Wei Wu Wei famous quotes

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

#Play #Roles #Comedy

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

#Drinking #Tea #Teapots

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

#Humility #Pride #Mind

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

#Real #Past #Moments

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

#Important #Lines #Common

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

#Hurt #Arrows #Order

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

#Thinking #Unhappy

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

#Other Half #Half #Window

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.
-- Wei Wu Wei

#Life #Should #Benediction

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

#Men #Discipline #Ego

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

#Thinking #Long #Phenomenal

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!
-- Wei Wu Wei

#Men #Realization #Able

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

I AM Here Now As This
-- 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

#Understanding #Doctrine #Scripture

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

#Self #Bags #Packs

Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.
-- Wei Wu Wei

#Drinking #Tea #Teapots

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

#Home #Thinking #Long

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.
-- Wei Wu Wei

#Life #Dream #Real

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

#Arrogant #Life Is #Human Life

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

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

As long as one accepts 'time' tacitly as such he is dreaming a drea, not living a life.
-- Wei Wu Wei

#Dream #Time #Long

The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.
-- Wei Wu Wei

#Real #Awakening #Consciousness

Spontaneity is being present in the present.
-- Wei Wu Wei

#Spontaneity

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

#Reality

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

#Quality #Matter #Satisfaction

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.
-- Wei Wu Wei

#Identity #Trouble #Mistaken

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

#Recovery #Spontaneity #Reintegration

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

#Eye #Practice #Meditation

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

#Growth #Matter #Should

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

#Ideas #Ego

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

#Inability #Mystery #Obvious

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

#Evil #World #Unhappiness

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

#Matter #Becoming #Conscious