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Thinking is body thinking in concrete thinking performing story thinking. Storythinking creates the world. This volume is on our pivotal concrete thinking that is coherent in the concrete and in the thinking. Concrete thinking is systematic yet never settles in any set system, ever open out indefinitely as storytelling cannot end anywhere definitive once started. Concrete thinking in story thinking is bodythought actuality thinking. And so this volume on concrete thinking spreads out into all miscellaneous themes and directions, as any concrete actuality happens to dictate. Seven parts are displayed.

This new book describes how nonsense in our daily living are dilemmas beyond our handling, which thereby makes us realize our nonsense is our access to the Beyond as deep Nonsense. Our description of daily dilemmas beyond us makes us sense them as our secret Open Sesame to the Beyond quite beyond us to suffuse and support us. Nothing is more enthralling and essential to our existence than this thrilling odyssey into the Beyond-Nonsense as our Matrix of living. We unpack this compact complex in this stimulating volume.

Not many scholars have noticed'globalization'as a thinking-horizon, and much less, begun engaging in its exploration. This book calls attention to this exciting dimension of globalization. Volume I is divided into'problems and prospects'and'cultural intercourse.'The book presents concrete and specific problems and prospects kicked up by globalization including world economics of cancellation of debt of developing nations; Africa's problem of knowledge production; economic problems of foreign aids in Bangladesh; infusion of Taoism to Western therapy of anxiety and globalizing counseling paradigm. This book also presents unique perspectives on the causes and solutions to the problem of today's globalization.

Story-thinking is direct actuality-thinking; actuality is active and alive, never set or formal but free and reasonable. Actuality is things as they are alive, actively actualizing themselves, birthing unceasing. They sound forth to resound, vibrate to inter-vibrate, tell to retell it, to reveal-R to express-E it. This “R to E” is not logically inferential, free of inferential error. Such R-to-E process dialogically transmits across an instant as “story-thinking.” Story-thinking primordially hears of actuality to story-express it. Thus, actuality sounds itself—tells its story—to a sensitive hearer who retells the story-actual in her own resonance, and her vibration is “storytelling.” Actuality tells and is heard, and storytelling comes about. Story-thinking begins at storytelling to continue storytelling, this way.

We usually think that'thinking'is objective, abstractive, logical and systematic. Besides thinking about things in Western mode, though, we also think concretely, intersubjectively, historically and coherently in story-form. Chinese thinking enters deep into'here now'to make sense, to sense what is going on since yester-years. Story-thinking comprehensively expresses their webs of history, which is an'open system'of no system that keeps growing in time. The West thinks alphabetically, i.e., digitally and analytically; China expresses thinking in ideogram-audiograms holistically to metaphor in time and space. This book elucidates Chinese thinking that makes sense of what goes on, sensitive to depths of sense of the concrete.

Thorough, serious, yet fun to read, this is a translation of the text and an exposition of the philosophy of Chuang Tzu the Taoist of ancient China.Chuang Tzu's first three chapters are arranged into free verse (in Chinese, in the original word order) and translated, nearly word-for-word, with extensive critical glosses vis-a-vis over fifty Chinese, Japanese, and Western commentators. The exegetical, philosophical, and contemporary implications of these chapters are then meditated upon. Here, in Chuang Tzu's world, all strivings are a play, parodying stories and arguments; each plays off of and refers to the others.Chuang Tzu lived during the third and fourth centuries B.C. Historically, he is the foremost spokesman for Taoism and its legendary founder, Lao Tzu. It was mainly due to the influence of Chuang Tzu that Indian Buddhism was transformed in China into Ch'an into the unique vehicle we usually call by its Japanese name, Zen.This is the most thorough presentation to date of the Chuang Tzu's poetic beauty, philosophical insights, and unity.Kuang-ming Wu is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.