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Zen and Tea Learning

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The great Zen master, Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1768) said:

Meditation in the MIDST of activity is a billion times superior to meditation in stillness!

Four Japanese characters written in thick black ink on a white background. They say " The everyday mind is the training ground." The writer's name and two red seals are written vertically to the left of the four characters.

"The everyday mind is the training ground" by Onozawa Kankai

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Lecture Notes

It was a philosophy that appealed to lay people, including the samurai, because it offered them an opportunity for salvation that many traditional schools of Buddhism had reserved to those who left the ordinary life and devoted themselves entirely to monastic practice.