http://www.metafilter.com/tags/terencegray Posts tagged with 'terencegray' at MetaFilter. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:58:42 -0800 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:58:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72963/Wei%2DWu%2DWei <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_wu_wei">Terence Gray</a> was an English born aristocrat of an Irish family. He tried his hand at Egyptology, drama and theater, but gave it up to keep the family vineyards in the Monaco. He owned the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarathustra_(horse)">winner</a> of the 1957 Ascot Gold cup. <a href="http://www.weiwuwei.8k.com/intro.html">He also became a mystic</a>. Writing as Wei Wu Wei, he <a href="http://www.sentientpublications.com/catalog/wei_special.php">produced</a> <a href="http://www.thespiritworks.com/wei_wu_wei_books.htm">8 little books</a> between 1958 and 1974. They are <a href="http://web.ionsys.com/~remedy/WEI%20WU%20WEI.htm">articulate</a>, <a href="http://www.weiwuwei.8k.com/aeibv.html">witty</a>, and above all <a href="http://www.thespiritworks.com/wei-wu-wei-biography.html">informed</a> by a vast knowledge of Zen, Taoist and Hindu <a href="http://www.weiwuwei.8k.com/links.html">intellectual tradition</a>. <a href="http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/sml/1844710041.htm">Beholden to none</a>, he makes increasing sense in a modern context. Many of his insights are very close to some current views within <a href="http://www.interdisciplines.org/enaction">cognitive science</a> and the <a href="http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/varela.htm">philosophy of mind</a>. But <a href="http://www.expo-cosmos.or.jp/letter/letter12e.html">cognitive science</a> has flirted with Buddhism before. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72963 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:58:42 -0800 buddhism cognitivescience mysticism taoism terencegray weiwuwei fcummins