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"Why?"
As there are many perspectives,
There can be many answers.
Yet, in the end,
The best answer to "Why?" is
Why not?
- Wu Hsin
It is man
Who is in movement
Against the background of immobility.
But who moves the moved?
- Wu Hsin
We are afloat in
The Great River.
All are carried along.
Some swim against the flow.
They, too, are carried along.
- Wu Hsin
The departure from what is natural is
The birthplace of personality.
The world of persons is
A solitary place,
Each separate and alone.
To achieve peace,
One must retrace the way one came.
- Wu Hsin
What is latent and
What is dormant are
Not the same.
The dormant arises and sets;
The latent ever is.
- Wu Hsin
Only the fool
Seeks to stop
The shaking of
The moon's reflection on the water.
The acceptance of what
Cannot be changed
Paves the way to
The changeless.
- Wu Hsin
All of the world, with its
Past, present and future,
Arises every morning and
Sets every night,
To arise again the next day.
The knower of this has moved
Out of involvement and
Into the understanding that
In order for this world to be known,
The knower must precede it.
- Wu Hsin
The one who considers himself
To be free
Is free.
The one who considers himself
To be bound
Is bound.
The only prison is mental.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin has no sumptuous buffet
Presented on a silver platter.
The offering is basic fare,
To be eaten and fully savored.
Then, there is nothing remaining
For one to do.
- Wu Hsin
Controlling the mind doesn't
Take one to freedom.
Controlling the mind
Adds another link
To one's shackles.
- Wu Hsin
Regardless of how fast one runs
There is no escape
From oneself.
The impetus of this escape is
This state which is
Believed to be unsatisfactory.
To succeed, one must relinquish
The smaller for
The greater.
- Wu Hsin
Whereas pain is
A physical experience
Suffering is a mental one.
It is the sense that
Things should be
Other than they are.
Its antidote is
Acceptance.
- Wu Hsin
The trance of separateness is
The jail.
The imagination is
The jailer.
When one no longer believes
What one imagines oneself to be,
The cell door opens and
The realization dawns that
A life filled up with being somebody is
An empty existence.
- Wu Hsin
When the waterwheel stops turning,
What happens to
The energy that turned it?
Is it said to be used up or
That it remains dormant,
To turn again?
When the body dies,
What dies and
What goes on?
That which animated the body
Ceases to do so.
This That is not affected and
The cycle continues.
- Wu Hsin
Gods and their universes
- Wu Hsin
There is no difference between
That which dwells
Within a sparrow and
That which dwells in
The body of man.
Two instruments;
One large,
The other small.
- Wu Hsin
The best altar has
Nothing on it.
- Wu Hsin
What Wu Hsin says
Requires no explanation.
Explanation requires concepts and
Cogitation.
That is not the way.
Wu Hsin plants the seed in the soil;
It grows at its own pace.
- Wu Hsin
Openness has no location in particular.
It contains everything.
It contains thoughts and
The absence of thoughts.
It contains feelings and no feelings,
Sights and no sights,
Sounds and silence.
Within openness,
Everything is invited and
Everything is accepted.
There is no way
To be open because
There is no difference between
Being open and
Being.
- Wu Hsin
In human beings,
There is a need
To create order
Out of what is
Perceived to be chaos.
This ordering mechanism is
The mind.
As such, the mind seeks causes
To explain what it
Doesn't understand.
Is the carrot the cause of the chicken soup
Or is it the chicken
Or is it the broth
Or is it the cook?
With the apperception that
Everything is perfect as it is, that
Everything causes everything else,
The mind, as fixer,
As judge,
As organizer,
Loses its relevance.
- Wu Hsin
Words are the net used
To capture the world.
Mind is the means used
To devour the world.
Both fail;
Can the wind be kept in
A box?
Truth is halved when
It is told.
- Wu Hsin
A common misconception is
The belief that thinking is
The creation of thought.
Rather, it is
The reception of thought from
A source which has no name and
From a place that cannot be found.
Since one can't decide to think
Nor can one decide
Thoughts' contents,
Why does one
Claim their ownership?
Or tasted?
At the core, Wu Hsin asks:
How is immanence discerned?
The answer is known to those
Who understand that
There is no difference
Between the substance and
That which animates it.
- Wu Hsin
The Ultimate Understanding is
An impersonal event
Occurring in phenomenality.
As such, there is no need for you,
Or any you
To be concerned about it.
Go about your business and
Enjoy life.
- Wu Hsin
For many,
The first step on
A spiritual journey is to
Become lost.
The final step is
Losing one's self.
- Wu Hsin
To draw water from this well
Called Wu Hsin,
One must bring a bucket and
Ten feet of rope.
Most arrive with eight feet of rope,
Then leave,
Believing the well to be dry.
It is as it is.
- Wu Hsin
Life is experienced
As a series of events
Happening to an individual.
Wu Hsin says:
Life is happening.
The individual is merely
No surface and
No depth, then
There is only here and
There is no place else to go.
- Wu Hsin
One is carried on a raft
Within a floating stream.
One is neither the raft nor
The stream yet
The perceiver of both.
- Wu Hsin
What is natural
Follows no laws nor
Requires any.
Can there be a rule for
The beating of the heart or
The blackness of the raven?
There is a natural rhythm to
The workings of the world.
Some are discernable
While others cannot be discerned.
It is the dance
Between the two that
Creates action.
- Wu Hsin
Trust that what brought you here
Will take you there.
- Wu Hsin
The Infinite has no preferences.
It kisses both the darkness and
The light equally.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin speaks of only
One thing, and that
One thing is
Everything.
As soon as the speaking begins,
There is movement away from It.
Words reduce the incomprehensible into
- Wu Hsin
One cannot acquire true knowledge and
Maintain a hold on ignorance.
The two are mutually exclusive.
Release of the latter is
A precondition for the
Arrival of the former.
- Wu Hsin
When vision and compassion
Expand to include the opposition,
The opposition ceases to oppose.
- Wu Hsin
Slow ripening and rapid flowering
Alternate.
One is not superior to the other.
Be not concerned with pace,
Be concerned with depth.
Worries about progress are for children.
- Wu Hsin
All there is is consciousness.
Consciousness is all there is.
In the absence of consciousness,
What is there?
All manifestation
Appears in consciousness
Disappears in consciousness.
Consciousness is the precondition for
All perception.
Everything perceived
Is perceived
By consciousness as
An object in consciousness,
Including the perceiver.
Understand this and
Then grow your carrots.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin requires that
One question those things that are
Not open to question.
These are the rocks to which
- Wu Hsin
Utilizing the mind in the attempt to
Achieve Ultimate Understanding is
Akin to hiring a thief to
Protect a house from burglars.
- Wu Hsin
Man can do
Whatever he wants.
However, he cannot
Will whatever he wants.
- Wu Hsin
Your reading these words
Is evidence enough to Wu Hsin that
The hook is already
In the fish's mouth.
I cannot tell you
How long it will take
To reel it in.
Most fight,
Some do not.
In the end,
All come into my net.
- Wu Hsin
Shadows working on shadows,
Seeking to comprehend the
Inconceivable immensity that is
What-Is.
Better it would be to
Simply enjoy oneself,
Doing what one is moved to do.
- Wu Hsin
If heat and cold
Comprise temperature and
Tall and short together
Comprise height,
Do subject and object comprise
The sum of life,
The perceiver and the perceived?
- Wu Hsin
My mother is
This-Now-Here;
My brother is
This-Now-Here;
My neighbor is
This-Now-Here;
All related.
When each is gone,
What endures?
This-Now-Here.
Thoughts are only
Puffs of smoke
Rising from the chimney of the mind.
Attaching attention to them is
The heart of suffering.
- Wu Hsin
What one really is
Is what one is
In the absence of
The who that
One thinks one is.
- Wu Hsin
There is no requirement to
Transcend the past.
All that must be done is to
Stop carrying it,
Like a block of stone,
On one's back.
- Wu Hsin
Man is ensnared
In the continuum called Past-Future.
His attention remains fixated there,
Uninterrupted.
To free oneself from the trap,
Even for a single instant,
Return to the point of presence,
Of being.
Of being no thing in particular.
In this moment.
Then, miraculously,
The snare dissolves.
- Wu Hsin
Do not mistake
A mere rearranging of the furniture
For true change.
- Wu Hsin
Thinking creates more problems
Than it solves.
- Wu Hsin
Do not look for It
In moving water.
Moving water distorts.
Look for It
In still water.
Still water reflects perfectly.
- Wu Hsin
There is great joy when
The raindrop is reunited with
The ocean.
Likewise, there is great joy
In death.
What dies, other than
A story filled with much sorrow and
Intermittent joy?
- Wu Hsin
Know Wu Hsin as
The Untouched.
Unaffected by time or
Space or
People or
Places or
Things,
Wu Hsin is not
While all else is moving.
- Wu Hsin
All doing is contained
In being.
When the attention is shifted from
Doing to being,
To the goal.
But, not knowledge
Of things.
Knowledge of things will
Distance you from the goal.
Wu Hsin tells you to
Call off your search.
- Wu Hsin
Followers of the sun
Never know darkness.
- Wu Hsin
The Mystery is not reached with words.
Nor can the mind reach It.
Unseen,
Unheard,
It cannot be taught.
What remains is the experiencing
Without an experiencer.
- Wu Hsin
The man of contentment
Seeks nothing that
He doesn't have and
Understands that
Whatever he has
Isn't his to own.
- Wu Hsin
To live and to die
Is natural.
To be afraid
To live and to die is not.
- Wu Hsin
If man spent as much
Time and energy
Demolishing his prison
As was spent in building it,
All would be free.
- Wu Hsin
You are not the main character
In the play.
You are one of many characters.
Each has a role to play.
This realization is
The first step toward
The unity that is, always was and
Always will be.
- Wu Hsin
So many things you could
Give up and
Still not achieve clarity.
Instead,
Simply give up your notions
Of I, me and mine and
Allow stillness to carry you forward.
- Wu Hsin
Forms through which action occurs,
Be it plant, insect, tiger or human
Behave according to their nature.
Understand Nature and
Understand all.
- Wu Hsin
The fundamental question is:
Do you have awareness or
Does Awareness have you?
- Wu Hsin
The world cannot improve until
The peoples of the world improve.
The peoples of the world cannot improve until
The person improves.
The person cannot improve until
All self interest is removed.
- Wu Hsin
The particular and the universal are not separate.
They are merely two aspects of
The indivisible;
One viewed from within,
The other from without.
- Wu Hsin
The desire for understanding
Arises from misunderstanding.
The way out is through
Questioning and examining the habitual.
- Wu Hsin
The animating presence is
The building block upon which
You have been erected.
Even after you have been torn down,
The building block remains.
Centering your attention there is
The direct means to gain
Primordial insight.
- Wu Hsin
What-Is or
You may call it the Truth,
Must be apperceived.
Once one attempts to express it,
It becomes a concept and
Food for discussion.
Then the Truth is lost.
Seekers of Truth must ask:
What distinguishing marks will
Allow one to recognize it?
- Wu Hsin
What does the orange tree
Have to do
To grow oranges?
What does the sky
Have to do
To be blue?
What do you
Have to do
To be?
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin takes many
To the river, but
To the cloud.
The known is supported by
The unknown which, in turn, is
Held by the Unknowable.
Ignoring this is
The folly of men.
- Wu Hsin
Everything moves toward
Its own destruction.
The flame is lit.
The flame is extinguished.
What is between the two is
Labeled time.
- Wu Hsin
Do not confuse
Emptying the pot with
Shattering the pot.
A pot that is emptied
Can be refilled whereas
A shattered pot ceases to be.
- Wu Hsin
It is only when
The very idea of changing is seen
As false that
One can perceive the changeless.
- Wu Hsin
The body is a borrowed thing.
One uses it for a time; then
It must be returned to
That from which it was borrowed.
- Wu Hsin
There is nothing
For me to tell you
That will make a difference.
There is nothing Wu Hsin can say
That will bring about
Your awakening.
The sound of my own voice
Holds no appeal for me.
The face of
The Permanent and is
The harbinger of peace.
- Wu Hsin
Thinking is so tiresome,
Requiring so much energy
Solely for the purpose
Of reinforcing the notion
Of a thinker.
What a waste!
Stop thinking and
Merely watch
Everything being done
Without your interference.
- Wu Hsin
The marriage of
Full consciousness with
Life
Is the most beautiful union
This world has ever known.
- Wu Hsin
You don't know what is good.
You only know
What is good for you.
Tomorrow, that might change.
Then, good will become bad and
You will claim to know it.
All this, however, is relative.
What is good for you
Might be bad for me.
What is good for you today,
Might be bad for you tomorrow.
Wouldn't it be better
To leave the judging
To the fools?
- Wu Hsin
Do not use
Wu Hsin's words
As a platform for
Launching new concepts.
- Wu Hsin
The arrival of what is absent is
Preconditioned on
The departure of
What is present.
So long as
The inn is full
No rooms are available.
- Wu Hsin
I will not tell you
What it looks like
Because then
You will assume that
You know
What you are looking for.
You cannot know it
You can only
Be it and
This being is without cause.
So what is left
For you to do?
- Wu Hsin
Whatever is embraced,
Whatever is clung to, will leave.
Why, then, empower it
By making it important?
- Wu Hsin
When river water is
Placed in a jar
Does its quality change?
The container is irrelevant.
The attention must remain upon
What is of essence.
- Wu Hsin
To fixate on what is not,
The past, the future,
The way things ought to be,
Inherently creates struggle with What-Is.
See this and step out of it.
- Wu Hsin
What is natural
Requires no study or practice for mastery.
Does one study how to sleep?
To reach what is natural
Merely remove what is not natural.
- Wu Hsin
One must either be content with
One's individual accomplishments or
One must break free from
The notion of individuality.
- Wu Hsin
Why do you offer
Such resistance to life?
Has not Wu Hsin told you
That resistance
Only extends and intensifies
Your pain and discomfort.
There is a secret word
Which, when used
With sincerity,
Aligns you with all of life.
That word is
Yes.
- Wu Hsin
Hope requires the future,
Faith dips into the past,
Trust that all is as it should be
In the present moment.
- Wu Hsin
Look deeply inside yourself and
Unbeckoned.
In a short time,
It recedes and is
Forgotten until
Its next arising.
Understanding the stage on which
This play is performed is
The way out of it.
- Wu Hsin
Silence is the bridge between
The Formless and
The world of form.
- Wu Hsin
How can light find darkness?
Darkness is merely
The absence of light.
How can one find one's source?
One's source is revealed in
The absence of one's self.
- Wu Hsin
Beyond what?
Beyond where?
Beyond when?
Beyond whom?
This beyond
Is not outside yourself,
But is the vast,
Limitless expanse
Within.
It is not knowable
Nor does it reside
Within the space of the known.
Stop running toward
Positive states.
Stop running from
Negative states.
Stop.
Take whatever comes
As it comes;
Without judgment,
Without embellishment.
Magicians,
Meditators,
Representatives of hearsay,
Intellectuals and
World renouncers.
Who amongst these can reveal
The shadow of the Formless?
- Wu Hsin
The body is charged with
Life Force Energy and
Sustained by food.
Where is the role of an individual in this?
It progresses through life
Reacting to people, places and events
In a manner
Specific to its nature.
Where is the role of any individual
In determining this?
Wu Hsin wants to know:
What causes the belief that
You are an individual?
- Wu Hsin
When a gale blows from the east,
Walk to the west.
When a gale blows from the west,
Walk to the east.
Acceptance of the hard and the soft is
The foundation of trust that
All is right.
- Wu Hsin
The adversarial relationship
With life is the prison.
Acceptance of life as it comes,
Day by day,
Moment by moment, is
The key to the lock on the door.
