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Wu Hsin QuotesThis is the present condition:
Birth is the entry to phenomenality.
Death is the exit from phenomenality.
All that requires insight is:
Who is born and ho dies!
"r better stated:What is born and hat dies!
# Wu Hsin
The attachment to beliefs is
The greatest shac$le.
To be free is
To $no that
"ne does not $no.
# Wu Hsin
"ne is hat
"ne absorbs
# Wu Hsin
The end of questioning is
The same as
The end of see$ing.
%urther and further explanations
Do not pro&ide
That hich is sought.
Additional informationDoes not pro&ide
That hich is sought.
Drop these acti&ities and
'est in hat is
(rior to all mental acti&ity:
Aareness.
# Wu Hsin
)ound is the same but
*ts expression Through &arious instruments is di+erent.
)o it is ith Being.
# Wu Hsin
Half $noledge cannot ta$e one
To full isdom.
,noledge of the orld is inferior to
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,noledge of that hich
Births the orld and is
(rior to it.
# Wu Hsin
What problems can there be that The mind did not create!
The solution to problems begins ith
The cessation in belie&ing in
The content of one-s thoughts.
# Wu Hsin
To $no that one is is natural.
To $no hat one is
'equires a di&ing into the depths of
"ne-s on being.
The pearl rests on the bottom.
# Wu Hsin
An e&ent becomes
An experience through
(ersonal in&ol&ement.
/ollecting experiences can be
Helpful ith the daily aspects of life
But it is not
The road to happiness.
# Wu Hsin
*t is understood that
)leep is the desire for
A period of rest
%or the body.
*t is less understood that
)leep is the desire for
A period of rest
Aay from the body.
# Wu Hsin
The inherent nature of mind is
To process thought.
To attempt the cessation of thought
0oes against hat is natural.
The goal therefore is not
The cessation of thought.
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The goal is cessation of
*denti1cation ith thought.
# Wu Hsin
All this running around
(raying and ma$ing o+erings so that The next life ill be better than
This life.
What silliness2
3ife after this death is
4ot di+erent than
4or better than
3ife before this birth.
# Wu Hsin
At the root
There is no di+erence beteen
)eparation and dissatisfaction.
This is so because
%eeling separate and apart is
The primary dissatisfaction.
# Wu Hsin
Thoughts intrude li$e
5nelcome guests at a party.
*gnored and unfed
They depart.
# Wu Hsin
What is called peace by many is
6erely the absence of disturbance.
True peace cannot be disturbed7
*t resides beyond the reach of disturbance.
# Wu Hsin
4othing is as it seems.
The common &ie is that There is a sub8ecti&e obser&er
"bser&ing an ob8ecti&e orld7
The former separate from
The latter.
4othing is as it seems.
# Wu Hsin
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When here becomes
9&eryhere and
4o becomes
Alays then
"ne has succeeded.
# Wu Hsin
When one is enthralled ith
The beauty on the surface of the ocean
The immensity of its depths can
4e&er be discerned.
# Wu Hsin
The )ource and )ubstance of e&erything
Has no name.
When Wu Hsin names it:
The 9ternal or
The *n1nite or
What#*s or
That or
The 6ystery or
The Absolute
He merely points to *t.
6a$e a list of
All your pains
our sorros
our hurts and disappointments. This too is
(art of *t.
# Wu Hsin
There is reading
But no reader of this riting
Without an author.
The merger of
The reading and the riting is
Deep insight and understanding.
# Wu Hsin
Ho many ha&e there been
Who ha&e come to Wu Hsin
To as$ ;Why!;
Why is this! or
Why is that!
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;Why!;
As there are many perspecti&es
There can be many ansers.
et in the end
The best anser to ;Why!; is
Why not!
# Wu Hsin
*t is man
Who is in mo&ement
Against the bac$ground of immobility.
But ho mo&es the mo&ed!
# Wu Hsin
We are a
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The changeless.
# Wu Hsin
All of the orld ith its
(ast present and future
Arises e&ery morning and)ets e&ery night
To arise again the next day.
The $noer of this has mo&ed
"ut of in&ol&ement and
*nto the understanding that
*n order for this orld to be $non
The $noer must precede it.
# Wu Hsin
The one ho considers himself
To be free
*s free.
The one ho considers himself
To be bound
*s bound.
The only prison is mental.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin has no sumptuous bu+et
(resented on a sil&er platter.
The o+ering is basic fare To be eaten and fully sa&ored.
Then there is nothing remaining
%or one to do.
# Wu Hsin
/ontrolling the mind doesn-t
Ta$e one to freedom.
/ontrolling the mind
Adds another lin$
To one-s shac$les.
# Wu Hsin
'egardless of ho fast one runs
There is no escape
%rom oneself.
The impetus of this escape is
This state hich is
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Belie&ed to be unsatisfactory.
To succeed one must relinquish
The smaller for
The greater.
# Wu HsinWhereas pain is
A physical experience
)u+ering is a mental one.
*t is the sense that
Things should be
"ther than they are.
*ts antidote is
Acceptance.
# Wu Hsin
The trance of separateness is
The 8ail.
The imagination is
The 8ailer.
When one no longer belie&es
What one imagines oneself to be
The cell door opens and
The reali=ation dans that
A life 1lled up ith being somebody is
An empty existence.
# Wu Hsin
When the aterheel stops turning
What happens to
The energy that turned it!
*s it said to be used up or
That it remains dormant
To turn again!
When the body dies
What dies and
What goes on! That hich animated the body
/eases to do so.
This That is not a+ected and
The cycle continues.
# Wu Hsin
0ods and their uni&erses
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/ome and go.
A&atars appear in unceasing succession.
*n the end that hich as present
At the beginning
'emains.
*nstead of scurrying here and there
6an must stabili=e in
That hich supports him.
"nce stabili=ed
All scurrying becomes
)pontaneous and appropriate.
# Wu Hsin
The reformation of others
6ust not ta$e precedence o&er
The reformation of oneself.
'eforming oneself requires
The remembrance of the days
(rior to hich
"ne became an indi&idual.
# Wu Hsin
)olitude is not
A condition of the body.
*nstead it is
A condition of the mind.)olitude may be found
*n the busy mar$et or
6ay be elusi&e in the forest.
# Wu Hsin
Do no mista$e
The 1&e points of a star
%or 1&e stars.
All there is
*s a single unitary9&erything.
# Wu Hsin
The see$er of union
6ust admit separation.
%or the $noer of union
There is nothing to do.
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# Wu Hsin
There is no di+erence beteen
That hich dells
Within a sparro and
That hich dells in The body of man.
To instruments7
"ne large
The other small.
# Wu Hsin
The best altar has
4othing on it.
# Wu Hsin
What Wu Hsin says
'equires no explanation.
9xplanation requires concepts and
/ogitation.
That is not the ay.
Wu Hsin plants the seed in the soil7
*t gros at its on pace.
# Wu Hsin
"penness has no location in particular.
*t contains e&erything.*t contains thoughts and
The absence of thoughts.
*t contains feelings and no feelings
)ights and no sights
)ounds and silence.
Within openness
9&erything is in&ited and
9&erything is accepted.
There is no ay
To be open because There is no di+erence beteen
Being open and
Being.
# Wu Hsin
*n human beings
There is a need
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To create order
"ut of hat is
(ercei&ed to be chaos.
This ordering mechanism is
The mind.
As such the mind see$s causes To explain hat it
Doesn-t understand.
*s the carrot the cause of the chic$en soup
"r is it the chic$en
"r is it the broth
"r is it the coo$!
With the apperception that
9&erything is perfect as it is that
9&erything causes e&erything else
The mind as 1xer
As 8udge
As organi=er
3oses its rele&ance.
# Wu Hsin
Words are the net used
To capture the orld.
6ind is the means used
To de&our the orld.
Both fail7
/an the ind be $ept inA box!
Truth is hal&ed hen
*t is told.
# Wu Hsin
A common misconception is
The belief that thin$ing is
The creation of thought.
'ather it is
The reception of thought fromA source hich has no name and
%rom a place that cannot be found.
)ince one can-t decide to thin$
4or can one decide
Thoughts- contents
Why does one
/laim their onership!
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*s e&ery sound Wu Hsin-s because
He can hear them!
# Wu Hsin
Do not come to Wu Hsin as if
To a tailorWith an order for a garment here
The style fabric and measurements
Are all predetermined and acceptable.
