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Let Go!

Theory and Practice of Detachment  according to Zen

By HUBERT BENOIT

Translated by Albert w. Low

London

George Allen & Unwin Ltd

Ruskin House Museum Street

Author’s Preface

This book represents a culmination of thoughts which made up The supreme Doctrine (1). In spite of their theoretical form, these studies have a practical aim; the aim of all theory, when it concerns human realization, id essentially practical.

The Supreme Doctrine, however, did not reach a solution to the question of an effective technique for ‘letting-go’. I did not know then if such a technique were possible or if intuitive understanding would be sufficient.

Since then I have come to the conclusion that a special ‘exercise ‘must intervene in order to actualize our understanding. The third part of this present work is entirely devoted to this exercise, to the analysis of language – an analysis on which this exercise is based – and to the necessary condition a long preamble, but it is very necessary that they should be read in order to understanding the end of the book. The ideas of the Zen about realization are so disturbing to our usual opinions that I felt I had to gather together as many viewpoints as possible to support these ideas.

(1) The Supreme Doctrine, Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1955

Contents

Part one

1. Preparation for Sudden Illumination
2. Outer and Inner Perception – Sensing and Feeling
3. ‘Experiencing’
4. The will to Experience: Its Contradictory Nature
5. The Birth of Thought
6. Conscious and Impartial Thought

Part two

1. The three cosmic planes
2. The conflict of Human life
3. The idea of Perfection
4. The Inner Lacerations of Man
5. The Illusory ‘Enigma’ of Death
6. The Aim of Intellectual Research

Part three

1. The Hierarchy of Psycho motive Power
2. The complete Constitution of Man
3. The Structure of the World of Speech
4. Two mental Automatisms
5. The Word
6. The Association of Ideas
7. The Expression of thought
8. The Hypnotic Nature of Our Ordinary attention
9. Non-Convergent Language
10. Non-Convergent Language (continued)
11. Spirituals Methods
12. The Approach of Satori
13. The Conditions Required for Inner Counter-work to be Effective

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