"All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas. How sad that people ignore the near and search the truth afar: like someone in the midst of watercrying out in thirst: like a child of a wealthy home wandering among the poor." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"If you forget yourself, you become the universe." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking - it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings."
"Those who practice only in silence/tranquility, cannot establish their [internal] freedom when entering into activity. When they engage into worldy activities, their usual satori (enlightment) will eventually disappear without any trace." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"Those who testify to the truth of the nature of the Self, Have found it by reflecting within themselves." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"Zen practice in the midst of activity is a million times superior to that pursued within tranquility." (Hakuin Ekaku)
"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)
"You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?" (Hakuin Ekaku)
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