"Meditation in the midst of activity is a……" — Hakuin Ekaku
"Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness."
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15 Quotes by Hakuin Ekaku
Hakuin Ekaku has 15 quotes on this site.
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The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
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Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
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All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart…
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What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the…
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How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
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Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.
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You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?
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What is the sound of one hand?
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At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
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Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
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I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as…
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From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.
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More Activity Quotes
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one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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