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... Wei Wu Wei Selections Selected sayings and quotations from Wei Wu Wei. His books are available from Sentient Publications here. There is no becoming. All is. To acquire knowledge should not be our first aim, but rather to rid ourselves of ignorance — which is false-knowledge. 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. The practice of non-meditation is ceasing to be the seer, hearer or speaker while eyes, ears and mouths are fulfilling their function in daily life. How many of the ways (disciplines, exercises, practices) recommended as helpful, or even necessary, for the attainment of Satori are not in fact consequences of that state erroneously suggested as means? In order to be effective, truth must
penetrate like an arrow — The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego. It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false 'me' no longer identifies with his suffering. The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded. I have only one object in writing books: to demonstrate that there could not be anyone to do it. There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious. 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. What is your trouble? Mistaken identity. There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. As long as there is a you doing
or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, A man who is seeking for realisation is not only going round searching for his spectacles without realising 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! Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!
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