Wang Wei

Wang Wei (699-759) was a Chinese poet, artist, and musician.

Wisdom & Quotes

• How could suffering be relieved through purification ?

To know the Path is to get lost at the ford.
Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love
And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
- Two poems to the Buddhist scholar Hu, Written "When we were both sick."

• In late years I desire only peace;

For worldly affairs my heart has no concern.
I have no long-range plan for my own care;
All I know is to return to the old woods,
Where the pine wind blows on my loosened belt
And the mountain moon shines on the strung zither.
You ask the law of failure and success -
" The fisherman's song enters the riverbank deep."
- To Sub-perfect Chang

• You ask what is the ultimate answer ?

It is the song of a fisherman sailing back to shore.

• A traveller's thoughts is the night

Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.
- Seeking a Mooring

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