Wei Wu Wei Quotes

The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.

Spontaneity is being present in the present.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre?
As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

Only an object can suffer, but phenomenally subject and object, being one whole, spin like a coin so that the intervals between pile et face (heads and tails) are imperceptible. Consequently pain, or pleasure, appear to be continual.

Noumenally, on the contrary, there is no object to suffer pain or pleasure. Noumenon is invulnerable, and cannot be otherwise. Noumenon is the unmanifested aspect of what we, sentient beings, are: Phenomenon is our manifestation.

Wise men don't judge: They seek to understand.

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.

Do you realise that when you give a schilling to a beggar you are giving it to yourself?Do you realise that when you help a dog over a stile you yourself are being helped?Do you realise when you kick a man when he is down, you are kicking yourslef?Give him another kick, you deserve it!

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream.
'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by.
'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed.
But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered,
'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude.

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.

It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.

Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more ... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance

A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!

The saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?

Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.

THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought,
and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false "me" no longer identifies himself with his suffering.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.

Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking.

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.

All comparison is based on memory, and memory is an image based on engrams. It follows that all judgement, evaluation, is an interpretation of images, for even the present is already a memory by the time we have seized it.
Therefore the unending process of finding things "good" or "not so good" is a work of imagination. Would in not be futile indeed to suppose that such judgments, that is any and all judgments, could have any absolute existence or value?

There is no such thing as a dog

Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.