Friday, November 6, 2009

For Those of You Interested in Satori

Satori is a Japanese Buddhist term for "enlightenment." The word literally means "understanding." "Satori" translates as a flash of sudden awareness, or individual enlightenment. Practitioners of Zen Buddhism attain satori through personal experience. Here's a poem written about it:

A thunderclap under the clear blue sky
All beings on earth open their eyes;
Everything under heaven bows together;
Mount Sumeru leaps up and dances.

No comments:

Post a Comment