If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.
Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.
To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.
Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!
I want to take you to a place of pure magic. . . It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.
I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.
After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.
