Wu Hsin QuotesThis is the Present Condition

8/17/2019 Wu Hsin QuotesThis is the Present Condition

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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

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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

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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

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