'ather desire to come aay nude7
Denuded of concepts beliefs and
All ideations.
# Wu Hsin
The personality is li$e
A unique color.
When its or$ is done
*t returns to the colorless
%rom here it emerged.
# Wu Hsin
Do not become preoccupied ith
What occurs after death unless
There is illingness to die today.
This death hich is only
The death of identi1cation is
The dooray to liberation.
# Wu Hsin
*mmanence
*ntemporal
*mpersonal and
*n1nite
*s the can&as
"n hich the orld
Appears and disappears.
Drops on a can&as4othing more is
6an.
# Wu Hsin
All men are see$ers from birth.
%irst they see$ to suc$
%rom their mother-s breast.
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3ater they see$ ealth or fame
"r security
"r poer
"r lo&e
"r peace.
)ee$ing itself is The fundamental condition of the orld and
The see$er is merely the instrument
Through hich it occurs.
# Wu Hsin
3et us go upstream
%or a moment
To a place before
ou and me7
Before
All you-s and all me-s.
This place is called
Beginning.
9mpty yet full
"f potential
*t is from here that
All emerges.
# Wu Hsin
Here is the utter
)implicity of the matter:*n the absence of identi1cation
With any thing
Who are you!
"r better still
What are you!
# Wu Hsin
The sight of the face of
our god
/ontinues to be elusi&e.Ho can the %ormless
That per&ades e&ery aspect of
9&ery thing
Be seen
"r heard
"r smelled
"r touched
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"r tasted!
At the core Wu Hsin as$s:
Ho is immanence discerned!
The anser is $non to those
Who understand that
There is no di+erenceBeteen the substance and
That hich animates it.
# Wu Hsin
The 5ltimate 5nderstanding is
An impersonal e&ent
"ccurring in phenomenality.
As such there is no need for you
"r any you
To be concerned about it.
0o about your business and
9n8oy life.
# Wu Hsin
%or many
The 1rst step on
A spiritual 8ourney is to
Become lost.
The 1nal step is
3osing one-s self.
# Wu Hsin
To dra ater from this ell
/alled Wu Hsin
"ne must bring a buc$et and
Ten feet of rope.
6ost arri&e ith eight feet of rope
Then lea&e
Belie&ing the ell to be dry.
*t is as it is.
# Wu Hsin
3ife is experienced
As a series of e&ents
Happening to an indi&idual.
Wu Hsin says:
3ife is happening.
The indi&idual is merely
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"ne of the series
"f e&ents.
# Wu Hsin
/hasing after the things
"ne yearns for is*nferior to
/hasing after
The source of the yearning.
# Wu Hsin
The entire uni&erse is
The teacher
*f one is illing to end
The entrancement ith
The momentary.
3essons then become boundless.
# Wu Hsin
9bbing begins hen
Tides are at their highest.
When the unbearable is recogni=ed
To be bearable
(rofound transformation occurs.
# Wu Hsin
Ho can it be otherise!(erfection contains all
*mperfection7
The smaller ithin the larger.
Do not chastise your gods
%or the aspects of life deemed
5nacceptable.
# Wu Hsin
To search for happiness
*mplies its absence. This implication is a fundamental
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"ccurring after the e&ent and
Distorting it by &arying degrees.
The distance beteen the e&ent and
The experience is directly related to
The scale of in&ol&ement of
The experiencer.
# Wu Hsin
*nfancy comes then
/hildhood and adulthood
%olloed by middle age and lastly
"ld age.
All these stages come and go upon
That hich is immo&able.
# Wu Hsin
>ieed through the lens of time
6any important things are
'endered unimportant.
# Wu Hsin
Although a mouse in a ell
,nos nothing about
The sparros in the s$y
*n the moment of its escape
9&erything changes.
# Wu Hsin
The preoccupation ith
The foreground the sights
The smells
The sounds
Ta$es the attention aay from
The bac$ground.
et it is in this &ery bac$ground that
The 6ystery resides.
# Wu Hsin
When there is no inside
4o outside
4o top
4o bottom
4o breadth
4o idth
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4o surface and
4o depth then
There is only here and
There is no place else to go.
# Wu Hsin"ne is carried on a raft
Within a
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)omething more digestible.
# Wu Hsin
/ontrary to popular belief
The percei&er and that
Which is percei&ed are To ends of
The same stic$.
The absence of one is
The absence of both.
The absence of e&erything
5nco&ers the presence of
The )eed of e&erything.
# Wu Hsin
Whate&er has been clung to as myself
Disappears in the course of time.
et hat has been steady throughout is
"&erloo$ed.
# Wu Hsin
6any ritings spea$ of
The /reator.
et in truth
This /reator is only
Another creation.
Who created The /reator!
# Wu Hsin
What begins as a crac$
Becomes a indo
Then a door
5ntil the entire structure &anishes.
Wu Hsin calls this
The unfolding of aareness.
# Wu Hsin
There is no forest
There is no ca&e
There is no mountaintop
Where one can hide
%rom oneself.
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# Wu Hsin
"ne cannot acquire true $noledge and
6aintain a hold on ignorance.
The to are mutually exclusi&e.
'elease of the latter is
A precondition for theArri&al of the former.
# Wu Hsin
When &ision and compassion
9xpand to include the opposition
The opposition ceases to oppose.
# Wu Hsin
)lo ripening and rapid
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"ne-s feet are tied.
# Wu Hsin
All experiences are transitory.
The ise man neither see$s nor
'e8ects them.*n this manner
"ne remains rooted in
The 5nchanging
The stage upon hich
All change occurs.
%or many
What they belie&e to be
Their castle is in fact
Their 8ail.
The addiction to the drug called intellect
'esults in analysis of e&erything.
All this perusal
9&aluation and
Analysis complicates
What is simple.
Becoming purely recepti&e
)trips aay the false
3ea&ing the great gate to open then
The addiction to the drug called intellect
'esults in analysis of e&erything.
All this perusal9&aluation and
Analysis complicates
What is simple.
Becoming purely recepti&e
)trips aay the false
3ea&ing the great gate to open then
What#*s is clearly comprehended.
# Wu Hsin
The greatest en8oyment is experiencedWhen there is no concern for its duration.
When there is indi+erence to outcomes
"ne is illing to or$ ith
3ess than ideal means and
(ostponement is a&oided.
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# Wu Hsin
5tili=ing the mind in the attempt to
Achie&e 5ltimate 5nderstanding is
A$in to hiring a thief to
(rotect a house from burglars.
# Wu Hsin
6an can do
Whate&er he ants.
Hoe&er he cannot
Will hate&er he ants.
# Wu Hsin
our reading these ords
*s e&idence enough to Wu Hsin that
The hoo$ is already
*n the 1sh-s mouth.
* cannot tell you
Ho long it ill ta$e
To reel it in.
6ost 1ght
)ome do not.
*n the end
All come into my net.
# Wu Hsin
)hados or$ing on shados)ee$ing to comprehend the
*nconcei&able immensity that is
What#*s.
Better it ould be to
)imply en8oy oneself
Doing hat one is mo&ed to do.
# Wu Hsin
*f heat and cold
/omprise temperature and Tall and short together
/omprise height
Do sub8ect and ob8ect comprise
The sum of life
The percei&er and the percei&ed!
# Wu Hsin
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)uppression is a lac$ of acceptance
An attempt to nullify hat is natural.
The treatment of symptoms
Does not cure the disease.
9+ects &anish hen
/auses are remo&ed4ot hen they are suppressed.
# Wu Hsin
The deep secret is that
ou are beyond time
Beyond the hea&ens.
ou contact each at to points:
Here and 4o.
Wu Hsin $nos this
ou do not.
As such you see yourself
As separate from the Totality
When in fact
ou are the &ery Totality
ou feel separate from.
/hange your &iepoint and
/hange the orld.
?ust as the eye
/annot see itself
The mind
/annot $no itself.As such all $noing
6ust spring from that hich is &aster.
# Wu Hsin
To dig a hole
"ne employs a sho&el.
When the hole is completed
The grip on the sho&el is released.
*n order to teach
/oncepts must be used."nce the teaching is assimilated
The grip on the concept must be released.
# Wu Hsin
When the need for action
'eaches an appropriate crescendo
Action occurs.
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This is the nature of
The orld.
The one ho
(erforms the action is only
The instrument of action
4othing more.
# Wu Hsin
The only isdom
"ne can acquire here is
The full apperception of
Who is the acquirer.
