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On Satori—The Revelation of a New Truth in Zen Buddhism
Abstract
In this classic essay, D. T. Suzuki sets forth his views on the crucial importance of satori (awakening) as the crucial experience in Rinzai Zen and in Buddhism more generally. Suzuki’s perspective helped shape twentieth-century Buddhism around the world.
It is fair to report that within Moreno’s methods, theories and philosophies, there is to be found an embedded educational mystic tradition with theories and basic ideas: a Morenean group and individual enlightenment education with the whole of humankind as its objective. This all of humanity objective, is explained in the different sections of this chapter and describes an underlying sociometric dynamic Moreno saw as impacting all social reality. Moreno’s enlightenment education also holds to the vision of an unfathomable vastness accessible to us, in which the presence of the godhead enlightens through us, in groups as well. This educational practice must also include the long activity of an integration process over the course of time. A Morenean group-based enlightenment education might not be what one might first imagine. Zerka Moreno has written that this is Moreno’s original creation, drawn from his study and experience of the great religious and spiritual traditions, and his study and realizations about the sociometric history and status of humanity. Five principles are addressed in this enlightenment education: (1) There is an underlying structure to a group that is the same underlying structure to society and the world humanity. This structure has a determining impact on all aspects of social reality and has a determining impact on human and nonhuman life. (2) There is also an active, always present, intelligence that is without form, a first universe, from which sentient life has emerged. (3) The presence of this intelligence, cosmic in nature, is similar to quantum teaching about the field in which all forms of life are entangled and connected. This realm of reality, this first universe, the experience of it can change one's sense of separation and isolation from this first universe, while being here in the world of form, this second universe that Moreno describes. This is what the First Nations teach and we find similarity in what other spiritual and mystic traditions teach. (4) This Primordial Intelligence, its presence, moves with us and within a group. It shows us the sociometric structures, the circles of inclusion, and the concentrations of wealth, and offers a mirrored reflection of our social reality. This is a way of understanding sociometry from a global perspective. This mystic tradition offers a direct and personal experience of the Great Spirit that infuses us with life and brings us closer to our common ground. (5) This intelligence, with us, heals the underlying structure of society in small groups and our lives and can change in an enlightened way. This is an essence of Moreno’s group enlightenment education. The body of this knowledge is contained in four symbols that are instructions, or codes, left to us.
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