Wei Wu Wei

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

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you do is for yourself. And there
isn’t one.
– Wei Wu Wei

Go to the Awakened Masters – and leave all your baggage behind.
– Wei Wu Wei

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

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 yourself? Give him another kick, you
deserve it!
– Wei Wu Wei

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

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

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

This which is seeking is that which is sought, and that which is sought is this which is
seeking.
– Wei Wu Wei

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.
– 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

Wise men don’t judge: They seek to understand.
– Wei Wu Wei

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

Fear, desire, affectivity are manifestations of the pseudo-entity which constitutes
pseudo-bondage. It is the entity, rather than the manifestations thereof, which has to be
eliminated.
– Wei Wu Wei

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

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears
and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world. The practice of non-meditation is ceasing
to be the see-er, hearer or speaker while eyes, ears and mouths are fulfilling their function in
daily life.
– Wei Wu Wei

Let us live gladly! Quite certainly we are free to do it. Perhaps it is our only freedom, but ours
it is, and it is only phenomenally a freedom. “Living free” is being “as one is.” Can we not do it
now? Indeed can we not-do-it? It is not even a “doing”: It is beyond doing and not-doing. It is
being as-we-are.
– Wei Wu Wei

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

As long as we are identified with an object: That is bondage.
– Wei Wu Wei

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

It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false “me” no
longer identifies with his suffering.
– Wei Wu Wei

Detachment is a state, it is not a totalisation of achieved indifferences.
– 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

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

Humility, metaphysically, implies the absence of any entity to be either proud or humble.
– Wei Wu Wei

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