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> [Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/meditation-in-action-is-endlessly-more-important-than-meditation-in/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

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## More by Hakuin Ekaku

> [From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/from-the-sea-of-effortlessness-let-your-great-uncaused-compassion/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [If you forget yourself, you become the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/if-you-forget-yourself-you-become-the-universe/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/i-encourage-all-you-superior-seekers-in-the-secret-depths-to-devote/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/at-the-bottom-of-great-doubt-lies-great-awakening-if-you-doubt-fully/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/you-know-the-sound-of-two-hands-clapping-tell-me-what-is-the-sound-of/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/not-knowing-how-near-the-truth-is-we-seek-it-far-away/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [“A soldier came to Hakuin and asked "Is there really a paradise and a hell?" "Who are you?" inquired Hakuin. "I am a samurai,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/a-soldier-came-to-hakuin-and-asked-is-there-really-a-paradise-and-a/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/in-singing-and-dancing-is-the-voice-of-the-law/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/meditation-in-action-is-endlessly-more-important-than-meditation-in/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/once-a-person-is-able-to-achieve-true-singlemindedness-in-his/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/should-you-desire-the-great-tranquility-prepare-to-sweat/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/at-this-moment-is-there-anything-lacking-nirvana-is-right-here-now/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [What is the sound of one hand?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/what-is-the-sound-of-one-hand/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/how-bright-and-transparent-the-moonlight-of-wisdom/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

> [Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hakuin-ekaku/underlying-great-doubt-there-is-great-satori-where-there-is-thorough/)

[Hakuin Ekaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hakuin-ekaku/)

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