Birth: 1686 Death: 1769
What is the sound of one hand?.
Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness..
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings..
Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away..
Nirvana is right here, before our eyes..
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 ….
How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom..
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..
Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads..
You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?.
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….
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..
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness..
If only you could hear the sound of snow.
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..
From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas..
From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth..
Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness..
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully..
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the goo….