The Illumination of Wu Hsin
5 primary works
Book 2
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.
Book 2
Book 3
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.
Book 3
Book 4
With No Other to Each Other, Wu Hsin raises the bar. No longer content to speak about the transcendent, he now addresses the immanent, clarifying that it is included in the transcendent. Such a view provides a resolution of the seeming incompatibility between the One and the many that has plagued philosophers since the beginnings of philosophy. It reminds one of the analogy of the fire and its sparks: the sparks that come off of a fire are both the same as that fire and different from it. They are the same insofar as they came from the fire, and are constituted by the same substance as fire. But they are also distinguishable from the original fire, as occupying a separate point in space. That-Which-Is contains both distinction and unity, substance and attribute, universal and particular, whole and parts, all the while maintaining the integrity of Identity immanent within differences.