The Secret Codes of the Mind: Eastern Philosophy

By Andrew V. Kudin

Can a human being remain free when suffering, desire, power, and death set the terms of life?
India, China, and Japan gave different answers to this question. Each answer demanded discipline.

THE SECOND REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION

Eastern Philosophy is Volume III of The Secret Codes of the Mind, the six-volume academic philosophy textbook by Dr. Andrew V. Kudin, built on nearly four decades of teaching and research. Here philosophy leaves the page and enters the habits by which a life is formed.

India searches for release from craving, ignorance, and the wheel of return. The Vedas and Upanishads, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, the six darśanas - Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya, Mīmāṃsā, Yoga, Vedānta - and the paths of Tantra and Kashmir Shaivism examine consciousness, liberation, knowledge, discipline, and the transformation of the self.

China draws thought into family, ritual, government, language, and the pressure of moral order. Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, Neo-Confucianism, and Sunzi reveal philosophy as a force that shapes conduct, statecraft, education, harmony, resistance, and the practice of living within reality without surrendering to disorder.

Japan gives thought the form of posture, silence, and practice. Shinto, Zen, Pure Land devotion, Bushidō, Kokugaku, and the Kyoto School turn philosophy toward ritual gesture, samurai discipline, aesthetic impermanence, and the difficult beauty of a vanishing world.

This edition is written for students, instructors, and independent readers who want a disciplined path through the traditions that still shape Asian civilizations and the modern world.

Built for active study:

- Clear lecture structure for classroom and independent learning
- Discussion questions for analysis, debate, and reflection
- Recommended readings leading toward primary sources
- Analytical assignments connecting philosophical ideas to lived experience

Eastern philosophy records what human beings did when life spared no one, and inner freedom had to be fought for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1971325287
• ISBN13: 9781971325286
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Kudin & Sons Academic Press
• Length: 772 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"