All else is li$e
As$ing an unmarried man if
He has stopped
Beating his ife.
# Wu Hsin
The sum of a past is
* as.
The sum of a future is
* ill be.
The continuous crossing bac$ and forth
Beteen the to
"bscures the present moment
The * am
Being *tself.
# Wu Hsin
The empty cup
Has emptiness inside.
Wu Hsin as$s:
What happens to the emptiness
When the cup is smashed!
# Wu Hsin
The daning of a illingness To accept the unacceptable.
(roduces the cessation of orry.
*n a orld ithout orry
The empty man is an emperor.
# Wu Hsin
ou ha&e an image of
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What this outcome should be.
* say to you:
Drop it.
There is no standard
4o bellether
By hich to measure. The appearance is of
4o importance.
All that can be said is
ou ill recogni=e the unity
(rior to all appearance.
# Wu Hsin
To gro is necessary.
To outgro is li$eise
4ecessary.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin does not spea$
*n hypotheses.
*t is the direct experience
"f What#*s that is con&eyed.
The fact that
Words and concepts are
The pointers to this are
The inherent limitation
*n all communication.
# Wu Hsin
All emotions come and go
ou remain.
# Wu Hsin
our sac$ of concepts
/ompels you
To see things
*n a prescribed manner.Dropping this sac$
Allos your eyes to open and
%or clarity to manifest.
# Wu Hsin
All your goodness
All your years of practice
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All the prayers you ha&e spo$en
6ean little to Wu Hsin.
*nstead tell me if
ou are prepared to relinquish
The control that you exercise
"n e&ery aspect of your life!Are you no ready
To enter into the
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What is it that sees my $nee
When * ga=e upon my lap!
# Wu Hsin
What is the orld!
The orld is the sum of the $non9mbraced by the fullness of
The un$non and
(rotected by that hich is
5n$noable.
# Wu Hsin
When the mind feasts
True $noledge is lost.
When the mind eats not
True $noledge manifests.
# Wu Hsin
The experience of
The 6ystery is the banter of fools.
"nly ob8ects
"&ert or subtle are experienced
While the 6ystery is prior
To all ob8ects.
# Wu Hsin
ou are a sinner ou are a saint.
ou are a murderer and
ou are a mon$.
The entire orld that
ou experience is
*nside yourself.
To 1x the problems of
The orld
ou need only
%ix yourself.
# Wu Hsin
Where is the line
"f demarcation
That separates hea&en
%rom this life!
/an you sho it to me!
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Does it exist at all anyhere
Aside from inside your head!
# Wu Hsin
Do not come to Wu Hsin
)o that your questions may be ansered.Do so in order that
our ansers may be questioned.
# Wu Hsin
All that is required
*s 5nderstanding.
4ot an understanding of things but
An 5nderstanding of
The (otential of All (ossibilities
That is prior to things.
5nderstand this and
ou understand all.
# Wu Hsin
ou came to this life
With your on unique nature.
*t as combined ith
The experiences you had
To forge ho you are.
ou had no say in the matter.
ou are a one#of#a#$ind instrument(erforming the or$ that
"nly you can
*n the ser&ice of That hich
)ent you.
# Wu Hsin
What can you really
/laim to be yours
When it can be ta$en
*n the time it ta$es To snap a 1nger
By the "ne ho
0a&e it to you!
# Wu Hsin
6y father is
This#4o#Here7
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6y mother is
This#4o#Here7
6y brother is
This#4o#Here7
6y neighbor is
This#4o#Here7All related.
When each is gone
What endures!
This#4o#Here.
Thoughts are only
(u+s of smo$e
'ising from the chimney of the mind.
Attaching attention to them is
The heart of su+ering.
# Wu Hsin
What one really is
*s hat one is
*n the absence of
The ho that
"ne thin$s one is.
# Wu Hsin
There is no requirement to
Transcend the past.
All that must be done is to)top carrying it
3i$e a bloc$ of stone
"n one-s bac$.
# Wu Hsin
6an is ensnared
*n the continuum called (ast#%uture.
His attention remains 1xated there
5ninterrupted.
To free oneself from the trap9&en for a single instant
'eturn to the point of presence
"f being.
"f being no thing in particular.
*n this moment.
Then miraculously
The snare dissol&es.
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# Wu Hsin
Do not mista$e
A mere rearranging of the furniture
%or true change.
# Wu Hsin
Thin$ing creates more problems
Than it sol&es.
# Wu Hsin
Do not loo$ for *t
*n mo&ing ater.
6o&ing ater distorts.
3oo$ for *t
*n still ater.
)till ater re
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The doing ta$es care of itself
Without any intended doing and
*n the absence of a doer.
# Wu Hsin
What is it That brings people to
The doorstep of Wu Hsin!
*t is simply the desire
To $no this What.
When Wu Hsin says
This What cannot be $non
6ost go aay disappointed.
# Wu Hsin
* tell you:
ou must open the doors.
ou must pull bac$
The shutters.
Ho else can light enter into
A dar$ened house!
# Wu Hsin
Why 1ght ith
9xternal foes!
our neighbors are
The &ery least of our problems.
# Wu Hsin
This is Wu Hsin-s open secret:
The only e&il is inattention.
*t is the father of stupidity and
The grandfather of the tins
)u+ering and sorro.
# Wu Hsin*t is not possible to hurt another
"nce one understands that
All anothers are inside oneself and
9merge from there.
# Wu Hsin
,noledge ill ta$e you
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To the goal.
But not $noledge
"f things.
,noledge of things ill
Distance you from the goal.
Wu Hsin tells you to/all o+ your search.
# Wu Hsin
%olloers of the sun
4e&er $no dar$ness.
# Wu Hsin
The 6ystery is not reached ith ords.
4or can the mind reach *t.
5nseen
5nheard
*t cannot be taught.
What remains is the experiencing
Without an experiencer.
# Wu Hsin
The man of contentment
)ee$s nothing that
He doesn-t ha&e and
5nderstands that
Whate&er he has*sn-t his to on.
# Wu Hsin
To li&e and to die
*s natural.
To be afraid
To li&e and to die is not.
# Wu Hsin
*f man spent as much Time and energy
Demolishing his prison
As as spent in building it
All ould be free.
# Wu Hsin
ou are not the main character
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*n the play.
ou are one of many characters.
9ach has a role to play.
This reali=ation is
The 1rst step toard
The unity that is alays as andAlays ill be.
# Wu Hsin
)o many things you could
0i&e up and
)till not achie&e clarity.
*nstead
)imply gi&e up your notions
"f * me and mine and
Allo stillness to carry you forard.
# Wu Hsin
%orms through hich action occurs
Be it plant insect tiger or human
Beha&e according to their nature.
5nderstand 4ature and
5nderstand all.
# Wu Hsin
The fundamental question is:
Do you ha&e aareness orDoes Aareness ha&e you!
# Wu Hsin
The orld cannot impro&e until
The peoples of the orld impro&e.
The peoples of the orld cannot impro&e until
The person impro&es.
The person cannot impro&e until
All self interest is remo&ed.
# Wu Hsin
The particular and the uni&ersal are not separate.
They are merely to aspects of
The indi&isible7
"ne &ieed from ithin
The other from ithout.
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# Wu Hsin
The desire for understanding
Arises from misunderstanding.
The ay out is through
Questioning and examining the habitual.
# Wu Hsin
The animating presence is
The building bloc$ upon hich
ou ha&e been erected.
9&en after you ha&e been torn don
The building bloc$ remains.
/entering your attention there is
The direct means to gain
(rimordial insight.
# Wu Hsin
What#*s or
ou may call it the Truth
6ust be appercei&ed.
"nce one attempts to express it
*t becomes a concept and
%ood for discussion.
Then the Truth is lost.
)ee$ers of Truth must as$:What distinguishing mar$s ill
Allo one to recogni=e it!
# Wu Hsin
What does the orange tree
Ha&e to do
To gro oranges!
What does the s$y
Ha&e to do
To be blue!What do you
Ha&e to do
To be!
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin ta$es many
To the ri&er but
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/rosses it for none.
# Wu Hsin
5nhappiness comes to man
Through to doorays
The 1rst dooray is named4ot getting hat you ant.
The name of the second dooray is
0etting hat you ant.
9ither ta$es you there7
The former faster
Than the latter.
The former teaches
The futility of illfulness.
The latter teaches the foolishness
"f belie&ing that
)atisfaction and happiness are the same.
