It gives us a sense of the beyond. When we experience satori, we sense that it is rooted somewhere else. The hard individual shell encasing one’s personality shatters the moment we experience satori. The feeling that follows is one of complete liberation or complete rest, of finally having arrived at one’s destination. 6. It has an impersonal tone. In Suzuki’s words, “Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Zen experience is that it has no personal note in it, as is observable in Christian mystic experiences.” 7. Feeling of exaltation. Upon breaking with the restriction of being an
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