- Wu Hsin
Maturity evolves upon
The realization that
Your numerous strategies
For escaping
Have failed you.
Maturity brings with it
The dawn of understanding of
What it is you are trying
To escape from.
Maturity prompts the examination of
Whether you are really imprisoned at all.
- Wu Hsin
Make no effort to meditate
Make no effort to not meditate
Make no effort to make no effort
Being is not something
One does
Being is what
One is.
- Wu Hsin
Don't come here so that Wu Hsin may
Prescribe a path for you.
Choose the path
Of your inclination,
Regardless of appearances
Or opinion.
All paths meet
At the One Path which goes beyond
All paths.
- Wu Hsin
The necessity to delineate
Right from wrong,
Truth from not-truth,
Is itself the impediment.
The truths of men are finite,
With many nuances.
Primordial Truth
Has infinite expressions
While removing all need
For interpretation.
- Wu Hsin
Before it.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin's motivation is
Easy to understand.
It is the same as
The bird's motivation
To sing.
- Wu Hsin
In the instant of action,
There is no actor.
It is only afterward that
The ego,
This false identity,
Appropriates the action as mine.
- Wu Hsin
When the mind is seen as
Continually kidnapped by thoughts,
The first step toward freedom
Has been taken.
Now, cease listening to
What is being heard.
Instead, listen to
What is listening.
- Wu Hsin
Relinquish the fixation
On beginnings and endings,
On past and future.
All that matters is
This-Now-Here.
Once lost,
It cannot be recovered.
- Wu Hsin
Four questions:
How many more failed strategies
Will you undertake
To gain what you want?
What do you want?
What will getting what you want
Give you?
- Wu Hsin
You are a microcosm
Of the cosmos.
Your body is comprised of
All the elements
Of the world.
The cosmos has donated itself
To make you.
The day will come
When she will request a refund.
Grant it smilingly.
- Wu Hsin
Do not mistake birth
For beginning.
Likewise,
Death is not
An ending.
Prior to birth is
Existence without limit.
This is the quality
That is masked
By incarnation.
Remove the mask and
Remove the bindings.
- Wu Hsin
Emergence is
The realization of
Potentiality.
Things appear,
Stay and ultimately depart.
- Wu Hsin
Grace appears
In the world
Like a giant cloud
Pouring refreshment
On the parched and
On the thirsty.
The closed ones
Fail to partake
Fail to benefit
Because they are
Otherwise engaged.
- Wu Hsin
Will adding copper to gold
Improve it?
What is inherent in each
Needs no improvement.
What is not inherent is not
Worthy of attention.
- Wu Hsin
What comes
Will go.
Only the permanent is beyond
Coming and going.
How much time is left,
One minute or fifty years?
Why squander it on
The transient?
- Wu Hsin
Liberation does not occur
To any thing in the outer.
It is an inner experience of
Freedom from attachments to the outer.
The saint in prison is free,
The emperor is bound.
- Wu Hsin
Save your time.
Do not come to Wu Hsin.
What you seek
Is below;
It is above.
It is behind you and
In front of you.
To the north,
South,
East and
West.
- Wu Hsin
Follow Wu Hsin,
If you can.
- Wu Hsin
Who dies
When the body dies?
What dies?
In this inquiry,
The sun burns away the fog and
The mists lift.
- Wu Hsin
To have no thought and
To make no effort is
The first step toward Understanding.
The second step is
To go nowhere and
To do nothing.
Upon completion of these,
Resting for a while is advised.
- Wu Hsin
Each being is a moment in time
With a name and
A form and
A script
To be performed
In this play called
Life.
None chose the name
Nor the form
Nor the script
Yet each believes himself to be
The master of his destiny.
Once their sight clears,
They, too, will laugh.
- Wu Hsin
Awakening occurs
Not when there is no more
To be added
But instead,
When there is no more
To be taken away.
- Wu Hsin
I am a shadow,
Me and you.
- Wu Hsin
Flirting with time is
A losing game.
In the end,
Time eats everything except
The timeless.
- Wu Hsin
Man lives through his fictions.
He acts as if
He will not die.
He acts as if
There are gods that
Reward and punish.
He acts as if
He controls his life,
Controls his destiny.
It need not be otherwise;
The next moment will
Take care of itself.
Substance is immanent in
Every shadow.
This is the gate without a gate that
One must pass through
To attain understanding.
- Wu Hsin
Are you willing to risk
Everything, to be
Totally and utterly exposed?
Are you willing to see
How you defraud.
Demean and trivialize
The totality of your being
By relegating it to
This psychosomatic device
Called you?
Or would you rather
Be fishing?
The ability to discriminate
Between what appears to be and
What-Is is
- Wu Hsin
The relinquishing of all searching
Allows the immobility to arise
That reveals
That there is no becoming;
All already is.
- Wu Hsin
The world may be divided into
Three parts:
The known,
The unknown and
The Unknowable.
It is to the last that
One must go
So that you may receive
What you are after.
- Wu Hsin
The loss of habitual certainties is
The gain of clear vision.
The common man looks at things,
Uncommon man sees through them.
- Wu Hsin
Upon the arrival of
The great death,
All concerns for
The lesser death
Disappear.
Somebody becomes
No body in particular and
Life goes on without fear.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin does not possess
The pass key to heaven nor
The escape route from hell.
Both are available
On this earth and are chosen
In every moment.
- Wu Hsin
- Wu Hsin
Doing or not doing;
Pick either,
Only do not attach value to
The outcome of either.
In this manner,
The flow of peace
Remains uninterrupted.
- Wu Hsin
If Wu Hsin's words
Create a resonance, then
He is called a wise man.
If they do not,
He is dismissed as
A bag of feces.
The words are the same,
The hearer is not.
- Wu Hsin
With the willingness to bear
Whatever comes,
Comes the end of
The need of
Any and all strategies and
Safety is recognized as
The illusion that it is.
- Wu Hsin
It is not possible to love the world
Without loving oneself first.
Is one not
Part of the world rather than
Apart from it?
Love the smaller first,
Then the greater.
In so doing, the space between
Oneself and the world disappears;
One becomes the world.
- Wu Hsin
Mo Hua,
The wise old man from Li Jiang.
Wu Hsin is
The seeing,
The hearing,
The perceiving,
The smelling and
The tasting of all that is
Seen, Heard,
Perceived,
Smelled and tasted.
The attention never goes to stillness;
It always goes toward movement.
The stillness,
That which is prior to movement, is
Therefore missed.
Pay attention and
See things as they really are.
What other discipline is required?
- Wu Hsin
Personal freedom is
Nothing more than
Freedom from the personal.
As such, personal freedom is
Not available to any body.
- Wu HsinThe easiest method to remove
The ongoing condition of vigilance is to
Remove the me whom
The vigilance protects.
Then, vigilance dissolves.
- Wu Hsin
Devotion to any teacher, any sage,
Perpetuates the illusion of
Division and separation.
That which animates the teacher
Animates all.
Direct one's devotion to That.
- Wu Hsin
The wise man does not
Need the people's prayers.
The wise man is
The answer to
In this fashion,
These are the products of the practice.
Wu Hsin notes that with
Clear understanding,
All these arise as
By-products while
No practice is required.
- Wu Hsin
One seeking transcendent wisdom
Embarks on a journey where
The mind cannot go.
It is only in the
Absence of preconceptions that
What-Is can be revealed.
- Wu Hsin
There can be no observer
In the absence of
An observed object.
The two comprise
One whole.
Fold oneself
Into oneself and
Simply be
The subjective witness of
One's objective expression.
- Wu Hsin
All aspiration is self deception.
It is preconditioned on
The arrival of tomorrow.
What can arrive tomorrow
Can likewise be had in
This moment if
The view is right.
- Wu Hsin
The stream of mind is
A continuous flow.
To believe that one can
Permanently stop it is like
Believing in one's success at
Burying one's shadow.
- Wu Hsin
All goals,
All getting,
Serve to only strengthen the ego.
The recognition
That there is nothing
To be gained or attained,
That everything is already
Here and now, is wisdom.
- Wu Hsin
Like water is shaped by its container,
Man is shaped by
The essences of the parents and
The experiences of life.
Controlling neither,
One is what one is.
- Wu Hsin
Never mind the mind.
It is like pouring droplets of water into
A hot frying pan.
- Wu Hsin
When one is struck by awe or wonder,
There is no line of separation between
The knower and the known.
In this space, the world and
Every act in it is spontaneous.
- Wu Hsin
Real happiness is causeless.
Happi
ess that is caused is not real;
It is transient.
Believing that the transient
Can take one to
The intransient is
Self deception.
- Wu Hsin
All musts are false.
No must can be spontaneous and
Deepening of understanding.
They are a source of stimulation, and
Nothing more.
Adopted as regimen,
They are a hindrance.
- Wu Hsin
How many of the seemingly earnest are
Devoting their energies to
The attainment of liberation
Which, by its most rigorous definition,
Is unattainable?
Is not the egoic striver
The real barrier
Between what one thinks one is and
That which one wishes to become?
How can one become
What one has always been and always will be?
Does sugar suddenly become sweet?
- Wu Hsin
You are not your cart,
Nor are you the horse pulling it.
You are the knower of both and
The identity of neither.
- Wu Hsin
Time can tear down mountains.
Consider what the timeless source of time can do!
- Wu Hsin
Before there is clarity,
Everything is viewed through a keyhole.
After there is clarity,
The door has been removed.
- Wu Hsin
Desire is the urge to be happy.
Desirelessness is the
Fruit of the recognition of
Inherent happiness.
- Wu Hsin
The accumulation of knowledge does not
Lead to omniscience.
Knowing what needs to be known,
For every moment,
In every moment is omniscience.
It begins with
Knowing one's mind.
- Wu Hsin
One who feeds
The wolves of excess is never alone
Nor ever appeased.
By making oneself lower,
One attains the highest.
- Wu Hsin
Long ago,
Wu Hsin used to be somebody.
Now, he is in all things and
All things are in him and
He has become
No body in particular.
- Wu Hsin
Being in the Way, that is,
Alignment with Divine Intention
Means simply not to
Be in the way.
- Wu Hsin
Freedom is not something
One possesses.
Freedom is
That which possesses.
- Wu Hsin
Until one escapes from
The prison of the body,
For every inside, there will be
An outside.
- Wu Hsin
Morality is an illusion;
Who can stop
The movement of the world?
- Wu Hsin
Just as water is serene
When it is free of ripples,
Likewise, the mind is serene
When it is free of thought.
Free of thought:
Free of judgment,
Free of discrimination,
Free of defense
Free of agenda and
Free of strategy.
Free.
- Wu Hsin
Awareness alone exists.
Prior to the arising of things,
Awareness simply is.
Upon the arising,
Awareness is conscious of things.
Things come,
Things go.
Birth, growth, dissolution.
Amidst it all,
Awareness is the Unmovable;
No where to go to,
No where to come from.
- Wu Hsin
Every man is a star in the sky
Appearing,
Moving for a time and then gone.
Each star fulfills its purpose
Without concern for whether
Its movements are right or wrong.
- Wu Hsin
As the long, winding road
Unwinds,
The sense of specialness
Disappears and is replaced by
The apperception of the unity
With every thing.
- Wu Hsin
Everything.
How can you expect Wu Hsin to help you?
Wu Hsin cannot separate the flame from
The fire.
- Wu Hsin
Stop demanding that
Life provide happiness.
Happiness is inherent and
Internal to Being.
Looking for happiness in the external
May provide heat, but no light.
- Wu Hsin
The Great Mystery
Cannot be thought through to solution.
In a single flash,
Clear Seeing occurs and
The Mystery is dissolved.
- Wu Hsin
Memory is undependable.
Selective,
Sporadic,
Exaggerating and
Distorting,
It is an unreliable storehouse.
That which is unreliable
Must not be empowered.
- Wu Hsin
As the sugar is completed pervaded
By the sugar cane juices,
This world is pervaded by
The Light.
When the Light shines;
All is seen.
- Wu Hsin
My method has
No method.
You need only to stop.
Stop clinging,
Stop scheming,
Stop praying,
Stop seeking,
Stop analyzing,
Stop all your strategies and lastly,
Stop giving your thoughts
The authority to define
Who you are.
Simply allow what remains to
Reveal Itself.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin will not
Engage you in debate.
Debate is food for
The mind.
My preference is not to
Feed the mind but to
Starve it.
- Wu Hsin
Reject the path
Reject the journey,
Reject the desire to become
Anything in particular.
Reject time itself and
Become enveloped in what remains.
- Wu Hsin
What is realization?
Realization is the understanding
That there is no one to be realized.
Nothing else.
- Wu Hsin
What one was before this,
What one will be after this, is
No different from
What one is now.
Prior to a body,
Prior to a mind,
Prior to a personality,
This is It.
- Wu Hsin
Concept of no concepts,
My Practice is the
Practice of non-practice and,
The Method of meditation is
By non-meditation,
This results in the Mind of no mind,
The Thought of no thought and,
The Action of no action.
In summation,
It is The Presence of the
Absence of volition,
Which is awakening.
- Wu Hsin
Nothingness:
Wanting nothing
Getting nothing
Having nothing
Needing nothing
Doing nothing
Being nothing
Being no thing.
This is Freedom.
This is Fullness.
- Wu Hsin
Life is
Its own purpose.
There is nothing
That needs to be done and
There is no one to do it.
- Wu Hsin
The dissatisfaction with,
The insufficiency of,
This moment is
All that need be transcended.
The door to
This transcendence is to be
Found in acceptance.
- Wu Hsin
Habitual and normal are
Not the same.
Nor are
Different and separate.
Herein, the confusion lies.
- Wu Hsin
The person is a collection of
Habits and memories.
Who is it to whom
The person happens?
- Wu Hsin
In every instant
There is change.
Nothing is constant.
Where can one find
Security in this?
One cannot,
So why use so much energy
Attempting to do so?
- Wu Hsin
No one is humble
There is only
Humility
No one is compassionate
There is only
Compassion
Removing the one
Reveals the One.
- Wu Hsin
Although preparation for change
May be gradual,
All true change is sudden.
- Wu Hsin
Seeing clearly is an impersonal event
Occurring in the absence of
One intending to see clearly.
In fact, it is the one
Intending to see clearly
That is the very impediment to
Seeing clearly.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin would happily
Provide you with a way.
But how does one go
From here to here?
- Wu Hsin
How do you
Describe color
To a man
Blind from birth?
All this talking,
Why?
Let the Stillness
Speak
And all questions are answered.
- Wu Hsin
In an instant,
An entire world is created
When you dream.
The dreamer merely watches,
Having no control over what
The dreamed characters are doing.
Then you awaken.
In an instant,
An entire world is created.
- Wu Hsin
In the moment when
The sight meets
The mirror
There comes an explosion in understanding
That there is no difference
Between the two.
- Wu Hsin
One may teach it to you
Using five thousand words
While another
Teaches it
Using only five.
This should not be
A source of worry.
- Wu Hsin
My shadow is real
Because it can be observed;
It is unreal
Because it cannot exist
Independent of me.
I am real
Because I can be observed;
I am unreal
Because I cannot exist
Independent of That
Which supports and preceded me.
- Wu HsinTo be free of the obsession
With the future,
With the preoccupation of
What to do next, is
Most well regarded by those that
Others label as lazy.
Even if it were so,
It would be
The highest form of laziness.
- Wu Hsin
Wishing for a better past,
A different past,
Is the cornerstone of unhappiness.
Awash in the present,
In every What-Is,
Joy is boundless.
- Wu Hsin
When expectation and wants
Are set aside,
The flow
Of the natural is unimpeded.
Life softens
And ease arises
And one is that much closer to peace.
- Wu Hsin
Roots wither in darkness.
