Wei Wu Wei Quotes

#1. 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.

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#3. The saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

Wei Wu Wei

#4. 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.

Wei Wu Wei

#5. 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

#6. Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.

Kevin Kwan

#7. Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

Wei Wu Wei

#8. Spontaneity is being present in the present.

Wei Wu Wei

#9. People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world.

Wu Wei

#10. 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

#11. It is true that we are in charge of our imaginations, and by using them to imagine wonderful futures for ourselves, and by acting on that basis, it will follow, unerringly, that for us, it will be so.

Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#13. To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.

Wu Wei

#14. Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one.

Wei Wu Wei

#15. To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them to the achievement of lofty goals.

Wu Wei

#16. I AM Here Now As This

Wei Wu Wei

#17. 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!

Wei Wu Wei

#18. What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

Wei Wu Wei

#19. In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

John Daido Loori

#20. To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.

Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#23. 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

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

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#28. Slingerland explains that Chinese philosophers like Confucius, Lao Tse, Zhuangzi, and a few others were concerned with accessing a state called Wu-Wei, pronounced "ooh-way." This is a state of spontaneous flow.

Anonymous

#29. Wise men don't judge: They seek to understand.

Wei Wu Wei

#30. 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.

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#32. Every plan in which we participate has one constant, ourselves. Not that we are always the same, but that we are always part of the plan. All else comes and goes: friends, parents, possessions, conditions, situations, and associates, leaving only us, ourselves.

Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#34. 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!

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#37. What we desire, what we work for, or what we seek after, are those things that merely lead us along the paths of our lives.

Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#39. Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.

Chungliang Al Huang

#40. A quiet-hearted person awakes with a smile on his lips and an eagerness in his heart for the day ahead.

Wu Wei

#41. Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.

CLAMP

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

Wei Wu Wei

#43. There is no such thing as a dog

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#44. 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

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

Wei Wu Wei

#46. 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

#47. To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.

Wu Wei

#48. The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.

Wu Wei

#49. 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

#50. Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition.

Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

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

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#53. A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

Laozi

#54. As long as one accepts 'time' tacitly as such
he is dreaming a drea, not living a life.

Wei Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei

#56. Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

Wei Wu Wei

#57. 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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#58. The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment - that is the way.

Wu Wei

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

Wei Wu Wei