Hakuin Ekaku famous quotes

03-25-2025

All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Honesty #Ice #Water
You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Hands #Two #Sound
Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Art #Sweat #Desire
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Lying #Doubt #Awakening
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Meditation #Midst #Thousand
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.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Fire #Self #Secret
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 Ekaku

#Loss #Evil #Meditation
From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Compassion #Sea #Shining
Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Doubt #Awakening #Thorough
From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Ice #Water
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.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Eye #Land #Lotuses
If only you could hear the sound of snow
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Snow #Sound
What is the sound of one hand?
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Hands #Sound
How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Wisdom #Moonlight
Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Meaningful #Knowing #Truth Is
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Thinking #Self #Meditation
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.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Eye #Practice #Focus

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