The Embossed Tea Kettle: Orate Gama and other works of Hakuin Zenji

by Hakuin Ekaku, Diana St Ruth (Editor), David Friedman (Foreword)

Zen Master Hakuin was a man of extraordinary gifts, mystic and practical, strong and gentle, imbued with true compassion and with an open eye for the miseries of the human situation on all levels. Moreover, he was a great painter — unique among the artists of his time — as well as a prolific writer with an acute power of observation.

Hakuin Zenji (1685-1769) averted the decline of the Rinzai movement and became the founder of modern Zen.

Though the earth is hard, tread on it softly! Great things are destroyed by little things. If you are careless about little things, you will accomplish nothing. Everybody — Wake up!

215 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2021

About the author

Hakuin Ekaku (白隠 慧鶴), also known as Hakuin Zenji, 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.