# Hakuin Ekaku
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hakuin ekaku (白隠 慧鶴, January 19, 1686 – January 18, 1769) was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is regarded as the reviver of the Rinzai school from a moribund period of stagnation, refocusing it on its traditionally rigorous training methods integrating meditation and koan practice.
== Biography ==
=== Early years ===
Hakuin was born in 1686 in the small village of Hara, at the foot of Mount Fuji.
Episode 14: What Is the Sound of One Kōan Clapping?
You've probably heard about kōans, those enigmatic zen dialogs that make no sense. Jundo and Kirk discuss the origin and history of kōans, what they mean, how they work, and what the sound of one hand clapping really is.
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Kōan (Wikipedia)
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The Unsurpassed Way 5/16
This week we honored our high schoolers who will be graduating in the following week. The reading is from Hakuin Ekaku, titled "Praise Song for Meditation". This week Rev. Brian Chenowith shines a light on a unique connection between Unitarian Universalism and a specific sect of Buddhism- RRK Buddh…
67. Song of Zazen
Who you gonna call?
Where you gonna look for it?
Look in the mirror!
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Stepping out of the Soto Zen lineage, we want to pay our respects to one of the great masters of the Rinzai lineage, Master Hakuin Ekaku. His life bridged the 17th and 18th centuries, so he was active during the colonial per…
Great Doubt - Great Faith - Great Enlightenment with Santiago Santai Jiménez
Facing the unknown is a fundamental task in the spiritual path. How can we harness the power of doubt as a doorway to deep realization?
“Great doubt, great enlightenment. Small doubt, small enlightenment. No doubt, no enlightenment.” this Zen quote, usually attributed to master Hakuin Ekaku, highl…
Rinzai Zen's Great Doubt: How Kōans Engineer a Spiritual Crisis
In this podcast, we explore the enigmatic practice of kōan introspection within the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism. Often misunderstood as simple riddles, kōans are actually paradoxical questions or stories designed not to be solved with logic, but to push the analytical mind to its absolute limit.…
Risking Kindness: Why AI chatbots reflect our truths back to us on demand (probably).
AI is compassion, on demand.
Empathy, statistically optimized.
The only voice left that sounds patient is the one programmed to be.
We train through feeds, algorithms, and performance anxiety to see conversation as combat. Signal or be punished. Perform or be erased.
So people retreat. They s…
How to Work with Emotional Koans - Ekai Joel Kreisberg
How to Work with Emotional Koans - Ekai Joel Kreisberg - February 21st, 2026
Ekai Joel Kreisberg explains that traditional Rinzai koan training, systematized by Hakuin Ekaku, treats awakening (kensho) as the starting point of practice. Junpo Denis Kelly Roshi recognized that insight alone does not…
AITP 003 — The Second Breath, with Corey Hess
Corey Hess, a Zen-trained bodyworker and teacher of standing meditation, traces what happened when the practice of getting well began to interfere with the possibility of being well. The conversation moves through a month in a dark room at Sōgen-ji monastery in Japan, the difference between energy …
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