Keeping the root healthy and
Well watered
Will insure that
The fruits are sweet.
Attention should always be
Directed to the root.
- Wu Hsin
There is nothing that Wu Hsin has
That another doesn't have
In equal measure.
As such, what has Wu Hsin
To give anyone,
Other than the awareness of
Our equality?
- Wu Hsin
Becoming has no beginning.
Becoming has no end.
Becoming merely restarts itself
In every instant.
Becoming this or that is
A movement away from it.
- Wu Hsin
The universal is everywhere and
In every thing, yet
It cannot be discerned
With eyes that are personal.
- Wu Hsin
The guises you employ
To protect yourself
From the world
Also deny you
Full access to your heart.
To love fully and completely
Demands the willingness
To be annihilated.
- Wu Hsin
Achieving immortality is easy.
Only set aside
Ownership of body and mind and
Shackled by an identification
Of my own making,
With smallness.
And when I am done, I will
Return there;
The cycle will be complete.
- Wu Hsin
Why are you so afraid of life?
Why do you distrust it so?
Why must you control
Upon deep examination,
The basket is revealed to be empty.
- Wu Hsin
Name and form are a unit of time,
Emerging from and returning to
The Timeless.
- Wu Hsin
Birth and death are merely
The beginning and ending of
A series of events.
Stand on the outside,
Observe them but
Don't get involved.
Standing on the high cliff,
The river below can be
Observed and enjoyed without
The observer getting wet.
- Wu Hsin
The promise of the future is
A falsehood.
How many futures have come and gone
While dissatisfaction remains?
- Wu Hsin
Once the great awakening occurs
Whatever ensues afterwards is of no consequence.
Outward changes may occur,
They may not.
Outward signs need not announce
Inner transformation.
- Wu Hsin
What is your life other than
The functioning of
The Totality from
The viewpoint of
The specific?
- Wu Hsin
The very next second
Holds the possibility that
You can disengage from
Your enchantment with
You life story and
You can enter into
The realm of
Complete peace.
Wu Hsin wants to know:
What are you waiting for?
- Wu Hsin
Admittedly, we are all objects
Known to the senses of one another.
Yet, the knower of all objects
Must exist
Prior to all objects.
Therefore, how can the knower
Be known?
- Wu Hsin
Only an object
Can manifest
The effect of a cause
But an object
Cannot know the effect.
The subject
Knows the effect.
Suffering arises
When the supposed subject
Mistakes itself
For the object.
The end of suffering
Is the end
Of objectification
No night
Was before Wu Hsin
And is after Wu Hsin
Yet during Wu Hsin.
Who is Wu Hsin, therefore
To speak of nothingness?
- Wu Hsin
Everything you have had
Will be lost.
Everything you have
Will be lost.
Everything you will have
Will likewise be lost.
Why make them important?
- Wu Hsin
Using your mind will not
Take you to Freedom.
How can the mind
Name the Nameless,
Grasp the Formless or
Know that which cannot
Be known?
This tool cannot
Cultivate this field.
- Wu Hsin
The success of Wu Hsin
Rests on one act,
That being,
Keeping myself
Away from myself.
It was not anything I did
It was only
What was done.
- Wu Hsin
The recognition of illusion as illusion
Does not necessarily
End the illusion.
However, it ends the involvement
With the illusion.
This is enough.
- Wu Hsin
In order to achieve Understanding
One's focus need be less on
What one is
And more on
What one is not.
When the clouds
All disappear
The sun is revealed
In its full splendor.
- Wu Hsin
You are dreaming
My child:
Dreaming that you are asleep
Dreaming that you are awake.
All the while
Life is being lived.
- Wu Hsin
What is required
To keep your problems alive?
The answer to this is your
Meditation on your suffering.
Freedom from pain
Freedom from suffering is only
Freedom from my pain
Freedom from my suffering.
True freedom is
Freedom from "my".
- Wu Hsin
The people believe
That the answer to happiness
Lies in having more,
Acquiring more.
Wu Hsin tells you
This is an error.
Having twice as much
Doesn't make one
Twice as happy.
Take everything away
Until all that is left is you.
- Wu Hsin
All life is a single event:
One moment flowing into the next,
Naturally.
Nothing causing everything.
Everything causing everything.
- Wu Hsin
How is beginning defined?
Is it the birth of the baby or
Is it the birth of its mother?
- Wu Hsin
What is the world other than
Numberless mirrors
Reflecting the light from
A single source?
- Wu Hsin
The Source of being
Cannot be conceived.
Only objects are conceived,
While the subject remains
Finer than mist.
Wu Hsin advises to
Stop searching for
What cannot be found and
Instead realize that
One's inherent nature is that of
The sought.
- Wu Hsin
No amount of study,
No attendance in any school
Can teach one to be oneself.
Being is everything,
Being any thing in particular is
An illusion.
- Wu Hsin
Like the scab on the foot
Drops off when
No longer needed,
- Wu Hsin
When the mind ceases to imagine,
It ceases to be.
Who, then, is to
Know this mind?
When its projections return,
Its personal knower returns, yet
Its impersonal knower has never left.
- Wu Hsin
Stillness, dreaming, waking;
This is the Great Wheel.
When the Knower
Of the three is known,
The great gate opens.
- Wu Hsin
Those that are so upright that
They cannot be bent
Must continue their
Dissatisfaction with the world.
- Wu Hsin
It is the nature of the flame to burn.
It is the nature of the moth to
Fly toward the light.
When the moth is destroyed
By the flame,
Can it be considered to be
The fault of the moth?
- Wu Hsin
When the understanding arises that
The personal will is
The servant of That,
Then one need not seek reasons for
Any action that occurs.
Without all the why's,
Peace reigns.
- Wu Hsin
Can man become too secure?
At what point has
Spontaneity and aliveness
Been sacrificed on
The altar of safety?
- Wu Hsin
Other animals are born
Knowing who they are and
What they must do.
Why is this knowing so difficult for
Humanity to grasp?
Might it be because
In the kingdom of animals,
There are no individuals?
- Wu Hsin
From the absence of Understanding to
The presence of Understanding,
There is a process at work.
It is the same process that results in
The growth of a baby in the womb and
Both occur without conscious effort
By anyone.
- Wu Hsin
Recognizing the body,
One is apart from the body.
Recognizing the mind,
One is apart from the mind.
This that is apart stands supreme;
Prior to the arising of any thing.
- Wu Hsin
The background is
The father to the foreground.
Everything emanates from it and
Returns to it.
Lacking in qualities,
It cannot be described.
- Wu Hsin
Trying to understand oneness is as futile as
Trying to drink with the ears.
- Wu Hsin
To be nobody is to
Have no body.
That which is prior to
Name and form is
What one truly is.
Whatever it is called, when called
It does not reply.
- Wu HsinThe Life-Energy and
Awareness arrive.
In due course,
The instrument's purpose is fulfilled.
The Life-Energy and
Awareness depart.
The cycle is completed.
Understand this thoroughly and
There is nothing else to do.
- Wu Hsin
When a golden dragon is
Melted down,
It returns to its original state.
It is what it was before and
Yet, it is not.
Golden dragon is no more;
Gold remains.
So it is with all things.
- Wu Hsin
A return to wholeness is
An end of division.
No seer,
No seen,
Only seeing.
- Wu Hsin
The return to the original nature is not
A rising up
But a sinking down.
Whereas rising is active
Sinking is passive.
This return is therefore effortless.
- Wu Hsin
The man of complete knowledge is
No longer an individual.
That which applies to the individual
No longer apply to this one,
Thus making him
Difficult to recognize.
- Wu Hsin
How different the world is
When the identified individual is
Absent from it.
- Wu Hsin
One becomes one's thoughts
When one claims
Ownership of them.
When they are merely noticed
But not attended to,
They can do no harm.
- Wu Hsin
Permanency is the primary misconception.
Everything comes and goes.
When this is fully comprehended,
Clinging ceases and
The joy for each thing is magnified.
- Wu Hsin
Clear seeing is
The end of rushing.
One realizes one's
Perfect alignment in time,
In space.
One is where
One is supposed to be
In the time
One is supposed to be there.
- Wu Hsin
True knowledge is not
The accumulation of concepts.
It is the absence of concepts.
It is a knowing that
Cannot be expressed and
Where concepts are useless.
- Wu Hsin
Why limit oneself to
A particular body?
Return to the state of wholeness,
Even though the body may be broken;
To the state of riches,
Even among the lack of earthly possessions;
To the state of peace,
Even if the world is aflame.
There is no requirement for waiting.
Do it now.
- Wu Hsin
Nothing to be reached.
Nothing to be gained.
Nothing to be added.
That which is sought is
Here and now.
Does one speak of space
Entering a room?
- Wu Hsin
Preying on caged canaries may be
Great entertainment to the housecat.
It is far less so to the canaries.
- Wu Hsin
That from which
Nothing can depart
Holds all,
Nurtures all, and
Sustains all
In much the same way as
The ocean holds raindrops.
- Wu Hsin
One gains the power of the river
When one swims in
The direction of its flow.
- Wu Hsin
Identity is difference.
- Wu Hsin
When the sandals are comfortable
One feels as if barefoot.
When the robe is comfortable,
One feels as if naked.
All discomfort is
A call for attention.
- Wu Hsin
The eagle flies over the lake
Casting a reflection without intention.
This is effortless effort.
To manifest this,
One cannot attain know-how,
Only no how.
- Wu Hsin
Boundaries can either divide or
Bind together.
The absence of boundaries is
The absence of
Division and togetherness.
What remains is one.
- Wu Hsin
A centipede controls
Its one hundred legs at once by
Not thinking about it.
All intention is the beating of
A skinless drum.
- Wu Hsin
The thinker of thoughts is merely
Another thought.
The one who knows this is
No longer in his own way.
- Wu Hsin
The governor of Shu province
Sent his courier to the south.
Being a wise man,
The courier never mistook himself
For the government and
Understood that he was only
Its messenger.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin arrived
Just prior to the world.
I am, therefore,
The world is.
- Wu Hsin
To understand the way things are
Understand the way things were.
Before a man,
One was a boy.
Before a boy,
An infant.
Before an infant,
A seed and
Before the seed,
One was all.
- Wu Hsin
Thinking one thought at a time,
It would take forever
To understand everything.
The quicker route
With the same outcome is
To understand Nothing.
- Wu Hsin
In the beginning, no thing is.
Then there is one,
Then there is two,
Then there is ten thousand.
To understand the beginning,
One must return to it.
When the aroma of
Springtime flowers
Wafts down the hillside.
One must trace
The aroma to its source
To find the flowers.
So too it is
With the aroma of being.
Once the function of perceiving is
Clearly understood,
The notion of inside and outside vanishes.
- Wu Hsin
The world is merely
The interplay of opposites;
One and many,
Solid and empty,
Coming and going.
This flow goes on
Without end.
The one unaffected by the flow is
The one who has accepted it.
- Wu Hsin
In the absence of change,
What one was is
What one is and
What one shall be.
Hence, time is voided because
Time is change.
When the foreground
Remains the same,
Against the background of eternity,
Of what use is time?
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin does not desire
The other shore;
This shore is more than enough.
This very acceptance
Transforms this shore into
The other shore.
- Wu Hsin
The jump from the periphery to
The center can
Occur in an instant.
The notions of preparation for it are
Fools' errands.
- Wu Hsin
The ignorant person is
One who ignores
Therefore, to re-mind is
To dismember and then re-member.
- Wu Hsin
The present moment resides
Between imagination and stupor.
When both are rejected,
It shines like a lamp in
A room with ten thousand mirrors.
- Wu Hsin
Ambition is the desire to be
Something other than what one is.
It is the deadliest of poisons.
In the absence of ambition,
All futures dissolve and
One is natural in all things.
- Wu Hsin
One cannot count
The number of beliefs that aren't so.
- Wu Hsin
If nature cannot be trusted,
How dare one trust oneself?
If the sun is cautious of the wind,
Does not the sky become a battlefield?
- Wu Hsin
When the innumerable searches are concluded,
The realization dawns that
The optimal place to be is
Where one already is.
It is an arrival at the place
Where there is no solid footing beneath,
The understanding of all things.
Until the conclusion,
The searcher is like
A cod asking directions to the ocean.
- Wu Hsin
Chin Ho told Wu Hsin,
"I must be going; there is so much
I have to do".
Wu Hsin smiled.
"The world goes along quite well
Without you and your doings.
Didn't it do so
Before you arrived in it?
Don't you believe it will do so
After you've left it?
Why not stay with me and
Let's do nothing for a while longer?"
- Wu Hsin
The average man cannot distinguish
Between his problem and himself.
To become what one believes,
To become what one feels, is
The definitive statement of hell.
- Wu Hsin
Adhering to the notion that
Man can advance
While his environment deteriorates is
Tantamount to hugging smoke.
When it is seen that
Each depends on the other,
Harmony ensues.
- Wu Hsin
Hell is worrying about the future.
The only step on the journey
One needs concern oneself with is
This one now.
- Wu Hsin
The destruction of beliefs is
Superior to the creation of beliefs.
The destruction of identification is
Superior to the
Creation of identification.
When all destructions are completed,
What remains is the highest,
Yet it is ordinary.
- Wu Hsin
When the trance is broken,
None obeying.
- Wu Hsin
To be attached to something,
Be it person, place, object or idea,
Is to be shackled to it.
How can the shackled one
Realize their freedom
Without the breaking of the shackle?
- Wu Hsin
A nose kept in books
Cannot smell the dogwoods.
While the scholars are
Studying the menu,
The wise are eating the meal.
- Wu Hsin
There are no sounds that are unheard,
No sights unseen.
The One who
Presides over it all
Has been given many names,
But no garment fits It.
All effort to find It is like
Driving a spike into the sky.
- Wu Hsin
No monastery can provide sanctuary to
The one running away from himself.
- Wu Hsin
Goallessness is itself the goal.
Means become superfluous in
The absence of ends.
The efficacy of trying is revealed to be like
Catching the wind in a sieve.
- Wu Hsin
The natural follows no rules;
It is a spontaneous outpouring
Which is always correct.
The cock that announces the dawn
Has not been taught to do so.
- Wu Hsin
The world is a singular event.
Looking at the pieces,
Conflict is apparent.
Looking at the whole,
Harmony is apparent.
The way things seem to be
Depends on the vantage point.
A movement toward higher ground
Results in an improvement in vision.
- Wu Hsin
A push is also a pull.
- Wu Hsin
A life in alignment with What-Is is like
The willow in heavy snow:
Supple, bending, but not fractured.
The pines succumb as
Their rigidity is their undoing.
- Wu Hsin
The journey inward cannot be
Taken on foot,
Yet, it is as necessary as
Salt is to stew.
The return is always
A source of joyous celebration
For the one who returns although
He is not the one who departed.
- Wu Hsin
There is nothing to be done
In order to see clearly.
Such seeing arrives suddenly,
In the time it takes to realize that
Fire is hot to the touch.
It arrives causelessly; as such,
Wu Hsin has no
List of instructions that
One must follow.
- Wu Hsin
- Wu Hsin
The most craven of idols of worship
Are not made of stone or brass,
But of beliefs.
- Wu Hsin
The natural man has no preferences,
Takes no sides, and avoids labels.
His ordinariness is so vast that
He is considered merely
A part of the landscape.
Yet, he has mastered the world by
Disempowering it.
- Wu Hsin
The microcosm depends on the macrocosm
To no less degree than
The macrocosm depends on the microcosm.
The death of a beetle affects the tides
In ways too mysterious to understand.
- Wu Hsin
The individual perceives that
Life is happening to him whereas
The one who has
Relinquished his individuality
Perceives that life is
Merely happening.
This is the state wherein
Tension cannot arise.
- Wu Hsin
Many times has Wu Hsin been asked:
"What is emancipation?"
