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Satori

Awakening or understanding: the Zen experience of realization, often used interchangeably with kenshō.

Mahāyāna, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism

Satori, from a verb meaning to understand, names the experience of awakening in Zen. Some teachers use it for a deeper and more complete realization than kenshō. D. T. Suzuki made the word known in the West, sometimes presenting it as a sudden break with ordinary consciousness.