3. Authoritativeness. "By this I mean that the knowledge
realized by Satori is final, that no amount of logical argument can
refute it. Being direct and personal it is sufficient unto itself.
All that logic can do here is to explain it, to interpret it in
connection to other kinds of knowledge with which our minds are
filled. Satori is thus a form of perception, an inner perception,
which takes place in the most interior part of consciousness.
Guess how many pregnant teens said the same thing?
4. Affirmation. "What is authoritative and final can never be
negative. Though the Satori experience is sometimes expressed in
negative terms, it is essentially an affirmative attidude towards
all things that exist; it accepts them as they come along
regardless of their moral values."
What?
5. Sense of the Beyond. "...in Satori there is always what we
may call a sense of the Beyond; the experience indeed is my own but
I feel it to be rooted elsewhere. The individual shell in which my
personality is so solidly encased explodes at the moment of Satori.
Not, necessarily, that I get unified with a being greater than
myself or absorbed in it, but that my individuality, which I found
rigidly held together and definitely kept separate from other
individual existences, becomes lossened somehow from its tightening
grip and melts away into something indescribable, something which
is of quite a different order from what I am accustomed to. The
feeling that follows is that of complete release or a complete
rest---the feeling that one has arrived finally at the
destination...As far as the psychology of Satori is considered, a
sense of the Beyond is all we can say about it; to call this the
Beyond, the Absolute, or God, or a Person is to go further than the
experience itself and to plunge into a theology or metaphysics.";
See #5 above as well as Turiyatita.
Yeah! The other day I was walking my dog and I was thinking what
kind of answer I want from buddhism. Then I remembered the
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and then I realised that if there
were no question there would be no answer. There is answer only if
there is question. (probably because now my dad is really starting
to put in effort to change himself so all my frustrations are
greatly lessened.)