Emancipation is
Freedom from attachment;
Attachment to people,
Attachment to things,
Attachment to ideas and beliefs.
With all attachments cut,
One trusts that one will float
Rather than fall.
- Wu Hsin
Many times has Wu Hsin been asked:
"What is emancipation?"
Emancipation is
The horror of mortality
Transformed into
The ecstatic sense of
Freedom from the individual.
- Wu Hsin
One tiny insect can damage a
Huge expanse of grain.
Do not, therefore,
Be deceived by size.
Everything impacts
Everything else and is
Essential to the way of things.
- Wu Hsin
Those who do not know
Mask their ignorance in
Scripture and holy texts.
Wu Hsin uses these merely to
Wipe off the cloak of the intellect.
- Wu Hsin
Accepting that the snow is white and
The crow is black and
Summers are hot and
Winters cold,
Is the heart of understanding
All that is.
It is not the extraordinary that
Demands attention,
But the ordinary.
- Wu Hsin
Awaken from the trance or
Remain buried alive.
- Wu Hsin
Clear sight is similar to
The demolition of a building in that
It is a tearing down of
- Wu Hsin
The nature of What-Is is
Likened to eating food:
It should be taken in, digested and
Then eliminated.
Trying to keep it is
The surest way to lose it.
- Wu Hsin
Pulling the weeds
Fortifies the plant.
The removal of erroneous beliefs
Prepares the way for clarity.
The removal of those beliefs remaining
Heralds the arrival.
- Wu Hsin
To be calm amidst inactivity is
Not difficult.
The masterful ones are those who
Remain calm amidst intense activity.
To be the embodiment of calm is
To be freed
From the power of circumstances.
- Wu Hsin
It is easy to become
Wet in a fog.
The dry ones are those who have
Escaped the trance of
Self and other.
- Wu Hsin
Living at the center results in
Changes at the circumference.
As the periphery continues to shrink
It becomes increasing difficult to
Discriminate between the two.
Every day is the arrival of Spring.
- Wu Hsin
Seeing through the veil,
One no longer relies on
- Wu Hsin
Either one trusts no thing or
One trusts some thing.
To trust no thing is to
Live a life of fear and vigilance.
To trust some thing is to relax,
Allowing that worldly matters are
Attended to without
One's direct involvement.
- Wu Hsin
An excellent carpenter
Never makes his work more difficult by
Standing in his own light.
- Wu Hsin
The bridge that does not sway
In heavy winds,
Usually tumbles in pelting rain.
To move with What-Is,
To not resist,
Promotes longevity in all things.
- Wu Hsin
Words cannot explain
The taste of water or
The taste of life.
Only through direct experience
Does one reach either.
- Wu Hsin
What is beyond here is
Likewise here.
Those who discriminate
Between imaginations and reality
Perceive that there includes here.
- Wu Hsin
The point of contact between
The phenomenal world and
The sacred is
The sense of presence,
The sense of being; I am.
Not I am this nor
I am that,
I am.
- Wu Hsin
To one who is inattentive
This year's sparrows seem like
Last year's sparrows.
- Wu Hsin
The world begins anew when
All the structures one has created,
Have been torn down,
When all the things clung to
Have been released and
When all the dramas one perpetuates
Have been forgotten.
- Wu Hsin
The same step that is
Too high for a child is
Too low for an adult.
The same step that is
Too wide for a child is
Too narrow for an adult.
The same step, therefore, has
The qualities of being high and low,
Wide and narrow, at the same time.
Reference is everything.
- Wu Hsin
What for one form of life is
A waste product is,
For another form of life,
An essential nutrient.
What is a predator for
One species is
Prey to another.
One cannot speak in absolutes
Except about the Absolute.
- Wu Hsin
What is inside his skin,
Man names his insides.
Why then, does he not name
Not deliberating.
It is within the nature of What-Is for
Whatever needs to happen
To happen;
Whatever needs to arrive
To arrive and
Whatever needs to depart
To depart.
- Wu Hsin
The fulfillment of one's purpose
Does not require
The understanding of one's purpose.
This is why a flute can be a flute and
A horse can be a horse.
Although the functions may be different
The essences are one.
- Wu Hsin
Those with clear sight have befriended
The beginning and the end,
They hold no preferences.
They understand that
The good exists
Only in relation to the bad as
Does the sacred
In relation to the profane.
- Wu Hsin
It is easy to be lost in imagination.
More difficult it is to be
Rooted in What-Is.
Forsaking the former requires
The willingness to see a world
Different from the one you planned.
- Wu Hsin
To draw distinctions is to separate.
To separate is to
Move away from the natural.
Into how many pieces,
Can one cut the sky?
- Wu Hsin
To be early or
To be late
Makes no difference
To one who is out of time.
- Wu Hsin
That which is Supreme
Has no skin; nothing to delineate
The inside from the outside.
- Wu Hsin
There is nothing wrong in this moment
Until one thinks about it.
What problem can there be if
There is no one to refer it to?
- Wu Hsin
The description can never be
The described.
Wu Hsin's word are not it;
They merely point to It.
They are a lamp
Illuminating a darkened wall.
Don't look for the lamp
On the wall.
- Wu Hsin
Thoughts are only
Bubbles in water.
They stay for a while
Then they're gone.
How can the water be enjoyed
If there is preoccupation
With the bubbles?
- Wu Hsin
I am this or
I am that is
A translation by the mind of
The sense of presence.
This presence is prior to
Any thing that can be
Referenced as this or that and is
The inherent nature of the cosmos.
- Wu Hsin
Living consciously is
Life's only purpose.
- Wu Hsin
Just as the rising of the sun
Obliterates the stars in the sky,
So too does discernment
Obliterate delusion.
With the questioning of every assumption,
The false is discarded and
The reality of What-Is shines through.
- Wu Hsin
The movement away from holiness is
Characterized by the belief that
Something need be added to
What one is.
- Wu Hsin
When the mind becomes
Entangled in its happenings,
One misses out on
What is happening.
- Wu Hsin
The integrated man
Refuses to contend.
He understands the fundamental fellowship
Between yes and no.
He discerns the manure in
The fragrance of every rose.
- Wu Hsin
The end of unhappiness occurs
In the absence of any one
Who is unhappy.
- Wu Hsin
Chow Wang had found
His god's house, yet
He balked at the door and
Could not knock on it.
Overcome by fear of
All desire is
The urge to fill that which is
Deemed to be not full.
When the sun of clear sight
Burns this cloud away,
Striving comes to an end.
- Wu Hsin
The wise are forever peaceful.
They remain calm and composed during their activities.
They realize that they are
Moved by something that is No Thing and are
Unaffected by what others do, say, or think.
They have no worries, anxieties or cares because
They understand that nothing is theirs and that
Everything is being done by this
Something that is No Thing with which
They are in conscious union.
- Wu Hsin
Things are the way they were because
That is the way they are supposed to be.
- Wu Hsin
You are your only obstacle.
The way beyond yourself is
Through yourself.
- Wu Hsin
Seeing both sides of a coin is
The only way to understand it.
Not preferring one side
To the other is
The only way to know it.
Nothing is good or bad.
Seeking to make it otherwise is
The root of unhappiness.
- Wu Hsin
Preoccupation with objects of the senses,
Preoccupation with thought,
Draws attention away from their source and
Reduces life to a series of
Inconsequential instants.
- Wu Hsin
Both the process of seeing and
The seeing of process are important.
The former facilitates the latter.
A single
sun is reflected in
Ten thousand drops of morning dew.
Seeing passed appearances,
The one source is seen.
- Wu Hsin
Wanting life to be
Other than it is is like
Wanting a river to
Flow uphill or
A cat to bark.
- Wu Hsin
Hu carried a large rock
Wherever he went.
If someone suggested he
Set it down, he replied
"If I do, I'll have nothing left"
However, the day came when
The rock became too heavy to carry.
Hu was obliged to set it down.
On that day, he acquired
A lightness of being and wisdom.
- Wu HsinThe greatest knowing is inherent and
Need not be searched for.
- Wu Hsin
Understand the nature of things and
The need for emotion subsides.
Can one resent a fig tree for
Secreting its juice?
- Wu Hsin
When asked what is
The key to his happiness,
Wu Hsin replied that
- Wu Hsin
Belief is the food of experience and
Experience is the food of belief.
- Wu Hsin
Animation is the arrival of
The observing energy
Combined with
The life energy.
For the one who knows these,
No other god is necessary.
- Wu Hsin
Those with limited views are
Constrained by fear.
The faster they hurry,
The slower they progress.
- Wu Hsin
Division is contrary to
The nature of things.
Good and bad,
Better or worse, are merely
Personal judgments
Lacking in basis.
- Wu Hsin
How much can one receive
Who is not willing to give?
- Wu Hsin
The superior man lives without intention, not
Projecting the past into the future.
Living without end-gaining,
Spontaneously,
Without referencing the already known.
His is a life without restriction,
Overflowing with fullness,
Seeing the magnificence in
The ordinary.
- Wu Hsin
The entirety of manifestation and
The observer of the manifestation
- Wu Hsin
The secrets to living are these:
First, the past cannot be improved upon.
Acknowledge what was and move on.
Next, the future cannot be molded.
Then, why bother?
Last, nothing can ultimately be controlled;
Not the past, nor the future, nor the present.
Accept this moment as it is.
Honoring these three,
One lives without shackles.
- Wu Hsin
When the mind is filled with false beliefs
There is no room for
What is true to abide there.
- Wu Hsin
Too much time is squandered on
What was and
What might be
Leaving only table scraps for
What-Is.
- Wu Hsin
This mystery of which Wu Hsin speaks:
It is unperceivable, yet
It is the very root of perception.
Although unfelt,
It causes all feeling.
The father of thought,
The mother of being,
It is the immovable background upon which
All motion occurs.
To name it is to
Diminish it.
Wu Hsin references it as
That from which all emerges and
All returns.
Saying even this is
A movement away from it.
- Wu Hsin
It is there but
It is not needed.
- Wu Hsin
Enormous effort must be made to
Earn the realization that
Effort takes one nowhere.
- Wu Hsin
Those seeking to know their god
Must begin by knowing themselves.
In knowing one's self,
One's god is known.
- Wu Hsin
The change in perspective of which
Wu Hsin speaks is
Easy to understand.
One is no longer on the outside
Looking in, but instead is
On the inside
Looking out.
The one who looks is not
Apart from the world
Looking at it, but instead is
An integral part of it.
When this is realized,
The true looker,
The conscious center of perception,
Has been found.
- Wu HsinMany worry unceasing
About the future.
Wu Hsin says:
It is better to understand the present than
To worry of the future.
Once the present is seen clearly
All worries of the future are gone.
- Wu Hsin
All that appears,
All that disappears
Can only occur against
A changeless background.
What is important is to
List all those things not given up, and then
To do so.
- Wu Hsin
The removal of misunderstanding is
The prerequisite for understanding.
The central misunderstanding is
Believing oneself to be
An intermittent, momentary, changing
Collection of memories and reactions
Referred to as the person.
- Wu Hsin
To see the usefulness of everything is knowledge.
To see the uselessness of everything is wisdom.
- Wu Hsin
At what point does
Low become high;
Small become big?
Those who apperceive
The continuum of all things
Don't waste their time on such matters.
- Wu Hsin
The Source of all things resides
Prior to all things.
It is therefore quite foolish
To seek among things
For the Source of all things.
- Wu Hsin
Wholeness is simply
The perception of the
Non-existence of any parts.
- Wu Hsin
When asked to describe clear sight,
Wu Hsin could only say
It is the difference between
Being inside a cloud and
Being outside a cloud:
Inside the cloud, one barely sees one's hand,
- Wu Hsin
This "you" has a life of its own,
Separate from You.
It is a mechanical process,
One of action and reaction.
It is that which life happens to.
There is nothing to be
Done about it;
When one understands it for
What it isn't, one
Sees it for what it is.
- Wu Hsin
"I" is a false notion,
Merely an idea of a thinker, a doer.
There are none.
There is only thinking and doing
With no one to refer to either.
- Wu Hsin
All searching takes one
Away from oneself.
Wu Hsin can't give it;
How can he give
What one already has?
- Wu Hsin
One who believes that
Peace and freedom are
Not available here and now,
Requiring time,
Requiring the future in which to find it,
Must believe in the
Ill-formed idea of practice.
- Wu Hsin
It comes when it comes:
If there were a formula for it,
Which there is not,
It would be the absence of imagination,
The absence of will,
The absence of effort,
The absence of no effort,
The absence of all movement
In any direction,
On any level,
In any dimension.
- Wu Hsin
The end of illusion is the end of you.
You can't be without illusion;
Being you means
Acknowledging illusion.
That is what "you" is.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin is a fragrance,
One of millions of fragrances,
Emitted from the flower of being.
- Wu Hsin
I am and the world is is
A single sun,
Rising and setting,
Rising and setting.
- Wu Hsin
If change is necessary,
Change will occur.
A wise man never worries about
Improving what-is.
- Wu Hsin
One loses one's self in
One's activities.
The end of enforced activity is
The beginning of discovery.
- Wu Hsin
Real contact is made when
There are no persons,
No personalities,
No individuals to meet.
- Wu Hsin
One is not part of the world.
One is the mother of the world,
- Wu Hsin
The discontinuous framework of
Being somebody
Ultimately depends upon
The continuous framework of
Being no thing in particular.
- Wu Hsin
A common impediment to
Securing what is everlasting is
The pursuit of
What is momentary.
- Wu Hsin
To live in a world of
Right and wrong,
Should and shouldn't, is to
Live in prison.
Those who are free
Naturally know what to do
In every moment.
- Wu Hsin
The heart beats
Without a beater.
The hair grows
Without a grower.
Actions occur
Without an actor.
- Wu Hsin
When the children leave home or
The crops fail,
It is not a happening to oneself;
It is a happening in oneself.
- Wu Hsin
The basis of all action is thought.
Until one apperceives
Where thought comes from,
One remains in the dark.
- Wu Hsin
To live as a personality is
To live in restriction.
The fullness of life cannot be
Constrained to the confines of a jar.
- Wu Hsin
In order for insight to blossom,
It is not what one does that matters.
What matters is
What one stops doing.
- Wu Hsin
The flower is not
Concerned about tomorrow.
It doesn't plan.
It doesn't worry about death;
Nor does it make effort to
Smell beautifully.
The flower teaches being,
Being what one is.
- Wu Hsin
The calling is not to
Go beyond the mind.
The calling is to be, which is
Prior to the mind.
- Wu Hsin
To live with anxiety,
That thought moving between
Now and what-if, is
To live life unnaturally.
The natural life is
A life of full consciousness in
The absence of thought.
- Wu Hsin
Life is,
Existence is,
Before it can be name
Before it can be labeled.
This is the Ground from which
All else emerges.
To return to the Ground,
To go Home, is merely to
- Wu Hsin
The fear of death is really
The fear of becoming nothing.
Here, Wu Hsin asks:
What if you are already nothing?
To depart from this vast nothing
In order to be
A small something is
The folly of the individual.
- Wu Hsin
Allow Wu Hsin to help you
Find this god that
You are seeking.
This god is everywhere that
"You" is not.
- Wu Hsin
Dong Ma owned a beautiful rug which
He sent it out to be cleaned.
Because his vision was not clear,
He could never see the floor;
He only saw
The absence of the rug.
- Wu Hsin
Because of the sun,
The light is.
Because one is,
The world is.
All manifestation is
The expression of its Source.
- Wu Hsin
When there is no place
One has to be,
When there is no one
One has to be,
This is freedom.
When the false is
Seen as false and
Everything is accepted
As it is,
What-Is.
This What-Is is already present,
Already manifest.
Where need one go
To search for what is
Already there?