# Wu Hsin
When is there to li&e
"ther than no!
Ho is there to li&e
"ther than no!
Why is there to li&e
"ther than no!
Where is there to li&e
"ther than no!
# Wu Hsin
Desire is presupposed on the belief that
The desired ill con&ey
)ome lasting bene1t
To the one ho desires.
When this is appercei&ed to be false
The running after
(ersons or things ends and
*mpartiality to all that comes and goes Ta$es root.
# Wu Hsin
5nderneath is the support.
*t is the ater
To the boat and
The s$y
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To the cloud.
The $non is supported by
The un$non hich in turn is
Held by the 5n$noable.
*gnoring this is
The folly of men.
# Wu Hsin
9&erything mo&es toard
*ts on destruction.
The
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4or should you
Be enamored ith it.
As$ Wu Hsin to be quiet
This has much more &alue.
A &iable strategy is to bring about
The end of the questioner.When there is no questioner
Then there is no one
Being questioned and
There are no questions.
Within this space
All can be re&ealed
6ost easily.
# Wu Hsin
There is a birth
A life and then
A death.
Throughout this cycle of
%rom the )ource # To the )ource
The )ource remains e&er as it as.
To $no the )ource is to
Transcend the cycle.
# Wu Hsin
This game being played is
A subtle one7*t begins ith the mind
Ta$ing What#*s and
(arsing it into
6illions of pieces.
The balance of the game
The balance of life is
)pent trying to
(ut it bac$ together.
# Wu Hsin/lear seeing is elusi&e
3i$e trying to capture ater
With a net.
The particular net employed is
The belief in the poer of
The thin$ing mind.
%or as long as this mind is orshipped
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/lear sight is not to be obtained.
*t is little onder that
The dog chasing its tail
Becomes di==y.
# Wu Hsin ou are not satis1ed
With the ansers
0i&en by others.
)o you come to Wu Hsin.
But hat you really see$
Are not ansers
But con1rmation
"f hat you thin$
ou already $no.
*f you ere to admit
That you $no nothing
Then * ill most gladly anser.
# Wu Hsin
9ssence is the si=e of the s$y.
*t holds the body and
The mind as if they ere
'ose petals in its hands.
# Wu Hsin
The meditation of su+ering is The meditation of:
* am this body
* am this story
* am these thoughts and
* am these emotions.
The meditation of freedom is
The meditation that lac$s
A meditator.
# Wu HsinAll acti&ity to hold on to
That hich is
*nherently impermanent is futile and is
The prerequisite for unhappiness.
'eleasing all attachment to
The impermanent
Brings ith it the re&elation of
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The face of
The (ermanent and is
The harbinger of peace.
# Wu Hsin
Thin$ing is so tiresome'equiring so much energy
)olely for the purpose
"f reinforcing the notion
"f a thin$er.
What a aste2
)top thin$ing and
6erely atch
9&erything being done
Without your interference.
# Wu Hsin
The marriage of
%ull consciousness ith
3ife
*s the most beautiful union
This orld has e&er $non.
# Wu Hsin
ou don-t $no hat is good.
ou only $no
What is good for you. Tomorro that might change.
Then good ill become bad and
ou ill claim to $no it.
All this hoe&er is relati&e.
What is good for you
6ight be bad for me.
What is good for you today
6ight be bad for you tomorro.
Wouldn-t it be better
To lea&e the 8udging To the fools!
# Wu Hsin
Do not use
Wu Hsin-s ords
As a platform for
3aunching ne concepts.
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*nstead listen deeply
Appercei&e and then
%orget.
Do not store the ords aay.
3et them penetrate you
As ould an arro.
# Wu Hsin
The arri&al of hat is absent is
(reconditioned on
The departure of
What is present.
)o long as
The inn is full
4o rooms are a&ailable.
# Wu Hsin
* ill not tell you
What it loo$s li$e
Because then
ou ill assume that
ou $no
What you are loo$ing for.
ou cannot $no it
ou can only
Be it and This being is ithout cause.
)o hat is left
%or you to do!
# Wu Hsin
Whate&er is embraced
Whate&er is clung to ill lea&e.
Why then empoer it
By ma$ing it important!
# Wu Hsin
When ri&er ater is
(laced in a 8ar
Does its quality change!
The container is irrele&ant.
The attention must remain upon
What is of essence.
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# Wu Hsin
To 1xate on hat is not
The past the future
The ay things ought to be
*nherently creates struggle ith What#*s.)ee this and step out of it.
# Wu Hsin
What is natural
'equires no study or practice for mastery.
Does one study ho to sleep!
To reach hat is natural
6erely remo&e hat is not natural.
# Wu Hsin
"ne must either be content ith
"ne-s indi&idual accomplishments or
"ne must brea$ free from
The notion of indi&iduality.
# Wu Hsin
Why do you o+er
)uch resistance to life!
Has not Wu Hsin told you
That resistance"nly extends and intensi1es
our pain and discomfort.
There is a secret ord
Which hen used
With sincerity
Aligns you ith all of life.
That ord is
es.
# Wu HsinHope requires the future
%aith dips into the past
Trust that all is as it should be
*n the present moment.
# Wu Hsin
3oo$ deeply inside yourself and
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Try to 1nd yourself.
The ensuing failure is
The true 1nding.
# Wu Hsin
Do not spea$ to Wu Hsin of our godhead experiences.
All experience is dualistic
'equiring a sub8ect and an ob8ect.
*s your godhead an ob8ect
To be experienced!
# Wu Hsin
What could be more meaningless
Than to say that
What you are loo$ing at
*s the one ho is loo$ing!
Hoe&er nothing is closer to the
(rimordial ay of things than this.
Do you onder then
Why Wu Hsin is laughing!
# Wu Hsin
The antagonism toard the orld
Toard people
(laces and
Things*s the impediment
To the reali=ation
"f the peace that
5nderlies it all.
9&ery 4o $eeps peace
An arm-s length aay.
# Wu Hsin
Ho many of your questions
Ha&e been anseredBut still
ou don-t ha&e the anser!
*s it possible that
The anser isn-t
%ound in more questions!
*s it possible that
The anser isn-t
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%ound in more concepts
6ore thoughts!
*s it possible that
The anser is
'e&ealed in their &ery absence!
# Wu Hsin
The number of forms
Within this manifestation is
Without limit.
%ocusing the attention on
This limitlessness
*t is easy to become lost.
The ay bac$ is
The ay out.
'eturn the attention to
That from hich
The limitlessness arose.
# Wu Hsin
%or the orld to change is
(reconditioned on
The acceptance of What#*s.
"nce accepted there is no need
%or the orld to change.
# Wu HsinHo glorious is
The purposeless life.
9&ents occur in
Their natural course and
"ne need not do anything or
Be anything in particular.
/an there be
A greater freedom than this!
# Wu Hsin/hasing after more and more is futile.
*t is only less and less that lastingly satis1es.
# Wu Hsin
*n an instant
There is aa$ening and
The orld arri&es
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5nbec$oned.
*n a short time
*t recedes and is
%orgotten until
*ts next arising.
5nderstanding the stage on hich This play is performed is
The ay out of it.
# Wu Hsin
)ilence is the bridge beteen
The %ormless and
The orld of form.
# Wu Hsin
Ho can light 1nd dar$ness!
Dar$ness is merely
The absence of light.
Ho can one 1nd one-s source!
"ne-s source is re&ealed in
The absence of one-s self.
# Wu Hsin
Beyond hat!
Beyond here!
Beyond hen!
Beyond hom! This beyond
*s not outside yourself
But is the &ast
3imitless expanse
Within.
*t is not $noable
4or does it reside
Within the space of the $non.
)top running toard
(ositi&e states.)top running from
4egati&e states.
)top.
Ta$e hate&er comes
As it comes7
Without 8udgment
Without embellishment.
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Then atch it pass until
Whate&er is to be
4ext appears.
# Wu Hsin
The greatest crime is The o&erloo$ing of
Who you really are
*n fa&or of
The story of
Who you thin$ you are.
This preoccupation ith
our personal drama is
The cloud that mas$s
The sun.
# Wu Hsin
* am sorry
To disappoint you.
But Wu Hsin has no teaching
%or you.
4o method
4o ay
4o system.
)imply be as you are and
All ill be right.
# Wu Hsin
Turning the attention
Toard the unfamiliar and
Aay from the familiar is a
(rerequisite to the arri&al at
True understanding.
