Essay - Eastern Philosophy Think. Don't Think. from the Beginning This Has...

Eastern Philosophy

Think. Don't Think. From the beginning this has been one of the primary differences between Eastern and Western *****. Generally Western systems attempt to think and rationalize a system of philosophy based on experience ***** create a logic *****ory on the meaning ***** life. In Eastern philosophy, thinking is part of the discursive mind and clouds the actual perception of reality, so don't think, experience. In the West experience is explained in words, in the East, words are slowly pealed away so one can experience reality directly. Think. Don't Think. ***** fact the Tao*****t text, The Tao Te Ching, opens with the following, "***** Way that ***** be told is not the Unvarying Way, ***** names that can be named ***** not the unvarying *****." (Morre 149) So, in essence, words always fall short of the true meaning of experience. ***** philosophy must be felt and experienced rather than thought about. In these philosophies there ***** not just the mind but the heart-***** from which underst*****ing comes, something the west ***** separated into two distinct entities. It is intelligence versus emotion instead of a combination of the ***** when talking about *****.

One of these *****icular concepts is one that ***** also difficult to translate correctly and that is wu-wei. Initially a Taoist concept, wu-wei si commonly transliterated as inaction, but I *****lieve this allows for a mistaken perception regarding the term. The ***** does not seem ***** call for no activity or no action, but ***** else more in l*****e with the idea that one should "avoid the error ***** overdoing" (Morre 150) and flow like the Tao in all things. Perhaps translated using the word, effortlessness, gives one a better understanding of ***** *****. Without ***** ***** lets the act unfold. I am doing this now as ***** type this sentence. I find that when ***** type I am ***** thinking where the letters are on the keyboard or how even my brain is sending the messages ***** the thoughts to my fingers then the keys and to eventually wind up on the monitor. *****n fact, when I do stop to think about it I find *****self fumbling for the keys and the process is unable to flow smoothly ***** the act. This thinking about ***** is committing the ***** of overdoing that was quoted earlier.

What ********** culture calls "second nature" such as typing, walking, driving a c*****r, etc., are all high level orders of *****. These also represent times when the doer of the action is at one with the act ***** *****ing with it, effortlessly, not ***** about it but simply doing it Or being ***** ***** *****. There ***** no separation between the actor and the act. This is non-dualism, which is ano*****r Eastern concept. The person and the action are not two separate things, but the convention of our language makes them so, always a subject and a verb. ***** difference in language between Eastern and Western cultures also *****s some