Hakuin Ekaku quotes
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“All beings 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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“You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?”
-- Hakuin EkakuSource : Hakuin Ekaku (2010). “The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin: A Translation of the Sokko-roku Kaien-fusetsu”, p.1, Shambhala Publications
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“Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.”
-- Hakuin EkakuSource : "Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game". Book by Larry W. Phillips, 1999.
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“At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.”
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“Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to 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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“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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“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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“From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.”
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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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“If only you could hear the sound of snow”
-- Hakuin EkakuSource : Hakuin Ekaku (2010). “Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin”, p.51, Shambhala Publications
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“How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.”
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“Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.”
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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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“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
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