Top 37 Hakuin Ekaku Quotes
#1. Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?
Woody Allen
#2. Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.
Hakuin Ekaku
#3. 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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#4. At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
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#5. Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.
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#6. 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
#7. Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
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#8. Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.
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#10. You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?
Hakuin Ekaku
#11. For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation's great cause ... There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.
Richard Perle
#12. Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
Casey Neistat
#13. Everyone does it. It doesn't mean you're a bad man. It just means you're not as good of one as you should be.
D.C. Juris
#14. Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
Hakuin Ekaku
#15. The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them the vote in 1920. Women couldn't even own property in their own names until the last quarter of the 19th century in America.
John Shelby Spong
#17. 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
#18. My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.
Ellsworth Kelly
#19. Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
Hakuin Ekaku
#21. I had to bear the sunken glare of his fierce crow-footed eyes if I wanted to know; and so I bore it, reflecting how much certain forms of evil are akin to madness, derived from intense egoism, inflamed by resistance, tearing the soul to pieces, and giving factitious vigour to the body.
Joseph Conrad
#22. 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
#23. In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.
Hakuin Ekaku
#24. The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
Hakuin Ekaku
#25. If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
Irving Kirsch
#26. If you forget yourself, you become the universe.
Hakuin Ekaku
#27. From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.
Hakuin Ekaku
#28. Don't do that with me," he replied, staring down at me with a look of almost hunger on his face. "We're too much alike to pretend with each other. At least when we're alone, lets be who we truly are.
Sara B. Larson
#29. As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.
Gaston Leroux
#30. All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one.
Gwendolyn MacEwen
#31. From the very beginning all beings are Buddha.
Like water and ice,without water no ice,
outside us no Buddhas.
Hakuin Ekaku
#32. 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
#33. You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.
Jay Leno
#36. I wil not calm down. My baby girl is moving halfway across the country."
"She's been moved away before," Dad pointed out.
"Yeah, but that was with Billy. We all knew he wouldn't work out. We're talking about Hank here. Look at him," she pointed to Hank.
"She's never coming home. Never.
Kristen Ashley
#37. How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
Hakuin Ekaku
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