Hakuin Ekaku Quotes
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Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.
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If you forget yourself, you become the universe.
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The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
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Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
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How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
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What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
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At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.
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Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.
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I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.
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From the very beginning all beings are Buddha.
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In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.
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All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
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Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
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From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.
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Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
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Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately appears... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide.
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If only you could hear
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What is the sound of one hand?
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You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?
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At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.