Wei Wu Wei Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I AM Here Now As This

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

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

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

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

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

Spontaneity is being present in the present.

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

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.