From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.

- Hakuin Ekaku

If only you could hear the sound of snow

- 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 goo…

- Hakuin Ekaku

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

- Hakuin Ekaku

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

- Hakuin Ekaku

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

- Hakuin Ekaku

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.

- Hakuin Ekaku

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

- Hakuin Ekaku

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

- Hakuin Ekaku