Birth: 1686 Death: 1769
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the goo….
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully..
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..
Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediatel….
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 ….
Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness..
From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth..
You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?.
Nirvana is right here, before our eyes..
How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom..
In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law..
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings..
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..
Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness..
Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads..
From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas..
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness..
Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away..
If you forget yourself, you become the universe..
Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening..
If only you could hear the sound of snow.