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Zen Masters - Hakuin Ekaku

3,341 views · Published 5 April 2017 · 1:00:00 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Zen Meditation Planet · 2017 · Music

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Hakuin Ekaku was born in 1686 in the Hara village (located near the Mount Fuji). When he was a child, he heard a lecture about Eight Hot Hells - this scared him so very much that he decided to escape from the eternal punishment. This fear of hell put him on a path to monastic life.
Hakuin was a prominent person in Zen Buddhism since he is responsible for reviving the Rinzai line of teaching. Hakuin was a follower of the traditional approach because his way of training included meditation. He was focused particularly on the act of provoking his students, awaking the "great doubt" (called "koan") in order to verify their progress in the Zen philosophy.
It is interesting that his full awakening happened when he was 41 years old. Finding the true and ultimate meaning of Lotus was a turning point in Hakuin's life. While reading Lotus Sutra he discovered the real meaning of Bodhi-mind - it occurred to him that the true mission of Bodhisattva is to aid and work for others, even beyond the stage of enlightenment, until they also gain salvation and liberation. 
Hakuin Ekaku died as an elderly man, at 83 years old. He passed away in Hara, his home village at the foot of Mount Fuji. This place later becomes a center for teaching Zen.
There is one famous anecdote from his life, which originated around the time of his awakening: 
"A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near Hakuin. One day, without any warning, her parents discovered she was pregnant. This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was but after much harassment at last named Hakuin. In great anger, the parents went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say. After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else the child needed. A year later the girl could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth - the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fish market. The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back. Hakuin willingly yielded the child, saying only: Is that so?"
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