17 Quotes by Hakuin Ekaku

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

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.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.

Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

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.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.