''So far the phenomenon called satori in Zen Buddhism has been treated as constituting the essence of Zen, as the turning point in one's life,which opens up the mind to a wider and deeper world.
People often imagine that the discipline of Zen is to induce a state of self suggestion through meditation. This is not quite right. Satori is rather, a sort of mental catastrophe taking place all at once after so much piling of matters intellectual and demonstrative.The piling has reached its limit and the whole edifice has now come to the ground, when behold a new heaven is opened to your full survey. The older frame is called 'Ignorance' (avidya) and the new one 'Enlightenment' (sambodhi).''
(Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's ''Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series'')
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