Word: satori
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hell with it,' nor to underline with violence the fact that anything goes." Square Zen is just as far off the true beam. It is "the Zen of established tradition in Japan, with its clearly defined hierarchy, its rigid discipline, and its specific tests of satori." Though far better than "the common-or-garden squareness of the Rotary Club or the Presbyterian Church ... it is still square because it is a quest for the right spiritual experience, for a satori which will receive the stamp of approved and established authority. There will even be certificates to hang...
Since ideas have form, this formlessness is completely different from any ideas that one may have about it. The only understanding of it comes from "satori" or the "awakening," an instantaneous flash of insight. It is impossible, he concluded, to "seek the Buddha externally," but only in oneself...
...denied-nor liturgy, beyond the act of meditation itself. Hence there are no Zen churches or membership figures for the laity (there are an estimated 19,325 monks in Zen monasteries in Japan, plus 1.658 nuns). The practitioner of Zen is concerned only with enlightenment, which he calls satori. Enlightenment is often achieved by means that are shocking, in every sense of the word. A master may help his student to satori by hitting him with a staff (pang) or roaring at him (pang-ho). A less physical shock technique is the koan, a problem designed to shock the mind...