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(? Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
wù ; Korean
Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
 ?) is a Japanese Buddhist term for enlightenment. The word literally means "understanding". Satori translates into a flash of sudden awareness, or individual Enlightenment. Satori is as well an intuitive experience. It is sometimes loosely used interchangeably with Kensho
Kensho

Kensho is a Japanese language term for Enlightenment experiences?most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism.Most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism?literally meaning "seeing one's nature" or "true self." It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of subject and object." Frequently used in juxtapositi...
, but Kensho refers to the first perception of the Buddha-Nature
Buddha-nature

Buddha-nature is a doctrine important for many schools of Mahayana Buddhism. The Buddha Nature or Buddha Principle is taught to be a truly real, but internally hidden immortal potency or element within the purest depths of the mind, present in all sentience beings, for bodhi and becoming a Buddhahood....
 or True-Nature, sometimes referred to as "awakening".






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Satori
(? Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
wù ; Korean
Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
 ?) is a Japanese Buddhist term for enlightenment. The word literally means "understanding". Satori translates into a flash of sudden awareness, or individual Enlightenment. Satori is as well an intuitive experience. It is sometimes loosely used interchangeably with Kensho
Kensho

Kensho is a Japanese language term for Enlightenment experiences?most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism.Most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism?literally meaning "seeing one's nature" or "true self." It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of subject and object." Frequently used in juxtapositi...
, but Kensho refers to the first perception of the Buddha-Nature
Buddha-nature

Buddha-nature is a doctrine important for many schools of Mahayana Buddhism. The Buddha Nature or Buddha Principle is taught to be a truly real, but internally hidden immortal potency or element within the purest depths of the mind, present in all sentience beings, for bodhi and becoming a Buddhahood....
 or True-Nature, sometimes referred to as "awakening". Distinct from kensho
Kensho

Kensho is a Japanese language term for Enlightenment experiences?most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism.Most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism?literally meaning "seeing one's nature" or "true self." It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of subject and object." Frequently used in juxtapositi...
, which is not a permanent state of enlightenment but a clear glimpse of the true nature of existence, satori is used to refer to a "deep" or lasting state of enlightenment. It is therefore customary to use the word satori, rather than kensho, when referring to the enlightened states of the Buddha
Gautama Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama was a Spirituality teacher in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is generally seen by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddhahood of our age....
 and the Patriarchs.

According to D. T. Suzuki, "Satori is the raison d'être
Raison D'être

Raison d'?tre is a phrase borrowed from French where it means simply "reason for being"; in English use it also comes to suggest a degree of rationalization, as "The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone"....
 of Zen
Zen

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Ch?n. Ch?n is itself derived from the Sanskrit Dhyana, which means "meditation" ....
, without which Zen is no Zen. Therefore every contrivance, disciplinary and doctrinal, is directed towards satori."

See also

  • Arhat
    Arhat

    In the shramana traditions of ancient India arhat or arahant signified a spiritual practitioner who had?to use an expression common in the tipitaka?"laid down the burden"?and realised the goal of nirvana, the culmination of the spiritual life ....
  • Bodhi
    Bodhi

    Bodhi is both the Pali and Sanskrit word traditionally translated into English language as "enlightenment." The word "Buddhahood" means "one who has achieved bodhi." Bodhi is also frequently translated as "awakening."...
  • Daigo
    Daigo (Zen)

    Daigo, or daigo tettei, is a Japanese language term used within Zen Buddhism which usually denotes a "[g]reat realization or enlightenment." Moreover, "[t]raditionally, daigo is final, absolute enlightenment, contrasted to experiences of glimpsing enlightenment, shogo." According to Dogen in a fascicle of the Shobogenzo titled '...
  • Enlightenment
    Enlightenment

    Enlightenment may refer to:...
  • Kensho
    Kensho

    Kensho is a Japanese language term for Enlightenment experiences?most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism.Most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism?literally meaning "seeing one's nature" or "true self." It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of subject and object." Frequently used in juxtapositi...
  • Koan
    Koan

    A koan is a narrative, dialogue, question, or statement in the history and lore of Ch?n Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rationality understanding, yet may be accessible to intuition ....
  • Mushi dokugo
    Mushi dokugo

    Mushi dokugo, sometimes called jigo jisho, is a Japanese language term used in Zen Buddhism which expresses the phenomenon known as "awakening alone, without a master." It is "usually considered suspect since the risk of self-delusion or 'fake-Zen' is always high." According to William M....
  • Nirvana
    Nirvana

    In sramana thought, Nirvana is the state of being free from both dukkha and the cycle of rebirth. It is an important concept in Buddhism and Jainism....
  • Zen
    Zen

    Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Ch?n. Ch?n is itself derived from the Sanskrit Dhyana, which means "meditation" ....