- Wu Hsin
The Source of all things,
Makes manifest only two things:
Me and
Other than me.
See this clearly;
That is enough.
- Wu Hsin
The notion of
A thinker of thoughts is
No more valid than
The notion of a digester of food.
Both are mechanical acts,
Absent any doership.
Those who apperceive this
Never lay claim to
Any thought as mine.
When there is identification with thought,
This very identification is
The impediment to understanding.
- Wu Hsin
Any rumination on
The words of Wu Hsin is
A movement away from
What they point to.
The seed is planted,
The soil is ready,
There is nothing to do.
- Wu Hsin
Does the sun know
When it rises and sets?
Does the ocean now
High tide and low tide?
First understand what it is
That is born.
Then the mystery is dissolved.
- Wu Hsin
The mind is like
A cup that refills itself.
Emptying it is not sufficient;
It will only refill.
Once the cup is shattered,
The task is complete.
- Wu Hsin
Using the flutist's flute
Does not make one
A flutist.
Wu Hsin has no tools,
No method to render.
He speaks of how it was for him,
Not implying that it will be
Likewise for another.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin has no intended outcome in
The offering of these words,
Just as water is unconcerned
Whether or not
It quenches thirst.
- Wu Hsin
All individuals die.
Only those
Who are no longer individuals
Live forever.
- Wu Hsin
One inherent error is
The preference for
The song of the future over
The seeming blandness of
The present moment.
Another error is
Using the mind
To try to understand
The words of Wu Hsin.
A single unity.
How can the seer, therefore,
Believe itself to be separate?
Is not the one who sees
Merely another aspect of
That which is seen?
- Wu Hsin
Although feeling lost is an illusion,
It is the first step in
Finding That which can
Never be lost.
Being is the seed of manifestation in which
All actions happen.
Just as a forest of trees is
Contained in a single seed,
So all of life is in
The seed of being.
Who, therefore, is doing anything?
- Wu Hsin
Different instruments produce
Different sounds constituting
The melody of life.
The incense stick is lit.
It burns until
It is completely finished.
What remains is
The lighter of the stick.
He who sees the stick in himself and
Understands what Wu Hsin has said,
Has done very well.
- Wu Hsin
Thoughts are like
The promises of politicians and
Should be treated accordingly.
What is this body but
An animated corpse?
The investigation of the animator
Yields the knowing of which
Wu Hsin speaks.
- Wu Hsin
- Wu HsinBeing natural is
Being sacred.
Movement away from there is
Movement toward unhappiness.
The position is quite simple:
The One manifests as
The Many.
The water taken from the river is of
The same quality as
The water in the river although
It may appear in
A different vessel.
- Wu Hsin
If one sees oneself as
The center of everything with
The power to shape things
To suit one's desires, then
One has become
One's god.
- Wu Hsin
A dog does not know
He is a dog.
He only knows
He is.
If only man
Could be so fortunate.
- Wu Hsin
Identification with a body is
The birth of the person,
The individual.
The personality then acts
To protect the body from
That which is
Other than itself.
When this false identification is
Seen through,
That which one truly is
Manifests and shines.
- Wu Hsin
Deep understanding,
True understanding is permanent.
The pickle never
Returns to being a cucumber.
- Wu Hsin
Until the boundary between
Inner and outer dissolves,
All changes are only minor.
- Wu Hsin
In the cessation of duality,
Oneness is revealed.
There can be no
Being one with
There is only being.
- Wu Hsin
In ancient times,
Before there were individuals,
There were no problems.
Then, the individuals
Turned this against that and
Problems arose.
Identification with a body is
Merely a habit,
Taught to the child
Early in its life.
Breaking this habit is like
A chick breaking its shell.
What a wondrous world awaits.
- Wu Hsin
To depart from a vast no-thing
To become a small some-thing is
The pinnacle of foolishness.
Living spontaneously leaves
No time to think.
This is true living.
- Wu Hsin
Choice is an illusion.
The individual having choice or
Not having choice is
Also an illusion.
What is an illusion?
It is when things are not
As they seem.
- Wu Hsin
Once a realignment occurs,
One watches
What is happening
Without believing that
One is making it happen.
The body does what it chooses;
It wakes without permission,
Gets ill without permission.
Dies without permission.
All of this is to say,
A role is played;
Nothing more.
- Wu Hsin
Those who have re-cognized
Their true condition
Welcome whatever comes, thereby
Living life to its fullest.
The person is
A phenomenon in time.
Being is eternal.
- Wu Hsin
Devotion to a teacher is
Far less important than
Devotion to a teaching.
True stillness,
Stillness without someone
Trying to be still, is
The solvent in which
All individual conditioning
Can be dissolved.
What remains is a neutrality,
An acceptance of What-Is.
- Wu Hsin
That which is often
Referred to as Emptiness
Could as easily be
Referred to as Fullness
Insofar as it contains
The potential for every thing.
Problems no longer appear
When the maker of the problems is
No longer part of the process.
That is to say that
The solution to all problems is
The removal of
The creator of all problems.
- Wu Hsin
How many eyes are required to
See the appearance of Being?
To change the world
One need only change
The color of the glass
One looks through.
- Wu Hsin
All there is is
This manifestation and
Its perception.
This is the soup with
All the water boiled off.
Any identification with objects
Cuts off access to subjectivity, that is,
To the perceiving of
The wholeness that is inherent.
- Wu Hsin
Life is its own purpose.
That which perceives
Perceives the totality and the void.
This perceiving is prior to both.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin is but an appearance;
Appearing to speak,
Appearing to convey concepts.
In fact, this here is
Only an object.
One in a world of objects.
I am not.
Do not remain
A prisoner of imagination and hearsay.
Inquire into
The validity of your beliefs and
Realize the foundation of all things.
- Wu Hsin
The separate self is
Only a function,
Similar in this regard to digestion.
Wu Hsin asks:
Why identify with it and
Live as a fraction of fullness instead of
Fullness itself?
- Wu Hsin
What is true can shine only
Once what is false
Has been disrobed.
A thorough examination of
One's assumptions and beliefs is
All that is required to see that
There is no map for
The way things are
Supposed to be.
- Wu Hsin
Awareness is
The Source of the world.
In its absence,
Who is aware of what?
Objects are dependent upon this awareness
For their existence.
Awareness depends on nothing.
It is self-sustaining, primal and
The underlying foundation of all things.
The quality of knowing to which
Wu Hsin speaks is demonstrated by
The answer to the question
Are you alive?
No thought,
No thinker is required.
The response is spontaneous.
- Wu Hsin
What one is
Is without direction.
Therefore, all going
Takes one away from it.
In the absence of all movement,
In stillness,
It arises of its own.
Where is the world
In the absence of
That which observes it?
- Wu Hsin
The light of the fire
Casts shapes and shadows
Onto the wall.
It is the fascination
With the images that
Causes the forgetting of
The wall that supports them.
The face and
Its expression
Are not separate,
Are not two.
- Wu Hsin
Once the timeless perfection is seen
For what it is,
What can one want to add?
What can one want to take away?
That of which Wu Hsin speaks is not
An altered state.
It is the natural condition.
What most people perceive is
An altered state.
- Wu Hsin
To become re-established in the natural,
May bring about a profound change or
It may be as subtle as
A knowing that one knows that
Something is different.
Wu Hsin cannot say
- Wu Hsin
Cognition is prior to
Recognition.
The former arises in Being,
The latter is personal,
Arising from the mind as memory.
Whereas cognition is pure,
Recognition is tainted by
The supposed self-centre.
The world cognized is
A beautiful, wondrous world.
The world recognized is
Filled with alternating joy and sorrow.
It is not the mind that
Comes to this understanding.
It is the knower of the mind
Who knows this.
The moon's eclipsing of the sun
Never negates the existence of the sun.
It merely masks it.
Likewise, the personal eclipses
The divinity that
Resides in every man.
Its presence is felt in
The absence of
The seeming separate self.
- Wu Hsin
Relinquish everything
That has been acquired and
Return to that state that existed
Prior to the first acquisition.
Now, tell Wu Hsin:
Who are you?
In the single instant,
Absent any thought,
There is the clear revelation that
Nothing is wrong.
The return of thoughts herald
The return of problems.
- Wu Hsin
Nature and its natural functioning are
The beginning and the end of all things:
- Wu Hsin
For your search in this darkness,
Not even Wu Hsin can be one's lamp.
One must shine one's own light
On every belief
To come to the truth.
- Wu Hsin
In the beginning,
There was Potential.
When the Potential,
By its very nature,
Becomes the actual,
Space is born.
Time is born.
Duality is born.
The world is born.
One is born.
This is the crux of
Unitive understanding.
To be open to discover this,
One must relinquish
One's death-grip on
All mental possessions.
Each being is
Moving toward the intended outcome of
Their inherent nature.
There is action
But no actor.
- Wu Hsin
There is no greater misfortune than
Misunderstanding.
To perceive That which makes the tongue speak but
Cannot be spoken by the tongue, is
The great good luck.
There is no greater fortune than
Understanding.
- Wu Hsin
Fear is the attempt
To control the present moment.
When it becomes clear that
To be what one is
Requires no effort.
One is present,
One is aware,
Therefore, one is.
No authority,
No teacher,
Can give one
What one already is.
- Wu Hsin
Taking an illusion to be real is delusion.
Recognizing an illusion
As an illusion does not
Dissipate the illusion.
It dissipates delusion.
This is lucidity.
- Wu Hsin
There is never enough time
In the present moment
To have a thought about
The present moment.
- Wu Hsin
Difference does not mean separation.
Fingers may appear different, but
They are not separate from
The hand, which is not separate from
The body.
When all is seen as
A single, coherent unity,
Fear must dissolve because
There is nothing
Apart from oneself to fear.
- Wu Hsin
The only thing that is
More difficult than
Looking for a grain of rice in
A pile of straw is
Looking in the wrong pile.
Where are you looking for
What you are seeking?
- Wu Hsin
From the unified view,
There is nothing that is mine,
Just as there is nothing that is
Not mine.
- Wu Hsin
The more one thinks about
What-Is,
The more one veils
What-Is.
- Wu Hsin
They come and ask Wu Hsin
What to do.
What is to be done?
By whom?
Being the very heart of Being
Can be the only reply.
- Wu Hsin
The individual desires liberation.
But, liberation from what?
Liberation from the pain of
Being an individual.
Can you not see why
Wu Hsin laughs so hard?
- Wu Hsin
A central misunderstanding of
Those who visit Wu Hsin is that
They believe that
There is something to attain to.
How can one attain to
What one already is?
- Wu Hsin
Confusion is a mental state based on
Viewing events through the lens of
Unexamined assumptions.
- Wu Hsin
What can be simpler
To understand than this?
- Wu Hsin
The desire to
Acquire some esoteric knowledge
Can hold great power.
But esoteric knowledge will never
Take one to the place that is
The support of all knowledge.
Such support does not
Reside in the unknown.
Rather, it resides in the unknowable.
- Wu Hsin
Never allow concepts to
Substitute for direct insight.
- Wu Hsin
When no energy is directed toward
Perpetuating a story about an individual
The individual vanishes.
- Wu Hsin
What school must one attend to
Learn how to be oneself?
- Wu Hsin
My dear, what you are looking for is
Right in front of your eyes.
What you are looking for is likewise
Behind your eyes.
- Wu Hsin
All supposed problems are of the mind.
What is mind?
Mind is the collection of thoughts.
Where are the problems when
They are not thought about?
- Wu Hsin
All manifestation is in
The realm of the opposites:
Good and bad,
Hot and cold,
Beautiful and ugly.
In every moment?
Is this not
The heart of unhappiness?
- Wu Hsin
When thought is stopped,
Being goes on.
Thoughts come,
Thoughts go.
Being, the root,
Does not move.
You are That.
- Wu Hsin
Ruthless examination of one's assumptions
About oneself,
About who one is,
About what one is,
Removes all the falsehoods that
Undermine clear sight.
What remains is what had been
Overlooked from the beginning.
- Wu Hsin
Oneness has no reference point,
No center.
What is it that can
Stand outside of everything?
- Wu Hsin
Understanding is everything.
When the cause of the problem falls away,
The effects of the problem do likewise.
- Wu Hsin
Why visit Wu Hsin when
What is sought is within?
- Wu Hsin
Winter never wishes
It was summer.
Remove all resistance to What-Is.
This is completion.
- Wu Hsin
Light is there,
Darkness is there.
What holds them?
In what do they reside?
The solution to this mystery is
The solution to your own mystery.
- Wu Hsin
A thought appears, lingers and then disappears.
Where did it come from?
Where does it go?
There is a birth, a life, and then a death.
Where did it come from?
Where does it go?
- Wu Hsin
The only salvation that one needs is
The salvation from one's own imagination.
- Wu Hsin
The personal is
Merely an appearance.
What the person perceives is
Also an appearance.
The perceived and the perceiver are
Not separate;
They are the flavor of perception.
- Wu Hsin
There is a primal
Source of light by which
Everything is seen.
Those who have understood, know that
They are That.
- Wu Hsin
The sound of the gong
Fills the entire space of the room.
In the same manner,
Consciousness fills
The entire space of space.
- Wu Hsin
- Wu Hsin
The salt is
Already in the sea water.
The core of what the individual is,
Is in place before the individual arrives.
That which is impersonal
Appears as the personal.
The central fixation
Must be dropped:
There is no individual.
- Wu Hsin
"I am" is a translation of
The sense of pure being.
It is distorted when
It becomes personal.
- Wu Hsin
One cannot stand solidly on
One's own feet until
One's crutches are discarded.
- Wu Hsin
How can the indescribable be described?
Wu Hsin can only say that
The Knower of Being comes first;
All else follows from That.
- Wu Hsin
The disease is a simple one to diagnose;
Its primary symptom is
The continuous belief in the erroneous.
- Wu Hsin
It is only
The sense of a separate me
That is born.
The dissolution of this sense is
Its very death.
One need not die
To achieve this.
- Wu Hsin
Life pulsates.
Everything is happening but
There is no one to
Whom it is happening.
- Wu Hsin
What-Is is.
It has always been.
It will always be.
There is nothing that
Needs to be done.
There is no place to go.
There is nothing to get.
Clarity is not about adding;
It is about taking away.
- Wu Hsin
Rainwater flows through
Old pathways in the soil.
It is nature's habit.
Believing in a doer-entity is
Merely another habit.
- Wu Hsin
Reading the calligraphy,
One forgets the parchment
On which it is written.
The parchment is prior to the writing.
A subtle shift in perception
Brings the parchment to the foreground.
Then, everything is clear.
- Wu Hsin
Seeking the extraordinary,
It is
asy to overlook
The ordinary.
Yet, that which is ordinary is
The foundation and support of all things.
- Wu Hsin
The present instant,
Now,
Resides outside of time.
It is not quantifiable.
It cannot be measured.
It cannot be grasped.
It is the meeting place of
All events.
- Wu Hsin
One who identifies
With the body,
Dies with the body.
One who does not, is
Immortal.
For such a one,
There is no rebirth because
There has been no birth.
- Wu Hsin
The mirage of an egg cannot be
Shattered by any mallet.
Likewise, the mirage of a separate self
Cannot be shattered by any individual.
The individual is, itself,
The mirage.
- Wu Hsin
Peace and stillness are found at
The center of the vortex.
One receives the product of
Where one resides.
Do not live in
A noisy neighborhood if
Quiet is desired.
- Wu Hsin
Thoughts are merely stories,
- Wu Hsin
With the personal as
The reference point,
Life is viewed as if
Through a keyhole.
With the personal
Out of the way,
The fullness is clearly discerned.
- Wu Hsin
Being is the great mystery.
It cannot be found since
It is no thing; yet,
It can be felt since
It is in every thing.