# Wu Hsin
Do not accept
Any of the ords of Wu HsinAs the truth.
*n&estigate for yourself.
This illingness to in&estigate
To deeply inquire into
6y ords into
our assumptions is
The front door to
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The house of illumination.
# Wu Hsin
our hope
%or the future is that it ill
Bring sal&ationA completion or
A satisfactory conclusion to
our unsatisfactory past and
The unsatisfactory present.
Wu Hsin tells you that
ou are mista$en.
# Wu Hsin
*t has ta$en considerable time
%or your illusions
To be built up.
et it ta$es no time at all
To dissol&e them
To replace them
With simplicity in and
Acceptance of
3ife.
# Wu Hsin
When a ater bubble
"n the ocean bursts*t returns to the ocean.
This is death7
All deaths.
our death and my death.
'eturning to the )ource
What is there to fear!
# Wu Hsin
9xpectation is the grandfather of
Disappointment. The orld can ne&er
"n a man
Who ants nothing.
# Wu Hsin
)o many aspirants
)ee$ing understanding from
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6agicians
6editators
'epresentati&es of hearsay
*ntellectuals and
World renouncers.
Who amongst these can re&eal The shado of the %ormless!
# Wu Hsin
The body is charged ith
3ife %orce 9nergy and
)ustained by food.
Where is the role of an indi&idual in this!
*t progresses through life
'eacting to people places and e&ents
*n a manner
)peci1c to its nature.
Where is the role of any indi&idual
*n determining this!
Wu Hsin ants to $no:
What causes the belief that
ou are an indi&idual!
# Wu Hsin
When a gale blos from the east
Wal$ to the est.
When a gale blos from the estWal$ to the east.
Acceptance of the hard and the soft is
The foundation of trust that
All is right.
# Wu Hsin
The ad&ersarial relationship
With life is the prison.
Acceptance of life as it comes
Day by day6oment by moment is
The $ey to the loc$ on the door.
# Wu Hsin
6aturity e&ol&es upon
The reali=ation that
our numerous strategies
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%or escaping
Ha&e failed you.
6aturity brings ith it
The dan of understanding of
What it is you are trying
To escape from.6aturity prompts the examination of
Whether you are really imprisoned at all.
# Wu Hsin
6a$e no e+ort to meditate
6a$e no e+ort to not meditate
6a$e no e+ort to ma$e no e+ort
Being is not something
"ne does
Being is hat
"ne is.
# Wu Hsin
Don-t come here so that Wu Hsin may
(rescribe a path for you.
/hoose the path
"f your inclination
'egardless of appearances
"r opinion.All paths meet
At the "ne (ath hich goes beyond
All paths.
# Wu Hsin
The necessity to delineate
'ight from rong
Truth from not#truth
*s itself the impediment.
The truths of men are 1niteWith many nuances.
(rimordial Truth
Has in1nite expressions
While remo&ing all need
%or interpretation.
# Wu Hsin
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(rior to the realities of man
There is an 5ltimate 'eality.
6any ha&e sought to spea$
*ts language but
*n the end
They became ruledBy dogma and ritual.
# Wu Hsin
9&ery form re
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)ome ere large and
"thers ere small.
When his clothes caught on 1re
4one mattered any longer.
# Wu HsinA bone ith no meat is better
Than no bone at all
To a beggar.
The ords of Wu Hsin are
All meat and no bone.
Who is hungry for this!
# Wu Hsin
All necessary or$ is accomplished
Without acti&ely thin$ing.
That hich mo&es Wu Hsin
(ro&ides all his ords.
Thoughtless
Wu Hsin cannot be rong.
# Wu Hsin
Do not di&ide
Do not label or categori=e.
'ather than seeing the many
Within the "ne
)ee the "ne*nherent in the many.
# Wu Hsin
*f one focuses exclusi&ely on
Dissatisfaction
The cause of dissatisfaction and
The end of dissatisfaction
9&erything resol&es itself in ease.
Don-t pretend to be
What you are not7Don-t refuse to be
What you are.
# Wu Hsin
*f one sa oneself as
The entire orld
"ne could do no harm.
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Why see oneself as only
Hands
%eet
Torso
Thoughts and feelings!
This is a falsehood.
# Wu Hsin
9&ery e+ort
Births more e+ort.
What has been built
6ust be maintained.
What as acquired
6ust be protected against loss.
# Wu Hsin
)eeing clearly is
4ot mista$ing imagination
%or reality.
A life seen clearly is
A life ithout con
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Before it.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin-s moti&ation is
9asy to understand.
*t is the same as The bird-s moti&ation
To sing.
# Wu Hsin
*n the instant of action
There is no actor.
*t is only afterard that
The ego
This false identity
Appropriates the action as mine.
# Wu Hsin
When the mind is seen as
/ontinually $idnapped by thoughts
The 1rst step toard freedom
Has been ta$en.
4o cease listening to
What is being heard.
*nstead listen to
What is listening.
# Wu Hsin
'elinquish the 1xation
"n beginnings and endings
"n past and future.
All that matters is
This#4o#Here.
"nce lost
*t cannot be reco&ered.
# Wu Hsin%our questions:
Ho many more failed strategies
Will you underta$e
To gain hat you ant!
What do you ant!
What ill getting hat you ant
0i&e you!
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Who ants to $no this!
# Wu Hsin
9&erything comes and goes.
That hich ga&e them birth
)ustained themAnd called them bac$
0oes by many names.
Wu Hsin prefers Being
Among the list.
# Wu Hsin
Beginning and end
Are not to
But equal aspects
"f one.
The fruit contains
The seed
Which contains the fruit.
# Wu Hsin
The greatest ealth is contentment.
The greatest happiness is
%reedom from opinions.
The greatest peace is attained
Through the abandonment of desires.
# Wu Hsin
*f one desires clear sight
"ne cannot place one-s trust in re
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Wu Hsin says he cannot help7
The search must fail because
All searching is for some thing and
This )ought is no thing.
*f it is not an ob8ect
Ho may it be found!
# Wu Hsin
%rom the point of &ie of
The person
(roblems ne&er cease.
%rom the point of &ie of
The Totality
(roblems ne&er arise.
(erfection is disturbed by
The arri&al of 8udgment.
# Wu Hsin
?ust sitting7
Without a goal
Without a schedule
Without an intention
Without form and
Without deliberateness.
The seed opens into the fruit.
?ust sitting.
# Wu Hsin
There are some ho
'etire to the forests and mountaintops
To a&oid in&ol&ement ith
The orld.
et the inner in&ol&ement continues.
9&ery thought
/ries out for in&ol&ement.
This is the in&ol&ement from hich
'etirement is to be sought.
# Wu Hsin
To conquer the large
Begin ith the small.
To change your orld
Begin by changing yourself.
What needs to be changed!
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"nly the point of &ie.
# Wu Hsin
The calligrapher begins ith
White parchment7
4othingness.%rom there
All emergence is possible.
# Wu Hsin
*n the presence of fuel
The oil lamp generates
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# Wu Hsin
ou are a microcosm
"f the cosmos.
our body is comprised of
All the elements
"f the orld. The cosmos has donated itself
To ma$e you.
The day ill come
When she ill request a refund.
0rant it smilingly.
# Wu Hsin
Do not mista$e birth
%or beginning.
3i$eise
Death is not
An ending.
(rior to birth is
9xistence ithout limit.
This is the quality
That is mas$ed
By incarnation.
'emo&e the mas$ and
'emo&e the bindings.
# Wu Hsin9mergence is
The reali=ation of
(otentiality.
Things appear
)tay and ultimately depart.
# Wu Hsin
0race appears
*n the orld
3i$e a giant cloud(ouring refreshment
"n the parched and
"n the thirsty.
The closed ones
%ail to parta$e
%ail to bene1t
Because they are
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"therise engaged.
# Wu Hsin
Will adding copper to gold
*mpro&e it!
What is inherent in each4eeds no impro&ement.
What is not inherent is not
Worthy of attention.
# Wu Hsin
What comes
Will go.
"nly the permanent is beyond
/oming and going.
Ho much time is left
"ne minute or 1fty years!
Why squander it on
The transient!
# Wu Hsin
3iberation does not occur
To any thing in the outer.
*t is an inner experience of
%reedom from attachments to the outer.
The saint in prison is free
The emperor is bound.
# Wu Hsin
)a&e your time.
Do not come to Wu Hsin.
What you see$
*s belo7
*t is abo&e.
