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Hakuin Ekaku

19 January 1686-18 January 1769

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Contemplation is best when linked with activity. Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

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Doubt is a thing at whose greatest depths lies great awakening. If one doubts fully, one will awaken fully.

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Meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking and a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

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

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The Self is confining and limiting — if one forgets oneself, one becomes the universe.