Interconnections Between Eastern and Western Cultures

Interconnections Between Eastern and Western Cultures

About this Book

Chapter Zero

The Substitute Preface

Ⅰ The Civilization of Sages and Worthies and Modern Civilization

Ⅱ Knowledge of Wisdom

Chapter One

The Level of Worlds

Ⅰ The Three Great Worlds of Matter, Energy and Information

1. The Relationship between Matter, Energy and Information

2. The Law of Period and Cycle

3. The pure information structure with no information structure

II Altruism is Human Nature

III The Universe is Unified in Ground State Information

IV All Appearances are Empty and False.

Chapter Two

The Generation of All Things in the Universe

Lecture One  Concerning the Evolution of the Universe

Lecture Two  Theories and Mechanism of Evolution

I Evolutionary Theories in Eastern and Western Cultures

The Cosmic String theory and Taiji Tu Shuo

Exposition on the great wisdom in Yi Jing

Emptiness is produced in the great perception.

Dao produces one; the one produces two; the two produces three.

II All Dharmas are the Creation of the Mind.

Chapter Three

Problems Related to Epistemology

I Several Problems concerning Epistemology

1. “Water Knows” proves the non-duality of subject and object and unity of heaven and man

2. The pollution of human mind leads to environmental pollution

3. The “Sudden insight” in the History of Science

4. Direct manifestation and comparative manifestation

II Understanding Concerning Time and Space

III Sages’ Theories Concerning Knowledge

Understanding of differences

Turn consciousness into wisdom; go from difference to non-difference

3. Zhuang Zi’s theory on knowledge

4. Desire-based and desire-free cognitive channels

5. The pursuit of learning and the pursuit of Dao

6. There is only one; “Only the self is solely honored.”

Chapter Four

Order and Disorder

I The Open System

II Stay Away from the Equilibrium State

III Nonlinear Effect

IV Fluctuation Effect

V The Division of the Ten Dharma Realms

VI Brief Introduction to the Four Basic Laws of Thermodynamics

VII Development and Evolution

VIII The Phenomenon of Self-organization and Others

Chapter Five

The Phenomenon of the World is Discovered According to Karma

I Everything is an Upside-down perception displayed by Consciousness only.

II All Appearances Are Empty and False.

III The World Discovered is Based on the Karma Created.

1. The information structure of the “S” line

2. Greed, anger and stupidity result in flood, fire and wind.

3. Discovery made according to karma; capacity measured based on knowledge.

4. Show kindness and compassion for creatures and be a vegetarian.

5. Stop doing evil but do good

IV The Great Wisdom of Sages

Chapter Six

Life Forms and the Value of Life

Part 1 The Phenomenon of Life

I The Phenomenon of Life

1. The software-- the core of life

2. The cycle of life

3. Improve your software and upgrade your life form.

4. Four Types of Life Form

II Correct Outlooks on Life and Values

Part 2 The Essence of Life

I The Composition of Life

1. The relationship between software and hardware

2. Information structure determines life form.

3. The value of life and the summoning of goodness and evilness

II The Value and Significance of life

III Self-reflection and Practice

Chapter Seven

Polarization and Depolarization

I. The Sages’ Theories on Evolution and Return

1. “Dao” is zero and Wuji

2. Zhou Dunyi: Wuji transforms into Taiji; Taiji is originally Wuji.

3. “The two produces three.” “The three produces all things.”

II What is “interact in unseen force to achieve harmony”?

1. Inductions and feelings are “unseen force”

2. The whole universe is connected through feeling and induction.

III Polarization and Evolution of the World in the Eyes of the Buddha

Chapter Eight

The Way of Great Learning

I Eastern and Western Cultures are to be integrated

II Three States of World Existence

1. The three states embodied by the human body

2. Different systems of the human body

III The Way of Great Learning, a Means of Increasing the amount of Information

1. Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire; Manifest the bright virtue

2. “Love the people”- the great mind of same-body compassion

3. “Rest in the supreme goodness”

Chapter Nine

Movement and Change

I The Mechanism of Movement

1. All movements are expressions of difference

2. The shadow of the flying bird does not move.

3. Study the culture of sages and worthies to open wisdom.

II How do movement and change occur?

1. Things spring up in the very spot where they also come to an end.

2. The ultimate goal of human civilization

III The Law of Movement and Change

1. The chain of cause and condition

2. Spot the reality through the dharma of cause and condition.

3. The law of cause and effect

4. The heaven’s net casts wide and has big meshes, but nothing can slip through.

IV As soon as One Dharma Arises, the Ten Thousand Dharmas will Follow.

Chapter Ten

The Relativity of Polarity and Absoluteness of True Emptiness

I All Movements and Changes are Transformations of Appearances.

II Understanding the one-appearance of absolute vacuum

1. The characteristics of relativity and absoluteness

2. The truly empty absoluteness of one-appearance and non-duality

3 Everything moves in the absoluteness of true emptiness.

III The Existence of Relative Things.

IV The Information Structure of the “S” Line

1. It is information structure that makes us have to do.

2 Penetrate the cause of everything under heaven through “S” lines

3. Only the absoluteness of true emptiness exists.

V Three Suggestions to Transform a Mortal into a Sage

Chapter Eleven

Witness the Absolute Truth

I The Revelation of Color Blindness

II How to Spot the True Appearance

1. Seeing, hearing, sensing and knowing are all empty and false.

2. There is no falseness outside trueness; there is no trueness outside falseness.

3. Personally certify the absolute truth

III The Mind is Correspondent to the World

IV Purify the Mind and Sublimate the State.

Chapter Twelve

The Grand Unified Field

I The Mechanism and Principle of the Grand Unified Field

1. The principle of the “S” line

2. The unification perceived from the appearance of things

II Expressions of the Sages’ Great Wisdom

1. The still and unmoving Yi

2. “Neither production nor extinction”, “Suchness” and “The interdependence of the two ways.”

III Enter the Realm of Freedom from the Realm of Necessity

Chapter thirteen

Step into the Way of Sages

I Influence of the Correct Three Outlooks

II The Wisdom of Sages and Scientific Discoveries

1. The perfect and ultimate wisdom of sages

2. The theory of relativity proves no existence of subject and object.

3. Open up the original conscience

4. Inherit and carry forward the Way of sages

III Some statements from Sages and Science

1. Concerning the composition of matter

2. The sages’ theories on the evolution of the universe

3. Water moons and water have the same body and are not dualistic.

IV The Common Understanding of Sages and Worthies

1. Zero is all numbers and all numbers are zero.

2. There is only one.

3. The universe is not evolution but direct manifestation

4. “Stick-or-yell”, a superb teaching method

V Mankind is in Movement and Change

1. Two types of spontaneity and their applications

2. The importance of nucleation

3. Which do you refer, egoism or altruism?

4. The Mode of motion and relative existence

5. Understand cause and condition, and return to the original source

VI Enter the Primary Meaning; Turn a Mortal into a Sage

1. All dharmas have no production, no destruction, no appearance and no action.

2. Zhuang Zi’s theory on equalizing things

Chapter Fourteen

The Comprehensive

I Fu Xi’s Great Wisdom

II Eastern Tathagata and Western Tathagata

III The Interconnection of the Sages’ wisdoms

IV The Three Lectures on Confucianism

1. The Three Outlines in Great Learning

2. The “Nature”, “Way” and “Teaching” in Zhong Yong

3. The Mind-Method of Confucianism

V A Lightless Flower

VI Achievement at Ease

VII Change the Software Programs of life

VIII Appendix (1): The Flower Adornment Sutra

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