3W 69

'Nearer my tail to thee', the kitten remarked -
as with a final desperate leap she overreached herself
and fell head-over-heels into the pond.
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~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 68

Destroy 'the ego', hound it, beat it, snub it, tell it where it gets off?
Great fun, no doubt, but where is it? Must you not find it first?
Isn't there a word about catching your goose before you can cook it?

The great difficulty here is that there isn't one.

~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 67

Affective fixation on the personality of a master, teacher, guru, is a serious obstacle to 'liberation': the person of the liberator becomes the gaoler ... The Chinese Masters told their monks to kill the Buddha if by chance they met him.
~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 66

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

~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 65

Whoever thinks as, from, or on behalf of, an entity which he believes himself to be, the more so if he tries to work on himself, by, with, or for such an entity - which is only a concept in mind - has not yet begun to understand what it is all about.
~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 64

The Buddha forbore to specify: as long as there is any 'one' to suffer - he will.
~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 63

The seeker is the found, the found is the seeker -
as soon as it is apperceived that there is no time.
~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 62

'Sudden Enlightenment' means precisely the immediate apperception of all that in fact we are.

'Enlightenment' is 'sudden' only because it is not in 'time' (subject to sequential duration). It is reintegration in intemporality.
~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 61

If we clearly apperceive the difference
Between direct apprehension in Whole-mind
And relative comprehension by reasoning
In mind divided into subject-and-object,
All the apparent mysteries will disappear.

For that will be found to be the key
Which unlocks the doors of incomprehension.

~ A selection from Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 60

Having found no self that is not other,
The seeker must find that there is no other that is not self,
So that in the absence of both other and self,
There may be known the perfect peace,
Of the presence of absolute absence.

~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 59

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.

~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 58

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.
~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 57

Everything cognised is just what is called 'mind',
And what is called 'mind' is just the cognising of everything.

~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 56

Humility, metaphysically, implies the absence of any entity to be either 'proud' or 'humble'.
~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 55

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 54

What we appear to be is a fleeting shadow, a distorted and fragmentary reflection of what we all are when we no longer assume that we are that phenomenal appearance.
~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 53

I have only one object in writing books:
to demonstrate that there could not be anyone to do it.

~ A selection from The Tenth Man by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 52

What is non-objective relation?

Wherever there are others there is a self,
Wherever there are no others there can be no self,
Wherever there is no self there are no others,
Because in the absence of self I am all others.

That is non-objective relation.

~ A selection from Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 51

The identified man takes part: the unidentified looks on!
~ A selection from Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~

3W 50

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.
~ A selection from Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei. Click here for more from this book. ~