Tag Archives: Zen
‘Satori’ at Age Eight?
At age seven or eight I had an experience which I ever-more perceive as a satori. “Satori (Chinese kāi wù) may be defined as an intuitive looking into the nature of things in contradistinction to the analytical or logical understanding … Continue reading
Posted in Enlightenment, kāi wù, satori
Tagged Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki, haiku, INTJ, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, R.H. Blyth, satori, Zen
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A Child’s “Pure Unclouded Brow”
The quote in the title is from the poem that is the preface to Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice found There, the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I was around 11 years old when … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Literature, Church & Religion, Philosophy & Psychology
Tagged Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Child of the pure unclouded brow, Lewis Carroll, Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982, Peter Matthiessen, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice found There, Zen
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