| 释义 |
‖ satori Zen Buddhism.|saˈtoːri|
[Jap., = spiritual awakening.]
A sudden indescribable and uncommunicable inner experience of enlightenment. Also transf. Hence saˈtoric a., pertaining to or inducing satori.
1727J. G. Scheuchzer tr. Kæmpfer's Hist. Japan I. iii. vi. 242 This profound Enthusiasm is by them call'd Safen, and the divine truths revealed to such persons Satori. 1921A. Waley Nō Plays of Japan 58 The only escape from this ‘Wheel of Life and Death’ lies in satori, ‘Enlightenment’, the realization that material phenomena are thoughts, not facts. 1921D. T. Suzuki in Eastern Buddhist May 33 The power to see into the nature of one's own being lies also hidden here [in the subconscious]. Zen awakens it. The awakening is known as Satori, or the opening of a third eye. 1933― Ess. Zen Buddhism 2nd Ser. i. 21 When you have satori you are able to reveal a palatial mansion made of precious stones on a single blade of grass; but when you have no satori, a palatial mansion itself is concealed behind a simple blade of grass. 1949C. Humphreys Zen Buddhism ii. 33 Satori, the immediate experience of truth as distinct from understanding about it. 1957New Yorker 31 Aug. 35/1 It takes at least ten years of meditation and koans to attain even one flash of satori. 1968T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test viii. 102 It was as if Cassady..was in a state of satori, as totally into this very moment, Now, as a being can get. 1970W. Burroughs Jr. Speed vii. 154 His music was improvised to fit short declarations and imaginary rhyming words, prayers and questions to the audience that he fit together in a satoric sound that brought me back to and into the running water. 1974Sci. Amer. Oct. 140/2 Thought, like the kingdom of life, grows and evolves slowly; the book focuses on ‘the inner work of synthesis’ and not on the claimed satori of one chance page. |