Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

Kensho and Satori

I like to make a distinction between "kensho," which is an experience of seeing into one's true nature," and "satori," which is realizing the illusory nature of the one who was thought to be seeking enlightenment. Satori ends the spiritual search because the imaginary seeker is suddenly seen to be imaginary. This realization happens instantly. Afterwards, the sense of being a someone "in here" looking out from behind a set of eyes at an external world "out there" is replaced by a generalized field of awareness whose origin is neither spatially nor specifically locatable.