Wei Wu Wei

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.

— Wei Wu Wei

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

— Wei Wu Wei

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

— Wei Wu Wei

There is no becoming. ALL IS.

— Wei Wu Wei

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

— Wei Wu Wei

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?

— Wei Wu Wei

There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.

— Wei Wu Wei

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

— Wei Wu Wei

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

— Wei Wu Wei

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

— Wei Wu Wei

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!

— Wei Wu Wei

Why are you unhappy? And there isn't one.

— Wei Wu Wei

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

— Wei Wu Wei

Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.

— Wei Wu Wei

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

— Wei Wu Wei

One must know that one is not in order to be able to understand that we are.

— Wei Wu Wei

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.

— Wei Wu Wei

There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.

— Wei Wu Wei

The Buddha forbore to specify: as long as there is any "one" to suffer — he will.

— Wei Wu Wei

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

— Wei Wu Wei