*t is behind you and
*n front of you.
To the north)outh
9ast and
West.
# Wu Hsin
%ollo Wu Hsin
*f you can.
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* follo the path
3eft behind by birds
*n
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/reation stories are for children.
The orld is created in
9&ery ne moment.
)tand aside and simply mar&el.
# Wu Hsin)ingular holeness is alays the same.
*t is unchanging.
That hich changes may appear on it.
*t is unchanging.
# Wu Hsin
Where is the obser&ed
*n the absence of
The obser&er!
*f the obser&ed ob8ect requires
A sub8ecti&e obser&er
*s not this sub8ecti&e obser&er
Also an ob8ect!
Where then is
The true )ub8ect!
)ince the true )ub8ect
*s not an ob8ect
The true )ub8ect
/annot be found and
The notion of here
3oses all meaning.
# Wu Hsin
This mystery ful1lls all its functions unceasingly
9&en though it appears to be
)ilent and unmo&ing.
*t is the 1eld upon hich
The $noer and that hich is $non meet.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin is not di+erent from you9xcept that he ons feer things
"ns feer opinions
"ns feer concepts
"ns feer thoughts.
# Wu Hsin
'eneal requires destruction.
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The old must be torn don before
The ne can be erected.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin is so full that
4othing can be added.Wu Hsin is so empty that
4othing can be remo&ed.
The outer orld of perceptions
The inner orld of thoughts
Wu Hsin is neither yet
The $noer of both.
# Wu Hsin
4othing succeeds li$e failure.
%ailure is a natural
/all for attention
3i$e pain.
To pay attention is to
)tep out of your trance.
# Wu Hsin
To free the chic$
The shell must be bro$en.
To free hat is inside
"ne must shatter
What is outside.
# Wu Hsin
The $ey to understanding is
The dissolution of
The barriers beteen
)ub8ect and ob8ect
,noer and $non and
)eer and seen.
*n this condition
"ne cannot locate The mar$ers of separation.
# Wu Hsin
What is $non is familiar
et unsatisfying.
What is un$non is feared
et desired
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3ife thri&es in ris$s and
Dies in stasis.
3i&e.
# Wu Hsin
The 6aster is not the goal%ixation on the 6aster
*mpedes reaching the goal
'eleasing the 6aster
'eleasing all ideations
About the goal
Ta$es one a long ay
Toard the goal.
# Wu Hsin
To destroy the ego
"ne must 1rst 1nd it.
# Wu Hsin
The bell rings then
The sound ends.
Hearing aaits.
The fruit is seet
4o the taste is gone.
Tasting remains.
Belie&ing oneself to be
What comes and goes isHigh folly.
# Wu Hsin
6en are so entranced by
The tree
That they ha&e forgotten
The seed
The source of the tree.
%orgetting the source is hat
,eeps men from The source.
# Wu Hsin
Ho much time does it ta$e
To appercei&e conditions as they are!
*t ta$es much less time than
ou ha&e and
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6uch less time than
ou-re illing to allocate.
By no it could be completed
*f only you could relinquish
our stranglehold on appearances.
# Wu Hsin
When there is hunger and
%ood is pro&ided
Does one say that the mouth has
/ompassion for the stomach!
When there are no others
There is no compassion.
# Wu Hsin
What is a name!
What is a form!
Are they not the symbols
"f someone ho
'egards himself as separate!
The name@.
*s it not merely
The name of an ego!
But the 4ameless has no name.
Wu Hsin as$s:
;Where does one end
And the other begin!;
# Wu Hsin
The heel of becoming
)pins unceasingly.
Becoming this
Becoming that@@@@.
When one steps o+ of the heel
What has alays been
What need ne&er become is illuminated.
# Wu Hsin
All the strategies you use
To protect yourself are actually
The chains that
,eep you bound.
To be free of the orld
ou must be free of yourself.
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The fear that is experienced
When you consider
What must be done is merely
These strategies 1ghting
%or their sur&i&al.
*gnore hat you hear*gnore hat you may tell yourself and
Trust that hich
Wu Hsin tells you is
The ay out.
# Wu Hsin
This morning
* ta$e my pen in hand
To rite
But ho or hat
*s it that rites!
*s it the pen!
*s it Wu Hsin!
*s it both
"r neither!
Wu Hsin mo&es the pen
But hat is it
That mo&es Wu Hsin!
# Wu Hsin
The orld changes profoundlyWhen demands on it cease.
The real orld and one-s imagined orld
)hare little.
# Wu Hsin
'idding oneself of ignorance is
Worth more than the acquisition of $noledge.
With memory gone
The past is gone
'elinquishing hopes and fears The future is gone.
The present is upon you.
*n e&ery moment.
ou are free.
# Wu Hsin
6y friends come to me
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And spea$ of acquiring merit
Through good deeds
Wu Hsin as$s ;Why!;
They tell me
*t is the ay to Hea&en.
et hen Wu Hsin as$s;What is it that goes to Hea&en!;
All fall silent.
# Wu Hsin
What needs to be re&ealed
'e&eals itself by itself.
4o coaxing no persuasion
4o e+ort at all is required.
*t shines by itself and
4eeds no illumination from the outside.
# Wu Hsin
4o mountain has only one side.
At times it is sunny on one side and
'aining on the other.
The side that has seen the sun
Will experience the rain.
# Wu Hsin
A comfortable bed does not
3essen the discomfort of A nightmare.
This is only achie&ed by
Wa$ing up from the nightmare.
# Wu Hsin
(ut the time attention and energy
That you use trying to get
What you thin$ you ant
To better use.
0etting hat you thought you antedHas ne&er brought you
3asting happiness.
*nstead use the time attention and energy to
'eali=e the fullness that is
9&er present and
All around you.
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# Wu Hsin
Who dies
When the body dies!
What dies!
*n this inquiry
The sun burns aay the fog and The mists lift.
# Wu Hsin
To ha&e no thought and
To ma$e no e+ort is
The 1rst step toard 5nderstanding.
The second step is
To go nohere and
To do nothing.
5pon completion of these
'esting for a hile is ad&ised.
# Wu Hsin
9ach being is a moment in time
With a name and
A form and
A script
To be performed
*n this play called
3ife.
4one chose the name4or the form
4or the script
et each belie&es himself to be
The master of his destiny.
"nce their sight clears
They too ill laugh.
# Wu Hsin
Aa$ening occurs
4ot hen there is no more To be added
But instead
When there is no more
To be ta$en aay.
# Wu Hsin
* am a shado
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Behind the head
Allos for the clear perception that
"ne is not separate from manifestation
But rather a part of it.
The space that 1lls the small pot is
The same as the space That 1lls the large pot.
# Wu Hsin
A ripple appeared on the la$e in 0uang=hou.
6ost ho sa it
Became interested in the ripple and
%orgot about the la$e.
The orld has many distractions
*ts bac$ground has none.
# Wu Hsin
"&er the parched earth
'ain clouds appear.
et one cannot
6a$e it rain.
The ingredient that must be added is
Waiting.
To ait in the face of urgency
*s to understand that
All is as it is intended.
# Wu Hsin
"ne-s god cannot be reached
Through a beggar-s bol.
As$ing for the ful1llment of ants
%or the orld-s acquiescence
To one-s ill
*nsults the &ery deity
That is prayed to
By re&ealing that
Trust in this god is absent.
# Wu Hsin
*llusion holds enormous poer
5ntil its reality is in&estigated
The greatest illusion is that
There is a line
"f demarcation separating
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6e and you.
# Wu Hsin
%lirting ith time is
A losing game.
*n the end Time eats e&erything except
The timeless.
# Wu Hsin
6an li&es through his 1ctions.
He acts as if
He ill not die.
He acts as if
There are gods that
'eard and punish.
He acts as if
He controls his life
/ontrols his destiny.
*t need not be otherise7
The next moment ill
Ta$e care of itself.
)ubstance is immanent in
9&ery shado.
This is the gate ithout a gate that
"ne must pass through
To attain understanding.
# Wu Hsin
Are you illing to ris$
9&erything to be
Totally and utterly exposed!
Are you illing to see
Ho you defraud.
Demean and tri&iali=e
The totality of your being
By relegating it to This psychosomatic de&ice
/alled you!
"r ould you rather
Be 1shing!
The ability to discriminate
Beteen hat appears to be and
What#*s is
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The mar$ of the ise.
They reside at the hub
"f the heel
While others
'e&ol&e around the rim.