Presence is acknowledging
What is here,
Right now.
Being-Presence is directing the attention to
This very instant and
Not becoming distracted by thought.
Gaining mastery over thought
Does not eliminate thought.
It merely strips it of all of
Its hypnotic power.
Then, every moment is fresh and new.
- Wu Hsin
On can never get enough of
What does not satisfy.
- Wu Hsin
There are no situations
Separate from the Totality.
All situations are
Aspects of this Totality.
The view from the Totality is
Always different from
The situational view.
- Wu Hsin
Seekers of Oneness,
Ignoring the obvious:
Wu Hsin newly presents that which is
Infinitely ancient.
Be still and understand this.
- Wu Hsin
Complete Understanding is comprised of
Both Understanding and
Living the Understanding.
- Wu Hsin
To trust in
What one thinks one knows
Leads one astray.
To trust in
The source of knowing is
The course to be taken.
- Wu Hsin
True freedom is
The absence of all agendas.
- Wu Hsin
There is only one error:
Giving attention to the content and
Ignoring the space that
Supports the content.
With a slight shift in viewpoint,
All is aligned.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin will not give you
What you want.
Wu Hsin only gives
What you need.
Then, the mysteriousness leads you to
Where you must go.
- Wu Hsin
The mind is an excellent tool
For identifying differences.
It is a poor tool
For identifying Oneness.
Why use a mallet when
The task requires an ax?
- Wu Hsin
So much more energy
Would be available if
It weren't squandered on
Maintaining a self image.
Over time, all these "myselfs"
Change, then disappear.
That which has never changed,
That which will never change, is
The fertile soil for exploration.
- Wu Hsin
All appearances are
Mere movements of energy in
The field of consciousness.
What one is, is
The knower of the field.
- Wu Hsin
Out of the fullness of emptiness,
Everything arises.
Everything returns.
Wise men understand this as
The play of life.
- Wu Hsin
There is no need to
See,
Get,
Realize or
Find out any so-called truth.
Must one see,
Get,
Realize or
Find out that one is?
That one is, is
The primal truth.
- Wu Hsin
There is nothing to practice.
All practices are like
Painting a rose so that
It will smell better.
- Wu Hsin
Smoke may fill the sky, but
The sky remains unaffected.
Once it is recognized that
One is the sky,
Events in the sky
Lose their hold.
Wu Hsin is the wind that
Blows away the smoke.
- Wu Hsin
Fighting with the mind
Strengthens the mind.
Seeing through the mind to
What is prior to it,
Takes all its power from it.
- Wu Hsin
Balance is always attained effortlessly.
Effort impedes that attainment of balance.
Wu Hsin advises:
Don't get in the way.
- Wu Hsin
One need not analyze darkness
In order to dispel it.
Light the lamp of clarity and
All darkness is dispelled.
If the question How arises,
One has not understood.
- Wu Hsin
The only difference between
A teacher and a student is that
The student believes that
There is a difference whereas
The teacher knows there is none.
- Wu Hsin
Right here,
Right now, is
All that there is.
Everything else is
A creation of the mind.
False concepts,
Shatters the shackles that
Keep one small.
- Wu Hsin
One is the space in which
The world appears.
There is nothing left to say.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin is not dispensing recipes.
There is no cook.
There is only cooking.
- Wu Hsin
Breaking a habit begins by
Acknowledging the habit.
Until this occurs,
There can be no change.
- Wu Hsin
No matter how many things
Seem to be wrong,
There are many more that are right,
Just the way they are.
When nothing is ever wrong,
One joins
The company of the wise.
- Wu Hsin
Insights may arise.
Yet, no one,
No thing, makes them arise.
The arising is a spontaneous event.
- Wu Hsin
In a room filled with objects,
There is more space,
More emptiness, than
There are objects.
This space is the support of everything and
To ignore it is
To ignore It.
One is that That,
- Wu Hsin
One is not a
Part of the whole.
One is
The Source of the whole.
- Wu Hsin
Second hand knowledge
Conveyed by a third person is
Hearsay only.
Throw away all the books,
All the stories, and
Return to the Essence
That has never gone anywhere.
There are no solutions
Out there.
- Wu Hsin
The caged bird won't fly away
Even if the door is open.
Wu Hsin can open
The door to your cage, but
There are no guarantees
Pertaining to a desired outcome.
- Wu Hsin
As the sky is
The unchanging context
For the weather.
Silent emptiness is the
Foundation of all things.
- Wu Hsin
To be perfect is
To see the Perfection.
It is this Perfection in which
The body, the mind and the world
Arise, linger and set.
- Wu Hsin
Once there is surrender to
Never finding out
Who one is,
Who one is becomes obvious.
- Wu Hsin
Man's primary function is to
Create unhappiness for others.
This ceases when
It is understood that
There are no others.
- Wu Hsin
Everything happens at the same time.
That time has a name:
Suddenly.
- Wu Hsin
When the mind is not
Preoccupied with thought,
The transitory is no longer
The center of attention.
Then, a deeper intelligence takes over, and
Everything is exactly as it should be.
- Wu Hsin
Every thing is only energy,
Sometimes seemingly harmonious,
Sometimes seemingly disharmonious.
Those that know the energy are not
Concerned with harmony or disharmony or
Labels of any kind.
- Wu Hsin
As soon as an idea arises of
How it should be or
How it should have been or
How it will be,
The center is lost.
- Wu Hsin
Can a man seek his own hands?
You are your own mountaintop.
All seeking is
A movement away from there.
- Wu Hsin
In seeing,
- Wu Hsin
It is only by
Removing all of the water-plants that
The full scope and majesty of
The water can be discerned.
The impediment is
The preoccupation with the plants.
- Wu HsinWhen the desire to become
This or that is set aside,
Being flowers.
In that, what is revealed is
"Not yet".
- Wu Hsin
Belief is a poor substitute for understanding.
To begin to question one's beliefs is to
Begin to understand.
- Wu Hsin
When both the acceptable and the unacceptable
Become acceptable,
Living is effortlessly easy.
- Wu Hsin
Seeing oneself to be
The knowing of all things and
The source of all things,
Upon which all things depend,
What is the further use of one's gods?
- Wu Hsin
There is nothing to become.
- Wu Hsin
Scrutinizing the moon
Reflected in the lake
Limits the understanding of
The moon in the heavens.
- Wu Hsin
Over the course of time,
The body changes.
The identities change,
The images of one's self changes.
Yet, something remains unchanged throughout it all.
It is mistakenly referred to as me;
Yet, it is not that.
It is That through which
All me's are known.
- Wu Hsin
The end of the individual is not
The end of greatness.
It is the end of smallness.
Wu Hsin calls this
- Wu Hsin
As long as the mind is,
The body and the world are.
The support of all these is
Before all these.
The natural ones call this Home.
- Wu Hsin
One cannot suggest that
Sugar and sweetness are separate.
Nor can one suggest this regarding
Man and his god,
Regardless of how it may seem.
- Wu Hsin
From unitary wholeness,
What needs to be done,
Comes up to be done.
This is the natural functioning.
To believe that
There is some one
Doing something,
Obscures What-Is with
What seems to be.
- Wu Hsin
True wisdom dawns with
The rejection of conventional wisdom.
- Wu Hsin
The Ultimate Ground of Being is not
Amenable to dissection.
While one may seek to
Explore the unknown,
One cannot know
The Unknowable.
- Wu Hsin
Where does Wu Hsin call Home?
He resides in the space between
The nothingness from which he emerged and
The infinity that envelops him.
- Wu Hsin
- Wu Hsin
It is a misunderstanding to believe that
One is not already
What one wants to become.
To see this clearly,
Brings becoming to an end.
- Wu Hsin
Those who chase two rabbits
Catch neither.
- Wu Hsin
The direct perception into What-Is results in
The loss of the desire to control time.
The wanting to extend the duration of happiness ends.
The wanting to shorten the duration of sorrow ends.
The fixation on what comes and goes ends as does
The preoccupation with longevity.
This rejection of time heralds
The onset of immortality.
- Wu Hsin
To see a beginning in every ending and
An ending in every beginning is
To see eternity.
- Wu Hsin
Every day, become, at the least
One gram lighter.
- Wu Hsin
Water is not wetter in
One location than another.
There is no need to go there
To obtain what is also here.
- Wu Hsin
One step closer to
The attainment of peace is
The cessation of asking
Why?
- Wu Hsin
When the words are few,
satisfaction.
happiness.
contentment.
clarity.
- Wu Hsin
Change your mind,
Change your world.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin sees things as they are.
He does not try to control them.
They continue forward while
Wu Hsin remains at the center.
- Wu Hsin
To dwell in what is personal
Impedes the realization of
The universal.
Understand that everything personal is merely
A collection of events
Happening to a centralized object,
A point of reference.
One is not the object.
What one is, is
The knowing of the object.
The pure functions of seeing,
Tasting,
Smelling,
Touching,
Hearing and
Thinking
Are not owned by anyone.
Yet, everyone claims them as their own.
- Wu Hsin
The primary desire is
The desire to be.
This births the world and its contents.
- Wu Hsin
That which remains unaffected by
The dissolution of the universe and the heavens is
The primary principle of being.
It is from this that
All arises and all returns.
- Wu HsinFoo was a wise man and
Many came to sit with him from
Different provinces and different lands.
What was it that made Foo wise?
Foo was able to see through the limited to
The Unlimited.
He never saw individuals;
He only saw everything in everyone.
- Wu Hsin
The only thing
One ever sees is
One's own world.
- Wu Hsin
What is not needed
Drops off,
If it is not clung to.
- Wu Hsin
To pursue depth is to
Desire the infinite.
To pursue width is to be
Ensnared in the world.
- Wu Hsin
Many fear Wu Hsin.
Although he is old,
- Wu Hsin
It is only ideas that
Create the notion of separation.
When it is seen that
Everything rises and sets in you,
What can you be separate from?
- Wu Hsin
The vision of unity is
The end of all things personal.
There is no event that
Delivers this unity vision.
Who could it occur to?
With nobody here and
Nobody there,
Everything is as it should be.
- Wu Hsin
All disappointment,
All disillusionment is
An invitation to investigate
Who is disappointed;
Who is disillusioned?
- Wu Hsin
The work of this moment is
Watching the work of this moment.
- Wu Hsin
Focusing on the plot of the book
Does not bring one
Closer to the author.
- Wu Hsin
Where the where is not,
When the when is not,
I am.
In every experience,
The expression is
The objective part, which is changing.
The background is
The subjective part;
The unchanging field.
- Wu Hsin
That which is by its nature restless
Can never find peace.
Peace of mind is
The mind's fantasy.
- Wu Hsin
When it is seen that
An empty cup is receptive and
A full cup cannot receive,
Those with wisdom choose emptiness.
- Wu Hsin
To be natural
Requires no learning.
- Wu Hsin
Stop pretending that what isn't is
Superior to What-Is.
It isn't.
- Wu Hsin
Either one is
Responsible for everything or
One is responsible for nothing.
The end result is the same.
Wang asked Wu Hsin:
"When shall I achieve this clarity?"
Wu Hsin replied,
"When the when is dead".
- Wu Hsin
Ignorance is the
Ignoring of what is
Clear, present, and obvious.
If the cloth fits, wear it.
- Wu Hsin
As soon as your god is assigned attributes,
It becomes merely another object in
A world of objects.
Only the non-objective god is
A great comedy.
The birth of me is
The birth of other than me....
And so the game begins.
- Wu Hsin
What makes the wise wise?
Nothing more than seeing
The One appearing as the many.
Seeing through the appearance is everything.
- Wu Hsin
Seeking ends when the fish
Understand the folly of
Searching for the ocean.
- Wu Hsin
Embrace, my child, that which
You seek to avoid;
The fear of absence.
Absence of concepts,
Absence of ideas,
Absence of anyone to have them.
To be fully present therefore requires that
One be fully absent.
This is the Great Emptying.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin gives you the key.
Either you use it
To open the door or
You put it in your pocket with
All the other keys
You have accumulated.
- Wu Hsin
Seeing through the haze of the personal,
One's actions are no longer reactions.
- Wu Hsin
To differentiate between
The guests and the host is to
Understand the distinction between
What comes and goes and
What is permanent.
- Wu Hsin
When one becomes water,
One's thirst is quenched.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin did not come from somewhere.
He is not going anywhere.
He is timeless, prescient being itself.
When circumstances require his appearance,
Wu Hsin appears.
Give up all ideas of
What you believe yourself to be,
Then, you are he.
- Wu Hsin
One is not born with an identity.
Identity is acquired.
In the absence of all acquisitions,
True being shines.
- Wu Hsin
There is great frustration in
Trying to locate
That which is non-local.
Many refer to this as searching.
Yet, one need not go anywhere
To find the Great Immediate.
- Wu Hsin
Mark your territory.
Construct as many signs as you wish declaring
This is Mine.
They are nothing but mist, because
The one who declares is also
Nothing but mist.
- Wu Hsin
Insight is the eradication of confusion.
No longer equating the way things seem with
The way things are,
Life is the ever-fresh awareness of being.
In this, the shadow cannot be
- Wu Hsin
Ultimately, one does not get free.
Instead, one realizes that
One is freedom itself.
- Wu Hsin
All suffering is personal.
In the absence of the person,
Where can suffering alight?
- Wu Hsin
The character in a book cannot
Write the book in which he appears.
Investigate whether you are
The author or the character.
- Wu Hsin
As heat is inherent in fire, so too is
Knowing inherent in being.
This is the Knowing from where
I know erroneously arises.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin tells you nothing that
You don't already know.
He only reminds you of that which
You have forgotten.
You may experience Wu Hsin as
Outside of yourself, yet truly
This is not the case.
- Wu Hsin
In the absence of
The addiction to content,
The mind is restored to
Purity and clarity.
Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling,
Touching, feeling and thinking
Continue to operate without
Anyone to initiate them.
Natural functioning occurs with ease.
Life continues its flow.
When matters are seen clearly,
It is no longer important if
- Wu Hsin
Stop talking and thinking.
Therein, nothing can remain unknown.
- Wu Hsin
To pursue appearances is to
Ignore the source of appearances.
- Wu Hsin
The entryway to the Unknown is narrow.
One must set aside all acquired knowledge so that
One may gain access.
- Wu Hsin
It is only when one is awake that
One can know one was asleep.
- Wu Hsin
To obtain this Understanding to which
Wu Hsin refers,
One must discard everything
One finds along the way.
- Wu HsinChoosing that which is safe,
That which is predictable, is
The surest way to go nowhere.
Let us be clear:
One doesn't know what is good;
One knows only what is good for oneself.
What is bad for the field mouse is
Good for the satiated owl.
- Wu Hsin
It is preferable to
Investigate one's assumptions than it is to
Attempt to solve one's problems.
- Wu Hsin
One thinks oneself to be the dancer.
In fact, one is the dancing.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin can no more help one
Find one's god than he can
- Wu Hsin
Everything is falling.
To attach oneself to anything neither
Halts nor slows one's descent.
- Wu Hsin
What one needs comes when
One doesn't ask for
What one doesn't need.
- Wu Hsin
To be certain of the immediate
Precludes the attainment of the Ultimate.
- Wu Hsin
Why are so many
So willing to exchange
Peace for thoughts?
- Wu Hsin
The final step is
The giving up of
All steps.
- Wu Hsin
Nothing new need be
Added or found.
Dig away the earth and
The pit is no longer hidden.
- Wu Hsin
To live in authentic wakefulness is to
Do one thing at a time and
To do it totally.
- Wu Hsin
One can't search for
Something to acquire while
Dropping all acquisitions.
When it is seen that
The searching does not bear fruit,
The dropping can begin.
- Wu Hsin
Wrong ideas obscure What-Is.
