Wei wu Wei Ching: A Pocket Manual for Attaining Enlightenment

by Brian Browne Walker

Wei wu Wei Ching puts a collection of diamond cutting tools in the pocket of anyone who wants to realize enlightenment, the Self, Big Mind. While realization ultimately cannot be surrounded or captured with words, along the way they have power. It is possible to catalyze the transformation of ordinary understanding into Diamond Mind with them.

The text is configured as an oracular text, just like the I Ching, to facilitate concentration upon a particular teaching with respect to a specific question. It centers primarily around wei wu wei, the ancient Taoist notion that translates roughly to “doing not-doing”. By whatever name or not-name, this practice is the core teaching of every enlightenment tradition in the world.

Enlightenment is a real thing, the realest thing, the pearl beyond all other pearls. The emphasis on doing non-doing here stems from the universal understanding across the world’s spiritual cultures that attaining it is more often a matter of leaning back into it than of bearing down upon it.

The teachings of the Wei wu Wei Ching are sourced in Tao, Ch’an, Zen, Sufism, Native American spirituality, Tibetan Buddhism, Advaita, yoga, and other traditions less easily named. They come from the mountains of China, the monasteries (and whorehouses!) of Japan, the clouds above Persia, a red road in Montana, the jungles of the Amazon, the earth of the Earth.

78 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 4, 2013

Reviews

[John Fredrickson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. It is an easy read - basically a verse for each of the I-Ching's 64 hexagrams. These verses are enigmatic, but they give a gentle push to relax and "be" rather than strive for enlightenment.

[tinythunders]

personally feel like anyone translating this will never be able to fully do it justice but this was a good starting point for me i think