# Wu Hsin
*n&ol&ement is the
%ather of happiness and the
6other of sorro.
*n the absence of in&ol&ement
The pendulum stops singing and
(eace and balance pre&ail.
# Wu Hsin
Being clean is
*ts on reard.
*t is the same ith
Being free from
That hich is false.
# Wu Hsin
As long as you are
A doer
Whether doing or not doing
Thin$ing or not thin$ing
6editating or not meditating This you is
4o closer to home
Than it as
"n the day
*t left home.
# Wu Hsin
our mind-s problems are not
our problems.
Why get in&ol&ed!)eeing the false as false is enough.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin is li$e hite paper
Before it is touched
By the pen.
"nce the stro$es are put don
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The hite paper is ignored.
# Wu Hsin
/an e agree that
6adness is little more than
The searching outside for hat/an only be found ithin!
To change the face in the mirror
"ne doesn-t change the mirror.
# Wu Hsin
)eeing requires to components:
The seer and
That hich is seen.
*n the absence of a seer
4othing is seen.
When there is nothing to be seen
There is no seer.
As the seer and the seen are
*nterdependent
)o is all of this play called
3ife.
# Wu Hsin
The recognition of hat one is not
0oes a long ay toard illuminating
What one is.
# Wu Hsin
What comes and goes is
6erely an appearance.
That hich percei&es all
/omings and goings is
The only substance.
Drin$ing this elixir
3ife is recogni=ed to be eternal.
# Wu Hsin
)taying sacred isn-t dicult.
*ts sole requirement is
The remo&al of one-s lips
%rom the mouth of the profane.
Then sacredness blossoms li$e
%loers in the )pring.
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# Wu Hsin
The relinquishing of all searching
Allos the immobility to arise
That re&eals
That there is no becoming7All already is.
# Wu Hsin
The orld may be di&ided into
Three parts:
The $non
The un$non and
The 5n$noable.
*t is to the last that
"ne must go
)o that you may recei&e
What you are after.
# Wu Hsin
The loss of habitual certainties is
The gain of clear &ision.
The common man loo$s at things
5ncommon man sees through them.
# Wu Hsin
5pon the arri&al of The great death
All concerns for
The lesser death
Disappear.
)omebody becomes
4o body in particular and
3ife goes on ithout fear.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin does not possess The pass $ey to hea&en nor
The escape route from hell.
Both are a&ailable
"n this earth and are chosen
*n e&ery moment.
# Wu Hsin
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9&erything can be seen in daylight
9xcept daylight.
# Wu Hsin
The play is
An illusion7 The stage is not.
*n the absence of
A distinct seer and
A distinct seen
All that remains is
The seeing.
# Wu Hsin
9&ery being is
An ob8ect
To e&ery other being
Which considers itself to be
The sub8ecti&e.
This misunderstanding explains
The reason men belie&e
They can act in a manner
That is counter to hat is natural.
But this is only a belief and
Wu Hsin tells you that
6ost of hat you belie&e is rong.
# Wu Hsin
The neborn 1sh does not
3earn to sim.
*t sims.
The simming arises from
The natural state of things.
Abiding in hat is natural
"ne cannot ma$e mista$es.
# Wu HsinA common error is to belie&e that
The 9ternal ill re&eal *tself to you
"n your terms in your time and
*n your ay.
Thro aay all notions and
)imply be illing
To see.
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# Wu Hsin
Doing or not doing7
(ic$ either
"nly do not attach &alue to
The outcome of either.*n this manner
The
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Daily rode in his horse#dran cart.
Although it too$ him
Where&er he anted to go
He ne&er mistoo$
His cart for himself.
# Wu Hsin
When the specialness is relinquished
All is ell and natural.
When the gold nec$lace is melted don
*s it not still gold!
# Wu Hsin
4ames and forms
The content of perception
/omprise the orld.
The orld exists
Because one exists.
But one is not the orld
"nly its $noer.
The proof is that
The arising of the $noer
(recedes the arising of the orld.
# Wu Hsin
The same poer that is
(loing the 1elds is/utting the &egetables and
6o&ing the ind.
*t resides in e&ery thing to
The special bene1t of none.
# Wu Hsin
(lace your ear into the
Heart of Wu Hsin.
Hear the ords
Before they are spo$en.Absorb them directly by
Bypassing the mind.
This is the most direct means.
# Wu Hsin
The notion that human life
Has greater &alue
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Than any other form of life is
The greatest demonstration of arrogance.
# Wu Hsin
The harder the ood
The hotter the
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With it you are e&erything
Without it
What are you!
# Wu Hsin
Do not plan to ma$e changes.*f change is required
*t ill arri&e
*n its on time.
Wait and atch.
# Wu Hsin
9&ery scene is a preparation
%or the subsequent scene.
The sum of the scenes is
3ife.
# Wu Hsin
*s pain the inter&al
Beteen to pleasurable experiences or
*s pleasure the inter&al
Beteen to painful experiences!
The absence of both
The absence of thought
This inter&al is
9&enness and tranquility.
# Wu Hsin
6an is solely an intermediary
)tanding beteen What#*s and
*ts designed outcome.
*nstruments produce actions
But ta$e no credit for results.
# Wu Hsin
*f you ant to $no the truth
ou must be able to recogni=e falsehood."nce the false is remo&ed
The true stands illuminated.
# Wu Hsin
ou see before you
This body called Wu Hsin.
But Wu Hsin is not the body.
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Wu Hsin is
The seeing
The hearing
The percei&ing
The smelling and
The tasting of all that is)een Heard
(ercei&ed
)melled and tasted.
The attention ne&er goes to stillness7
*t alays goes toard mo&ement.
The stillness
That hich is prior to mo&ement is
Therefore missed.
(ay attention and
)ee things as they really are.
What other discipline is required!
# Wu Hsin
(ersonal freedom is
4othing more than
%reedom from the personal.
As such personal freedom is
4ot a&ailable to any body.
# Wu HsinThe easiest method to remo&e
The ongoing condition of &igilance is to'emo&e the me hom
The &igilance protects.
Then &igilance dissol&es.
# Wu Hsin
De&otion to any teacher any sage
(erpetuates the illusion of
Di&ision and separation.
That hich animates the teacher
Animates all.Direct one-s de&otion to That.
# Wu Hsin
The ise man does not
4eed the people-s prayers.
The ise man is
The anser to
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The people-s prayers.
# Wu Hsin
When the tendency to
6anipulate and control
9&ery experience ceasesA ne orld arises
%illed ith a balance and a peace
(re&iously unexperienced.
# Wu HsinAscetics are e&eryhere.
They renounce shelter
Wor$
%ine clothing
)peech and
3ifestyle.
But they are self deluded.
True renunciates renounce concepts
*deas
"pinions
?udgments
Hopes
(ast and
%uture.
)ho Wu Hsin a single one of these.
# Wu Hsin
Happiness comes happiness goes.)top chasing it.
)orro comes sorro goes.
)top running from it.
'elax into hat doesn-t come and go
What is present in e&ery moment
*n e&ery here and no.
# Wu Hsin
Ho can a man be free
Who is attached to so many things!
# Wu Hsin
There are many ho practice to de&elop
Wisdom
0enerosity
(atience and
Discipline.
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*n this fashion
These are the products of the practice.
Wu Hsin notes that ith
/lear understanding
All these arise as
By#products hile4o practice is required.
# Wu Hsin
"ne see$ing transcendent isdom
9mbar$s on a 8ourney here
The mind cannot go.
*t is only in the
Absence of preconceptions that
What#*s can be re&ealed.
# Wu Hsin
There can be no obser&er
*n the absence of
An obser&ed ob8ect.
The to comprise
"ne hole.
%old oneself
*nto oneself and
)imply be
The sub8ecti&e itness of
"ne-s ob8ecti&e expression.
# Wu Hsin
All aspiration is self deception.
*t is preconditioned on
The arri&al of tomorro.
What can arri&e tomorro
/an li$eise be had in
This moment if
The &ie is right.
# Wu Hsin
The stream of mind is
A continuous
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"nce this is reali=ed
*t too is accepted.
# Wu Hsin
When the path narros.
)tand aside to allo Those rushing forard
To pass you by.
The goal is not to arri&e
The goal is to
%ully experience the 8ourney.
# Wu Hsin
The mind
The body and
The orld are not separate.
They arise together
They set together.
5pon appercei&ing this
6ethods are seen as useless.
