Wei Wu Wei: Quotes about understanding

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“Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding.”

Wei Wu Wei

Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (1960)
Context: Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance

“One must know that one is not in order to be able to understand that we are.”

Wei Wu Wei

Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)

“There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i. e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.”

Wei Wu Wei

Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)

“Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.”

Wei Wu Wei

Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)