage of the known. It is re-cognition, knowing...

The real life of Wu Hsin is a historical puzzle that may well never be resolved. Long lost texts have emerged from more than two milennia beneath the soil in South China. Written on bamboo and silk and entombed in burial sites of sages of the Southern Region, the writings of Wu Hsin are indeed a treasure. In this volume, he takes his students on an interior journey, figuratively and literally. Leaving their mountaintop hermitage, the students send several months inside Water Cave, during which time the Master expounds a timeless wisdom in his inimitable style.