Quotes from Wei Wu Wei

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.

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

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

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.

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

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

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

There is no such thing as a dog

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

All comparison is based on memory, and memory is an image based on engrams. It follows that all judgement, evaluation, is an interpretation of images, for even the present is already a memory by the time we have seized it. Therefore the unending process of finding things "good" or "not so good" is a work of imagination. Would in not be futile indeed to suppose that such judgments, that is any and all judgments, could have any absolute existence or value?

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

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. 'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by. 'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered, 'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude.

It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false "me" no longer identifies himself with his suffering.

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

It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.

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.

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.

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.

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

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

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.

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

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