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.
Hakuin EkakuMeditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
Hakuin EkakuUnderlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
Hakuin Ekaku