As Good As It Gets

The Words of "Wei Wu Wei"

Collected from various of this person’s writings, who sought anonymity as author. The source of these quotes, which I have assembled, is http://www.weiwuwei.8k.com/index.html

His writing is occasionally heavy in expression for today, but his "pointing at the moon", in the English language, is done as clear as one can do.

Of himself, Wei Wu Wei once said,

"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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There is no becoming. ALL IS.
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We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.
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Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.
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Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.
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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.
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When you give a shilling to a beggar- do you realise that you are giving it to yourself?

When you help a lame dog over a stile- do you realise that you yourself are being helped?

When you kick a man when he is down- do you realise that you are kicking yourself?

Give him another kick - if you deserve it!
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Reality alone exists - and that we are. All the rest is only a dream, a dream of the One Mind, which is our mind without the 'our'. Is it so hard to accept? Is it so difficult to assimilate and to live?
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Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality.

The now-moment alone is eternal and real.
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Spontaneity is being present in the present.

Spontaneity by-passes the processes of the conceptual (aspect of) mind.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.
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All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

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The Void is not of the nature of a black abyss or a bottomless pit.

Rather is its nature 'vast and expansive like space itself'.

It is apprehended as 'serene, marvellous, all-pure, brilliant and all-inclusive'.

Above all does it partake of the nature of light.

And it is not anything. For Void is Mind Itself, and Mind Itself is Void.
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It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
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Let us live gladly! Quite certainly we are free to do it. Perhaps it is our only freedom, but ours it is, and it is only phenomenally a freedom. 'Living free' is being 'as one is'. Can we not do it now? Indeed can we not-do-it? It is not even a 'doing': it is beyond doing and not-doing.

It is being as-we-are.

This is the only 'practice'.

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

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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.

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