Loosen their hold and
Living becomes natural and easy.
- Wu Hsin
Make room for understanding.
But remember that
Making room isn't
Bringing something in from elsewhere.
- Wu Hsin
One is not in the world;
The world is in oneself.
The parchment is not the writing.
Yet, without it,
There is no message.
The world is because
One is.
- Wu Hsin
The floodgates of insight
Open of their own accord.
No one to do it;
Nothing to be done.
- Wu Hsin
The sword can never understand dueling;
Nor can the fire-pit understand cooking.
- Wu Hsin
An elegant structure has been built.
Until it is torn down,
Nothing changes......
And never confuse being
An instrument of change with being
An agent of change.
- Wu Hsin
What effort can succeed in
Stopping the shaking of the reflection of
The tree on the lake?
- Wu Hsin
- Wu Hsin
True peace is without cause.
Likewise, true happiness is without cause.
Conditioning these on any thing is
A movement away from them.
- Wu Hsin
There is a single requirement:
Don't run away.
- Wu Hsin
Freedom from all content is
The precursor to
The knowledge of content.
You are That.
- Wu Hsin
Do not add even a single concept.
One must be emptied.
Only when one is empty of
The emptiness too,
Can the fullness manifest.
- Wu Hsin
Monolithic structures are built to
Provide a ground beneath one's feet, to
Provide safety and solidity.
These structures are not real.
Seeing this, how real are safety and solidity?
- Wu Hsin
Unity is the release of
The superstition of plural spirits.
- Wu Hsin
Seeing the finite is not enough.
Seeing the infinite in the finite is
Seeing without a seer.
Here, the seeing is being.
- Wu Hsin
Those who refuse to be what they are will
Remain what they are not.
- Wu Hsin
Hell is living on the periphery.
It is where fixation on stories is
The preferred substitute to living.
- Wu Hsin
Most have difficulty seeing clearly because
Their heads are in the way.
- Wu Hsin
For all, life has a beginning,
A middle and an end.
However, it need not necessarily
Occur in that order.
- Wu Hsin
Causes produce effects which are
In themselves, new causes.
- Wu Hsin
What one comes to Wu Hsin to get,
One does not get.
Wu Hsin only gives
What one already is.
- Wu Hsin
When true emptiness is met,
Face to face,
Everything is lost.
What remains is what one is.
- Wu Hsin
Flow around obstacles.
Don't confront them, unless
The obstacle is oneself.
Before desiring to become something else,
Inquire fully into what you presently are.
What is seen is that
There is nowhere to come from and
Nowhere to go to.
- Wu Hsin
The immediacy is that there is presence-awareness.
All else that ensues is a story.
- Wu Hsin
When one is enamored with the means,
One becomes forgetful of the ends.
Once the cart has arrived,
ne doesn't continue to sit in it.
- Wu Hsin
Call it emptiness or
Call it fullness.
It doesn't matter.
Its achievement rests on
Giving up one's relationship
With one's erroneous viewpoints.
- Wu Hsin
Don't look at Wu Hsin's finger.
Look at where it points to.
- Wu Hsin
Right here,
Right now, is
All that there is.
Immersed in thought,
One misses it.
- Wu Hsin
When one changes,
Everyone changes and
The world changes.
- Wu Hsin
One must not confuse
What is innate from
What is acquired.
Divide the two,
Reject the latter and
Be.
The personalization of the functioning is the error.
There is thinking with no thinker.
There is doing with no doer.
- Wu Hsin
Words.
- Wu Hsin
The lack of concern for progress is
The only sign of progress.
- Wu Hsin
All unhappiness is
Sourced from unexamined beliefs.
- Wu Hsin
The landscape toward clear neutrality is
Littered with identities and labels.
- Wu Hsin
This heavy garment,
This personal identity,
Seems to protect.
It is merely a second skin,
One step removed from the infinite.
Take it off and
Move beyond all need for protection.
- Wu Hsin
In the transpersonal life,
The middleman is removed.
Life is lived directly.
- Wu Hsin
Cling to no method,
No path and,
No teacher.
The rope that rescues one from the raging river
Can also be used to hang oneself.
- Wu Hsin
As the voice requires its distinctive tone,
Being requires a distinctive way of being.
Wu Hsin calls this you.
- Wu Hsin
There is no need to
Go beyond the mind.
Seeing through it will suffice.
- Wu Hsin
Spontaneous living is
Devoid of musts.
The two sides of the stick are
Awareness on the one side and
The habitual and mechanical on the other.
- Wu Hsin
Whatever it is:
Happiness or unhappiness,
Joy or sorrow,
Comfort or discomfort,
Let it be.
It arrived without permission and
It will go in like fashion.
- Wu Hsin
That which perceives the world cannot be
Found in the world because
It is the world.
- Wu Hsin
Death for the caterpillar is
Birth for the butterfly.
Form yields to form.
And so it goes.
Deep wisdom is not derived from experience.
It is derived from seeing clearly
The limitations of experience.
- Wu Hsin
The pure I becomes the thought
I am, which expands to
Become I am this.
This is the Great Unfolding.
- Wu Hsin
Deep looking produces
Deep seeing.
Then, one moves from competing to
Cooperating with everything.
- Wu Hsin
To be free,
In such acceptance,
All notions of satisfaction and dissatisfaction vanish
What remains is peace.
- Wu Hsin
Here and now is
All that there is.
It is What-Is.
The rest is imagination.
- Wu Hsin
The way outward into the world is with
The emphasis of objects.
The return inward from the world is with
The emphasis on the Subject.
- Wu Hsin
Since one can perceive
One's body, senses and mind,
One stands separate from them as
Perceiving itself.
- Wu Hsin
To attempt to capture
The true essence of Wu Hsin is to
Try to observe the unobservable.
It is here that words fail.
The senses fail.
The Knowing of it is all.
- Wu Hsin
All notions of individuality are
Notions of ownership:
My body,
My thoughts,
My feelings.
Even when the error is apperceived,
It is apperceived by no one.
- Wu Hsin
The first step is to
Tear up the map.
This is the departure from
The known to the unknown.
- Wu Hsin
All there is is
Never not here,
Never not now.
- Wu Hsin
One gets further lost in
All destinations other than
Here.
- Wu Hsin
One is either cramped or
One is open.
Whereas there may be degrees of cramped,
There are no degrees of open.
- Wu Hsin
To free oneself
From oneself requires
The investigation into
The reality of this self.
From here arises freedom.
Freedom from this and that,
Freedom from yes and no.
Freedom to be
What one has always been,
Before one was someone.
- Wu Hsin
The notion that
Something needs to be added is
A subtle form of postponement.
It feeds the idea of becoming
In the space where no becoming is required.
- Wu Hsin
There must be no waiting for
Something to happen.
This something is happening in every moment.
To wait for it is to miss it.
- Wu Hsin
From the personal point of view,
- Wu Hsin
Being is being as one is,
Being as one was and
Being as one will be.
No difference.
- Wu Hsin
Life cannot be understood unless
One takes the time to observe it.
This observation must
Begin with and from the reference point:
Me.
- Wu Hsin
So much is found after
The cessation of seeking.
- Wu Hsin
The essence of Wu Hsin's words cannot be
Captured by the mind.
This is like trying to
Capture sunshine in a box.
- Wu Hsin
One is not any thing in particular.
All one really is is
The denial of everything that
One is not;
The Eternal Constant.
- Wu Hsin
Failing to see the essence,
The pot but not the clay,
The bangle but not the silver,
The writing but not the parchment,
One remains ensnared in appearances,
Taking the way things seem for
The way things are.
- Wu Hsin
Union is only necessary
When separation is imagined.
When separation is seen to be imaginary,
- Wu Hsin
Those looking for answers must
Look where the answer resides.
You are That.
- Wu Hsin
Let us not confuse beliefs with facts.
Your god is a belief.
You are is a fact.
Hold to the facts.
- Wu Hsin
Don't deny existence to
What can't be imagined.
Don't assert existence for
What is already imagined.
This is the creation of spaciousness wherein
True seeing occurs.
One knows that one is.
One knows not what one is.
When it is seen that
What one is is no thing,
The seeking and the sought are no more.
- Wu Hsin
The wise have investigated the remainders:
The clarity that remains
When the mental chatter ceases.
The silence that remains when
The external noises ebb.
The presence that remains when
The past and the future are forsaken.
It may be said that
They recede into the background.
In truth, they comprise the Background.
- Wu Hsin
One stands at the threshold,
A single thought away from perfection.
- Wu Hsin
Outside of the cage,
- Wu Hsin
One need not think
To know that one is.
No effort is required
To be.
It is only within
The realm of the personal that
Doership is required.
- Wu Hsin
None need abide in what seems to be.
Disregard the words of Wu Hsin;
Investigate.
- Wu Hsin
What does the tongue taste without It?
What can the ears hear without It?
The foundation of everything is
A precondition for everything.
To rest in the foundation of everything is
To become everything.
- Wu Hsin
The movement of the flag
Reveals the action of the wind.
As it always is,
The Unseen supports the seen.
- Wu Hsin
That which is very near is
Missed by preoccupations with
Things that are farther away.
- Wu Hsin
The world is not external.
The body is mere clothing on the Clothed.
Seeing this is seeing all.
- Wu Hsin
When the poisonous tooth is
Removed from the serpent's mouth,
The serpent can be played with like a child's
toy.
Imagines itself to be
The fish on the dinner plate.
A change in the viewpoint brings about
A change in the experience.
- Wu Hsin
One's taste of tea is one's own only.
Likewise, one's world is one's own only.
Beyond this,
Outside of one's this and one's that,
There is the invitation of Oneness.
One can speak about
Silent mind or chattering mind.
But who speaks about the source of mind,
What resides behind the mind?
Silent mind or chattering mind are conditions.
Wu Hsin speaks only of the Unconditioned.
- Wu Hsin
The actuality is always now.
- Wu Hsin
Individuality dies with
The death of the body.
Yet, individuality can die before
The death of the body.
Wu Hsin calls the latter freedom.
- Wu Hsin
One cannot choose to wake up from
Either one's dreams or
One's imaginings.
- Wu Hsin
Before pain arrives,
That which knows the
When pain arrives,
That which knows the
After pain has gone,
That which knows the
The pain is transient;
That which knows the
The Knowing, is not.
pain is present.
pain is present.
pain is present.
pain,
- Wu Hsin
Pi Dan was an expert on
All things inconsequential.
He was knowledgeable of the world, but
Of his true nature,
Of what resided at his core,
He knew nothing.
- Wu Hsin
One's mind is both friend and foe.
It creates the distortions yet has
The potential to see through them.
However, it is limited.
Mind cannot take one
Beyond mind.
- Wu Hsin
People need words until
Direct experience speaks louder.
Then, silence prevails.
It is for this reason that
Wu Hsin writes.
- Wu Hsin
To say I live is a distortion.
There is life.
Activities may change in every moment, but
That which supports the activities
Remains changeless.
- Wu Hsin
Clarity cannot be quickened.
It is already there.
It is only the veils,
The mists of thought that
Tend to obscure it.
- Wu Hsin
Empty of everything,
How easy it is to be filled.
- Wu Hsin
At the moment of one's birth,
Death begins its pursuit.
- Wu Hsin
When the preoccupation with identification falls away,
What is seen is that
Life is not a search for wholeness;
Rather, it is the expression of wholeness.
- Wu Hsin
The easiest of all things is to be
What one already is.
In that, there is nothing to attain
Nothing to gain and
No effort required.
- Wu Hsin
When the seeing is unimpeded,
The totality of perfection is recognized to
Include the totality of seeming imperfections.
- Wu Hsin
What is false need not be remedied.
It merely needs to be seen as false.
- Wu Hsin
When all the stories have been discarded,
What becomes evident is that
One ends where one begins,
In the infinite expanse of the Absolute.
- Wu Hsin
The world and
The awareness of the world is like
Clothing and nakedness:
The nakedness is always present;
The clothing simply obscures it.
- Wu Hsin
A deepening of understanding requires
A shallowness of understanding.
There is no deepening to deep understanding.
- Wu Hsin
What one is is this pristine awareness.
All that appears on it, in it, is
- Wu Hsin
Security is the freedom from
The need for security.
Clouds appear and disappear,
The sky remains unfazed.
- Wu Hsin
Individual effort to affect circumstances
Obscures life's magic.
- Wu Hsin
The one one knows,
One is not.
When the one not-yet-known is known,
No further knowing is required.
- Wu Hsin
The propriety of any action
Exists only in
The mind of the actor.
It may be deemed appropriate by some and
Inappropriate by others.
It may be deemed appropriate today and
Inappropriate tomorrow.
Wu Hsin does not squander his time judging.
- Wu Hsin
There is no going within to
A within that cannot be located.
Imaginations cannot be ended with
More imaginations.
- Wu Hsin
A flawed perspective breeds
A flawed view.
- Wu Hsin
One never sees things as they are.
One sees things as one is.
- Wu Hsin
All beliefs are woven;
True knowledge is bedrock.
- Wu Hsin
When the energy that fed it is
No longer provided,
Falsehood dies of neglect.
- Wu Hsin
Understanding is not birthed by
A mental process any more than
Blue sky is created by
A clearing in the clouds.
- Wu Hsin
The world comes in to being with
The division into I and other-than-I.
Returning to that point prior to the division is
The restoration of unity.
- Wu Hsin
Separate is not something one is.
Separate is something one does.
With its cessation,
Lucidity is unveiled.
- Wu Hsin
There exists a core concept upon which
Everything else is constructed.
This core concept is me or I,
The notion of a distinct entity that
Stands apart from the world.
It is only when this is seen as false that
What is true, What-Is, may shine.
- Wu Hsin
The most subtle,
The most obvious is
The easiest to overlook.
The paper is forgotten when
The parchment is read.
- Wu Hsin
The pristine awareness is forgotten when
The face of the god is seen.
Without this pristine awareness,
Me.
- Wu Hsin
There may be many messengers but
The message is one:
Refuse to be what you are not;
Be as you are.
Wu Hsin's words are not
A conversion from one set of ideas and beliefs to
Another set of ideas and beliefs.
They point to the liberation from all ideas and beliefs.
Within this emptiness,
The fullness of life calls.
- Wu Hsin
It is so near.
It is so obvious.
As to see the sun
Requires no candle,
So it is to see this nearness.
One need not know
What it is to know
That it is.
By that which one knows one is;
One is That.
- Wu Hsin
The center of observation is
Open and unbiased.
It is all pervading intelligent energy.
All movement away from the center is
Movement toward contraction and limitation.
- Wu Hsin
To tell one's story requires time.
To perpetuate one's story requires time.
To obliterate one's story requires no time.
- Wu Hsin
Direct cognition is available here and now.
All that is required is
The release of the stranglehold on
One's erroneous beliefs.
The parents,
- Wu Hsin
At the first moment of clarity,
The desire to improve the mirage ceases.
- Wu Hsin
Looking deeply into the nature of things,
Finding no thing is what is found.
Phenomena appear, linger and go.
There is no permanency.
- Wu Hsin
There exists a Great Equanimity that
Regulates and balances all things.
The recognition of this lessens
The work of each individual until finally,
There is no work and
There is no individual.
- Wu HsinClear sight requires the dropping of
All points of view.
Absent a center of reference,
Things are seen as they are.
The world takes care of itself.
The work gets done.
- Wu Hsin
The whole world may perish.
That which one is, endures.
- Wu Hsin
The man who is wise
Knows himself in all things and
All things in himself.
He apperceives no essential difference between
The arising of the perceived and its perception.
- Wu Hsin
As the sun is not soiled by
The smoke in the sky,
The lucid ones experience everything
Yet remain unmoved.
- Wu Hsin
Embracing nothing.
Rejecting nothing.
