Wei Wu Wei > Quotes

“Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”
― Wei Wu Wei

“Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role.”
― Wei Wu Wei

“Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!”
― Wei Wu Wei

“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. ”
― Wei Wu Wei

“THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought,
and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.”
― Wei Wu Wei, All Else Is Bondage: Non-Volitional Living

“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.”
― Wu Wei Wei

“Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.”
― Wei Wu Wei

“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.”
― Wu Wei Wei

“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?”
― Wei Wu Wei

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you do is for yourself And there isn't one.

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― Wei Wu Wei

“There is no such thing as a dog”
― Wei Wu Wei, Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen--Advaita--Tantra

“The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.”
― Wei Wu Wei

“As long as subject is centred in a phenomenal object, and thinks and speaks therefrom, subject is identified with that object and is bound. As long as such condition obtains, the identified subject can never be free—for freedom is liberation from that identification. Abandonment of a phenomenal centre constitutes the only 'practice', and such abandonment is not an act volitionally performed by the identified subject, but a
non-action (wu wei) leaving the noumenal centre in control of phenomenal activity, and free from fictitious interference by an imaginary 'self.
Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an
imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

Could any statement be more classic?
Could any statement be more obvious?
Could any statement be more vital?
Yet—East and West—how many observe it?
So
Could any statement be more needed?”
― Wei Wu Wei

“We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.”
― Wei Wu Wei

“The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.”
― Wei wu wei

“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.”
― Wei Wu Wei

“It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.”
― Wei wu wei

“It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false “me” no longer identifies himself with his suffering.”
― Wei Wu Wei, Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way

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