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Satori has no beginning; practice has not end! -- Kodo Sawaki
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous. -- Bruce Lee
Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening. -- Hakuin Ekaku
After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Taisen Deshimaru
Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha. -- Zenkei Shibayama
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. -- Rajneesh
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. -- Gabrielle Roth
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. -- Martha Beck
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen. -- Alan Watts
I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student. -- Sting
Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict. -- William S. Burroughs
Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict. -- William S. Burroughs
Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
Today's satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed in blossoms. -- Saigy?
After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like. -- Frederick Lenz

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