# Wu Hsin
9&erything arises from
A single source hich
'esides in the space beteen.
*t can only be reached
Through remo&al and negation. Ta$e aay this thought
Ta$e aay that ob8ect and
What remains is
What#*s.
# Wu Hsin
*nside a cloud
The &ision is limited.
"utside the cloud
The cloud is seen."ther clouds are seen.
The sun is seen.
The s$y is seen and
The moon and the stars.
This is Wu Hsin-s in&itation:
)tep out of the cloud.
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# Wu Hsin
All goals
All getting
)er&e to only strengthen the ego.
The recognition
That there is nothing To be gained or attained
That e&erything is already
Here and no is isdom.
# Wu Hsin
3i$e ater is shaped by its container
6an is shaped by
The essences of the parents and
The experiences of life.
/ontrolling neither
"ne is hat one is.
# Wu Hsin
4e&er mind the mind.
*t is li$e pouring droplets of ater into
A hot frying pan.
# Wu Hsin
When one is struc$ by ae or onder
There is no line of separation beteen
The $noer and the $non.*n this space the orld and
9&ery act in it is spontaneous.
# Wu Hsin
'eal happiness is causeless.
Happi
ess that is caused is not real7
*t is transient.
Belie&ing that the transient
/an ta$e one to
The intransient is
)elf deception.
# Wu Hsin
All musts are false.
4o must can be spontaneous and
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"nly that hich is spontaneous is
'eal.
# Wu Hsin
The creation of distinctions
Births the cycle of pleasure and pain.When e&erything is
Accepted ith equanimity
/alm is established.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin plants a seed
*n the ground and aits for
The right season to arri&e hen
*t ill sprout and
0ro and
Become a mighty tree.
# Wu Hsin
3oo$ing through colored glass
/olors hat you see.
What $eeps you from clearly seeing
What is real is the colored glass of
The mind.
*ts preferences
*ts dramas and
*ts need to e&aluate are,eeping you from that
Which you belie&ed
Wu Hsin could pro&ide.
# Wu Hsin
All con
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Deepening of understanding.
They are a source of stimulation and
4othing more.
Adopted as regimen
They are a hindrance.
# Wu Hsin
Ho many of the seemingly earnest are
De&oting their energies to
The attainment of liberation
Which by its most rigorous de1nition
*s unattainable!
*s not the egoic stri&er
The real barrier
Beteen hat one thin$s one is and
That hich one ishes to become!
Ho can one become
What one has alays been and alays ill be!
Does sugar suddenly become seet!
# Wu Hsin
ou are not your cart
4or are you the horse pulling it.
ou are the $noer of both and
The identity of neither.
# Wu Hsin Time can tear don mountains.
/onsider hat the timeless source of time can do2
# Wu Hsin
Before there is clarity
9&erything is &ieed through a $eyhole.
After there is clarity
The door has been remo&ed.
# Wu HsinDesire is the urge to be happy.
Desirelessness is the
%ruit of the recognition of
*nherent happiness.
# Wu Hsin
The accumulation of $noledge does not
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3ead to omniscience.
,noing hat needs to be $non
%or e&ery moment
*n e&ery moment is omniscience.
*t begins ith
,noing one-s mind.
# Wu Hsin
"ne ho feeds
The ol&es of excess is ne&er alone
4or e&er appeased.
By ma$ing oneself loer
"ne attains the highest.
# Wu Hsin
3ong ago
Wu Hsin used to be somebody.
4o he is in all things and
All things are in him and
He has become
4o body in particular.
# Wu Hsin
Being in the Way that is
Alignment ith Di&ine *ntention
6eans simply not to
Be in the ay.
# Wu Hsin
%reedom is not something
"ne possesses.
%reedom is
That hich possesses.
# Wu Hsin
5ntil one escapes from
The prison of the body%or e&ery inside there ill be
An outside.
# Wu Hsin
6orality is an illusion7
Who can stop
The mo&ement of the orld!
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Who can impro&e upon the sacred!
# Wu Hsin
*t is only the empty man
Who understands and embodies
The subtleties of subtraction.*t is he ho is intimate ith
The 6other of all things.
# Wu Hsin
3ife is the oscillation beteen
(leasure and pain.
Hoe&er pleasure is not happiness.
(leasure is momentary
Dependent on circumstances or things.
Happiness depends on nothing.
# Wu Hsin
What further e&idence is required
To pro&e your complete distrust of
our god
Beyond the fact that
ou orry about tomorro!
# Wu Hsin)o many fear aloneness.
This is the great paradox.
5pon the reali=ation that There is no other
Aloneness is understood to be
What is natural.
# Wu Hsin
What follos is
A listing of things
"ne must do
To attain "neness:
# Wu Hsin
To ma$e Wu Hsin laugh
"ne need merely tal$
About one-s feeling of disconnection.
Wu Hsin sees the thirsty 1sh.
Wu Hsin laughs and laughs.
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# Wu Hsin
?ust as ater is serene
When it is free of ripples
3i$eise the mind is serene
When it is free of thought.
%ree of thought:%ree of 8udgment
%ree of discrimination
%ree of defense
%ree of agenda and
%ree of strategy.
%ree.
# Wu Hsin
Aareness alone exists.
(rior to the arising of things
Aareness simply is.
5pon the arising
Aareness is conscious of things.
Things come
Things go.
Birth groth dissolution.
Amidst it all
Aareness is the 5nmo&able7
4o here to go to
4o here to come from.
# Wu Hsin
9&ery man is a star in the s$y
Appearing
6o&ing for a time and then gone.
9ach star ful1lls its purpose
Without concern for hether
*ts mo&ements are right or rong.
# Wu Hsin
As the long inding road5ninds
The sense of specialness
Disappears and is replaced by
The apperception of the unity
With e&ery thing.
# Wu Hsin
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"nly this no#moment is eternal and real.
All else is mind.
)pontaneity is presence in the present.
Where is the place for mind there!
# Wu Hsin To smell the
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)ho Wu Hsin you-re ;my;.
# Wu Hsin
The past is only
A memory.
The future is onlyA hope.
All there is
*s this moment.
# Wu Hsin
The deep understanding
The clear seeing
That there is no liberation
*s itself
3iberation.
# Wu Hsin
Do not spea$ to me of the Truth
As if Truth is something to be led around on a rein
"r bottled.
Truth resides in a dimension beyond thought.
Beyond concepts.
# Wu Hsin
The beggar-s bol may be made of
(ure gold but if The beggar does not $no this then
He is a pauper.
# Wu Hsin
5nity has no thoughts
Because in unity
There is no thing to thin$ about.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin cannot help you%ind your god.
our god is somebody
6y god is no body.
our god is somehere
6y god is e&eryhere.
our god is something
6y god is no thing yet
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9&erything.
Ho can you expect Wu Hsin to help you!
Wu Hsin cannot separate the
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)top praying
)top see$ing
)top analy=ing
)top all your strategies and lastly
)top gi&ing your thoughts
The authority to de1neWho you are.
)imply allo hat remains to
'e&eal *tself.
# Wu Hsin
Wu Hsin ill not
9ngage you in debate.
Debate is food for
The mind.
6y preference is not to
%eed the mind but to
)tar&e it.
# Wu Hsin
'e8ect the path
'e8ect the 8ourney
'e8ect the desire to become
Anything in particular.
'e8ect time itself and
Become en&eloped in hat remains.
# Wu Hsin
What is reali=ation!
'eali=ation is the understanding
That there is no one to be reali=ed.
4othing else.
# Wu Hsin
What one as before this
What one ill be after this is
4o di+erent fromWhat one is no.
(rior to a body
(rior to a mind
(rior to a personality
This is *t.
# Wu Hsin
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/hasing hat is impermanent
Brings 8oy on the
Day of acquisition and
)orro on the day of loss.
Why not chase
What is permanent instead!
# Wu Hsin
6an is not possessed
By a separate self.
He is merely possessed by
His belief in one.
# Wu Hsin
Do not loo$ at me.
* come before you to
(oint you to the sun.
Do not loo$ at me.
3oo$ at the sun.
# Wu Hsin
Why do you complain
About the dar$ness
When there are unlit candles
Beside your bed!
*t-s really quite simple:
,no hat you are not9&erything that you are not.
What remains is hat you are and
Ha&e alays been.
# Wu Hsin
Where&er there are others
There is a separate self
Where&er there are no others
There can be no self
Where&er there is no self There are no others
Because in the absence of self