Wei Wu Wei Quotes

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

I AM Here Now As This

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.

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.

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

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

As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

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

Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.