Hakuin Ekaku Quotes

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

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.

How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

What is the sound of one hand?

In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

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.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

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.