Wei Wu Wei Quotes

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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.

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Thinking, Unhappy, Percent

"Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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

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Play, Roles, Comedy

"Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen - Advaita - Tantra". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1960.

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

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Drinking, Tea, Disciple

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

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Never Forget, Forget

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

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Ideas, Ego, Possessed

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

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Self, Bags, Packs

Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.212, Sentient Publications

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

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Humility, Pride, Mind

Wu Wei Wei (2003). “The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh)”, p.1, Sentient Publications

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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!

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Dog, Men, Giving

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

Wei Wu Wei

Seeking

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

Wei Wu Wei

Wise, Wisdom, Men

"Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1958.

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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

"Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen - Advaita - Tantra". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1960.

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

Wei Wu Wei

Inability, Mystery, Obvious

"All Else Is Bondage: Non-Volitional Living". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1964.

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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!

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Men, Noses, Realization

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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

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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

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

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Evil, World, Unhappiness

"Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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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.

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Seeing

Wei Wu Wei (2004). “All Else is Bondage: Non-volitional Living”, p.10, Sentient Publications

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

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Hurt, Order, Arrows

Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Posthumous Pieces”, p.55, Sentient Publications

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

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Thinking, Long, Phenomenal

Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.52, Sentient Publications

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

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Men, Discipline, Ego

"Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1958.

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What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

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Identity, Trouble, Mistaken

"Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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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.

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Home, Thinking, Long

Wu Wei Wei (2003). “The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh)”, p.240, Sentient Publications

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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.

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Reality, Two, Quality

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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.

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Important, Lines, Common

Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.24, Sentient Publications

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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

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Born: September 14, 1895
Died: January 5, 1986
Occupation: Philosopher
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