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Satori (Japanese: 悟り) is a Japanese Buddhist term for "awakening", "comprehension; understanding".[1] The word derives from the Japanese verb satoru.[2][3]
In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō,[4][5] "seeing into one's true nature". Ken means "seeing," shō means "nature" or "essence".[4]
Satori and kenshō are commonly translated as "enlightenment", a word that is also used to translate bodhi, prajñā and Buddhahood.
- ^ "Satori". Jisho. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ Suzuki 1994a, p. 88.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Diener, Michael (1994). The encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion : Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber, Stephan Schuhmacher, Gert Woerner (1 ed.). Boston: Shambhala. p. 180. ISBN 0-87773-433-X. OCLC 18051472.
Semantically kenshō has the same meaning as satori and the two terms are often used synonymously. Nevertheless it is customary to use the word satori when speaking of the enlightenment of the Buddha or the Zen patriarchs and to use the word kenshō when speaking of an initial enlightenment experience that still requires to be deepened.