One stands outside the totality.
Watching, watching.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin declares:
What belongs to me,
I am not.
- Wu Hsin
Appearances offer strong distractions.
One must swim against the current to
Return to the Source.
- Wu Hsin
The kingdom continues
After the king is gone.
Onto fertile land,
Many things may sprout, flower, and then wither.
The land remains unfazed.
- Wu Hsin
The person is the seemingly ongoing
Narration of separateness and is
The very movement away from
The oneness it declares it desires.
- Wu Hsin
The road ends where it began.
Seeing that there is nowhere to get to,
One does not move.
That which does not move is
The ground of all movement.
- Wu Hsin
Let the focus remain on
What is here and now.
The rest is not worthy of consideration.
- Wu Hsin
One is in
Whatever one sees;
The very fabric of the universe.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin does not doubt
That if one meditates
Long and
Hard and
Correctly,
There will be results
Of one sort or
Another.
But until meditation
Eliminates the meditator
The goal has not been achieved.
- Wu Hsin
The source
Of every thing
Cannot be
Any thing.
Why, then, search
For what cannot
Be found?
- Wu Hsin
No actor
Can change his role
On the stage
According to his preferences.
Wu Hsin laughs
When you speak about
Your plans.
- Wu Hsin
My child,
Your very effort
Is the hole you are trying
To climb out of.
Your desire to be free of
All your perceived limitations is
What threw you into it
In the first place.
- Wu Hsin
One of man's strongest desires
- Wu Hsin
Despite what you believe
Life is not
The opposite of death
Birth is
The opposite of death
The two form
One whole.
Life is what is
Prior to birth and death,
As one totality.
Prior to this totality
Is the potential for this totality
As is inherent
In its nature.
- Wu Hsin
One lives in the house but
Is not the house.
To mistake the house for oneself
Is the only impediment to Understanding.
- Wu Hsin
Man creates his god
To reconcile his powerlessness.
This god is prayed to and beseeched
To grant man's wishes.
If the prayers are successful,
It is the god's grace; if not
It is the god's fault.
Liang Po asked Wu Hsin:
"Who created the man who
Created the god?"
- Wu Hsin
See the world as a process with
Enormous activity and
No independent actors.
It is a story unfolding, yet
A story already written.
- Wu Hsin
Poison cannot poison
Itself.
Who is there to
Seek to know
The Unknowable?
- Wu Hsin
The distinction between
There is and
I am
Is the distinction between
The Subject and
Its object.
When the mirror's image is
Understood to be nothing
Other than the face,
All fears and doubts
Are vanquished.
- Wu Hsin
Right and wrong
Happiness and sorrow
Love and hate are all only
Interpretations,
Subject to reversal
In any moment.
Why embrace the changeful
At the expense of
The Changeless?
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin wrote before that
The sky is never
Affected by smoke.
Why do you concern yourself with
What others are doing or
Saying?
They are only drawing
Images of fish
On the surface of the water.
- Wu Hsin
To expound on the state of
What-Is is like speaking about
The taste of the tongue.
- Wu Hsin
Neither action nor inaction
Can result in tranquility.
Only the deep understanding of
Tranquility
Can result in
Tranquility.
- Wu Hsin
Everything occurs
Exactly as it is intended.
As such,
There are no mistakes.
Why are you seeking
Forgiveness?
- Wu Hsin
The highest motivation that
Wu Hsin can provide is
To tell you that
You are not what
You seem
To be.
- Wu Hsin
Two men from Guo come to
Listen to Wu Hsin speak
About spontaneity and
How it is
The natural way.
They tell Wu Hsin that
They understand and that
It is their intention
To be spontaneous.
Intending to be
Spontaneous,
They haven't heard
A single word I say.
- Wu Hsin
Tell me please
Who is it
Who places
Inside it?
Can you accept
All things
As they are and
Allow whatever movement
Is required
To occur?
Can you be peaceful?
Can you be
The embodiment of
Peace itself?
- Wu Hsin
Up cannot exist
In the absence of down.
Backward cannot exist
Without forward,
Nor beauty without ugliness.
Accepting this as an aspect of
The nature of the world
Allows one's preferences to soften
And for peace to flourish.
- Wu Hsin
People come to Wu Hsin
Seeking instruction
On how to return Home.
What directions can I offer you
To the place you have never left?
- Wu Hsin
The moment before movement is
Filled with emptiness.
It is the beginning of
The beginning.
Containing the potential for
Everything,
It is limitless.
- Wu Hsin
If given the choice
Between one thousand gold coins
And Total Understanding
Wu Hsin tells you
- Wu Hsin
Upon the release
Of the need
To be either this
Or that
Comes an opening
To the splendor of
What-Is, the Real.
All storylines dissolve.
The dramas end and
The wind of peace
Blows across the countryside.
- Wu Hsin
Death surrounds you.
It walks beside you
In every moment.
Death is the end,
The end of this and
The end of that.
Every moment dies.
Everything that has a beginning
Ends in death.
Running from death,
Denying that everything must
Come and go,
Is the prerequisite
For unhappiness.
- Wu Hsin
The world of Wu Hsin is
A world without distance.
We measure distance between
Two separate points:
Here and there
You and I.
Remove the sense
Of separateness and
Distance loses all meaning.
- Wu Hsin
This moment is unique.
It has never happened before
Nor shall it
Shapeless.
Resting in the circle is
Acceptance.
The masters know this while
The people do not.
- Wu Hsin
This world offers
So many distractions
That it is difficult
To perceive
The magnificence of
What is ordinary.
The simpler things get
The more beautiful
This life becomes.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin says that
The most effective way
To avoid deep understanding
Is to seek it.
The very busyness that
You enfold yourself in is the impediment
To your heart's
Deepest desire.
- Wu Hsin
The Master to seek is
One who
Has nothing to give you,
Who likewise
Gives you nothing to do,
Who promises neither
Special experiences nor
To take you
Anywhere in particular, and
Who is disinterested in
Your adoration.
Are you brave enough
For this one?
- Wu Hsin
The past is
An impression,
A footprint,
A belief,
A memory.
The future is
A projection,
A presumption,
A conjecture.
Neither can be truly
Accessed or known
With certainty.
Between the two
Lies the splendor of
The present,
Available to all
Who are willing to release
Their preoccupation with
The past and the future.
- Wu Hsin
All there is
Is Everything
Of which man is
A tiny cog.
That this cog
Wishes to understand everything
Provides Wu Hsin with
Endless entertainment.
- Wu Hsin
Arrogance,
Pride,
Greed,
Envy,
Avarice,
Jealousy.
You bring them
To Wu Hsin and ask that
They be taken away.
I cannot.
The only one who
Can take them away
Is the One
Who put them there.
- Wu Hsin
The essential confusion is between happening and doing.
In time, everything is happening.
Yet, there is no individual doer
Doing anything.
It is all
Being done.
It is all happening.
- Wu Hsin
Clear seeing of this is
All that is required.
- Wu Hsin
Just as every drop of the ocean
Contains the taste of
The ocean,
So, too,
Every being
Contains the taste of
Pure being,
Before being anything in particular.
- Wu Hsin
You say you are
Afraid of dying
May I suggest that
You are
Afraid of living,
Afraid of life?
If this were not the case,
Why do you spend
So much time
Regretting the past and
Worrying about the future?
The past is dead
The future is
Yet to be born and
You cannot control it.
If you drop these imaginations, then
This moment takes on a
Whole new brilliance.
- Wu Hsin
The underlying essence is
Obscured by
Names and forms.
The roots are forgotten
Amidst the beauty of the garden.
- Wu Hsin
The wave and
The ocean
May appear separate.
The subsidence of the former reveals
That all there ever was
Was the latter.
You are Immanence Itself.
- Wu Hsin
Others have given you
Methods and ways
To find the Formless.
Stop for one moment and
Think, my son:
How can the Formless be found?
Others have given you
Methods and ways
To achieve Oneness.
- Wu Hsin
Stop for one moment and
Think, my son:
Is not the achievement of Oneness
Preconditioned on the assumption of
Two-ness, of
Duality, of
You and not-you?
How can you merge with
What you already are?
- Wu Hsin
Balance is achieved using
Equal parts of
Positive and negative......
Or in the absence
Of both.
- Wu Hsin
Oneness with Everything
Requires surrender to every thing and
Trusting in everything.
- Wu Hsin
For this moment to be
Exactly as it is
Requires the cooperation
Of every aspect of
The cosmos.
- Wu Hsin
Change any and
This moment is transformed into
Some other moment.
When the cosmos cannot
Be stuffed into a box or
Understood,
Man calls it chaos.
- Wu Hsin
During times of adversity,
Man will initiate
Negotiations with his god,
Asking that What-Is be made subservient to
His personal will.
By altering even one,
The many are recast.
This is not seen by the supplicant
Who instead chooses to believe
His prayers have been answered
When, in fact, they have merely been
In alignment with
What was intended.
In truth,
All prayers are answered;
Sometimes, the answer is No.
- Wu Hsin
There are many signposts
Along the way and
Even more
Worshippers of
The signposts.
- Wu Hsin
Sacredness is not reserved
Only for the things
Deemed acceptable.
Sacredness imparts its stamp on
Everything and everyone:
The saint and the sinner
The profane and the profound.
- Wu Hsin
The one without expectations is not
Disappointed.
The one who doesn't plan
Cannot attain a goal.
Acceptance of what comes is
The prescription for steadiness.
- Wu Hsin
An increased sense of peace and balance is
The byproduct of
No longer believing
The thoughts that appear.
They are like smoke.
Wait a moment;
They'll be gone.
- Wu Hsin
Desire is a gift.
It causes a noticing of
What is perceived to be lacking.
Noticing is the key to be
Free from desire.
- Wu Hsin
A life lived in can't know,
Don't know,
No need to know, is
A weightless life,
A life of light-heartedness and
Effortlessness.
- Wu Hsin
Wanting any condition to last,
Attaching contentment to it, is
The basis for unhappiness.
Happy in its presence,
Unhappy in its absence.
Accept that everything
Comes and goes.
It is the nature of
The world.
Transcend the attachment,
Transcend the world.
- Wu Hsin
O
A lifetime can be exhausted
Enumerating all the variables
Outside of one's control.
So what?
- Wu Hsin
Power is not acquired
By grabbing it.
It is acquired
Through releasing.
This is not the power of gaining;
It is the power of alignment.
- Wu Hsin
The best meditators are
Always successful because
They aren't seeking anything.
- Wu Hsin
Man is the embodiment of action;
Doing not doing is
Not an option.
Upon the arising of clear sight,
All ensuing actions are correct.
- Wu Hsin
Discarding concepts is
The direct path to the attainment of
Clarity.
Devoid of riches.
Stand back and
Perceive the larger picture.
Stand farther back and
The sweetness deepens.
There is no end to this.
- Wu Hsin
Just as the heart
Continues to beat,
The mind
Continues to think.
Can one stop the heart
While life continues?
If the cessation of thought is temporary,
Its efficacy is minimal.
- Wu Hsin
The world is a unified whole.
The personal world is
Only a point of view.
While the eradication of termites
Might be good for the home dweller,
It is less favorable
For the termites.
- Wu Hsin
There are no other
Places to go to.
The only place is Here.
Attempting to go There
Because Here is undesirable is
Like trying
To bite one's teeth.
- Wu Hsin
The cessation of involvement is
The opening of
The great gate.
Upon doing so,
All is perceived without judgment,
Perceived to be as it is.
- Wu Hsin
A deep dissatisfaction
With things external is
The impetus for the turning away,
The turning within.
Until then,
The mesmerization with the circus goes on.
What is amusing to Wu Hsin is that
The audience fails to understand that
It, too, is part of the circus.
- Wu Hsin
Some are emperors,
Some are clowns, and
Some are beggars.
In the end,
The role is relinquished and
Each returns to where
All is one and where
All of this is
A part of That.
- Wu Hsin
The sage doesn't have
All the answers.
The sage doesn't have
Any more questions.
- Wu Hsin
A drunkard's sudden ability to
Give up drinking is
The result of confluence:
The drunkard was willing
To give up the drinking and
The drinking was willing to
Give up the drunkard.
- Wu Hsin
To worship Wu Hsin is
Merely the exchange of one idol
For another.
A transference from
Yourself to myself.
Nothing is accomplished except
The creation of
- Wu HsinEverything happens.
There is no problem with that.
Problems arise when what happens
Happens to a you.
The understanding that
Nothing happens to you
Releases the habitual creation of
The story to which
Man is enslaved.
- Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin may talk for years on end.
However, he can never convince a blind man of
The beauty of a rainbow.
- Wu Hsin
To surrender all that
One is not,
One must first know all that
One is not.
Until then, do not
Speak to Wu Hsin of surrender.
- Wu Hsin
Most get entangled in the branches and the leaves
Instead of seeking out the root.
The root points back to the seed and
The seed is the source of all.
- Wu Hsin
As the eye cannot see itself,
One cannot witness what one is.
One can only be witness to what one isn't.
- Wu Hsin
With the assignment of form,
Limitation is birthed.
Prior to form is
The abode of the Limitless.
Its doorway is the cessation of imagination.
- Wu Hsin
The inability to see
- Wu Hsin
Pain may arise;
Don't worsen it with resistance.
Pleasure may arise;
Don't diminish it by grasping.
Allow all to be as it is.
- Wu Hsin
I am that which remains after
The body goes.
I am freedom,
Free from the need to be free.
- Wu Hsin
The hardest work
One can do is
The separating of oneself from everything.
- Wu Hsin
Life continues exquisitely on while
You remain preoccupied with you.
In this, so much of life is missed.
- Wu Hsin
Trusting that whatever brought you here will
Take you there is
The end of all effort.
- Wu Hsin
All there is is this appearance and
That to which it appears;
They are not two.
Everything else is conceptual.
- Wu Hsin
There is no new knowledge to be acquired,
But old assumptions will fall away.
- Wu Hsin
Have the confidence to doubt yourself.
- Wu Hsin
What is it that knows when
There is a cessation of thought.
- Wu Hsin
The fulfillment of desires never
Fulfills the promise of desires.
- Wu Hsin
Whereas it is important to
Question the validity of
What is seen,
It is even more important to
Question the authenticity of the seer.
- Wu Hsin
There is nothing to get.
When one becomes sufficiently
Exhausted from looking for it,
One gets it.
There is nothing to give up.
What requires giving up will be
Taken in due course.
- Wu Hsin
To be conscious of change
Proves the changelessness of consciousness.
- Wu Hsin
It is the beingness that
Observes all of manifestation.
Only the wise observe beingness.
To remain fascinated with the stalk,
Keeps the root hidden.
- Wu Hsin
One finds Reality when
One returns to
What is real in oneself,
The light that illumines all perceptions.
- Wu Hsin
Lucid living is
A life in equilibrium.
When the portals of perception are clean,
Infinity is revealed.
- Wu Hsin
- Wu Hsin
Whereas Wu Hsin does not teach,
Those that listen to Wu Hsin learn.
- Wu Hsin
Immortality is not dependent upon one's ability to
Extend one's personal illusion indefinitely.
It is dependent solely on one's ability to transcend it.
- Wu Hsin
Being is Reality.
Being this or that is not.
- Wu Hsin
One's view of the world is the same as a dream.
It continues to seem real only as long as
One remains asleep.
The Doer
And that each is an actor
On the stage.
The script is written
The sets arranged.
Watch the play,
Enjoy it.
Laugh, cry,
But never make the story
Your own.
- Wu Hsin
Postscript:
Have no worries about
Being apart from Wu Hsin.
Wu Hsin is not leaving.
Wu Hsin is not going away.
Where would Wu Hsin go?
Never not here,
Wu Hsin is Now
Here
Always.
- Wu Hsin