Top 31 Hakuin Quotes

#1. 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

Hakuin Quotes #73641
#2. Body and soul need new challenges.

Paulo Coelho

Hakuin Quotes #83905
#3. In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #91510
#4. We hire five, work them like ten, and pay them like eight."31

James C. Collins

Hakuin Quotes #94138
#5. The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #211529
#6. If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #292554
#7. From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #330415
#8. If only you could hear
the sound of snow

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #374293
#9. From the very beginning all beings are Buddha.
Like water and ice,without water no ice,
outside us no Buddhas.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #451428
#10. 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

Hakuin Quotes #461260
#11. What is the sound of one hand?

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #498935
#12. I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!'

Robert Carlyle

Hakuin Quotes #572895
#13. How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #693933
#14. Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #777666
#15. 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

Hakuin Quotes #832952
#16. At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #833786
#17. The sub has the upper hand in a true Master and sub relationship, Thomas. Always. I can possess you only as long as you want to belong to me.

Joey W. Hill

Hakuin Quotes #884164
#18. Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #902119
#19. I'm a person who loves people. It's all about the vibe of the environment I'm working in.

Gal Gadot

Hakuin Quotes #909369
#20. 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

Hakuin Quotes #955447
#21. Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #961956
#22. When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

Vishwas Chavan

Hakuin Quotes #988187
#23. Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #1014283
#24. You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #1061281
#25. Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #1180303
#26. 'But even I know that in your line of work, there's a difference between being a volunteer and being volun-told.'

T.J. Klune

Hakuin Quotes #1379028
#27. If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

Alain Robert

Hakuin Quotes #1423337
#28. Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #1446442
#29. 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

Hakuin Quotes #1533881
#30. Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Quotes #1747002
#31. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

CeeLo Green

Hakuin Quotes #1810597

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