词条 | Kenshō |
释义 |
Kenshō{{refn|group=note|{{CJKV|j=見性|t=見性|l=see [one's] nature{{sfn|Baroni|2002|p=188}}{{sfn|Hori|2000|p=287}}{{sfn|Fowler|2005|p=115}}}}}} (見性) is a Japanese term from the Zen tradition. Ken means "seeing," shō means "nature, essence".{{sfn|Kapleau|1989}}{{sfn|Hori|2000|p=287}} It is usually translated as "seeing one's (true) nature," that is, the Buddha-nature. Kenshō is an initial insight or awakening, not full Buddhahood.{{sfn|Sekida|1985|p=226}} It is to be followed by further training to deepen this insight, and learn to express it in daily life.{{sfn|Sekida (translator)|1996}}{{sfn|Yen|1996|p=54}}{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=91}} The term kenshō is often used interchangeably with satori, which is derived from the verb satoru,{{sfn|Suzuki|1994-A|p=88}} and means "comprehension; understanding".[1]{{refn|group=note|According to Fischer-Schreiber, kenshō and satori are nearly synonymous, with a customary distinction of using kenshō for an initial enlightenment experience that still requires deepening, and satori for the Buddhahood enlightenment of a Buddha or Zen patriarch.{{sfn|Fischer-Schreiber|1991|p=115}} Hakuin uses the word "satori" for initial insight, synonymous with kensho.{{sfn|Hakuin|2010}}}}{{refn|group=note|The Japanese Zen-tradition has a rich vocabulaire of terms related to "enlightenment": awakenening (kaku), true awakening (shōgaku), perfect awakening (engaku), insight (sei), attaining the Way (jōdō), becoming Buddha (jōbutsu), opening the eye (kaigen), liberation (gedatsu), aythetication (shō), the great death (daishi), self-enlightenment without a teacher (mushi dokugo), great satori with full penetration (taigo tettei), and peerless perfect enlightenment (anokutara sanmyaku sanbodai).{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=90}} The list is not exhausted with these terms.{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=90}} Another term for deep awakening is daigo.}} TerminologyThe Chinese Buddhist term jianxing ({{zh|s=见性|t=見性|p=jiànxìng |w=chien-hsing}}) compounds:
HistoryBuddhist monks who produced Sanskrit-Chinese translations of sutras faced many linguistic difficulties:
Thus, jianxing was the translation for dṛṣṭi-svabhāva, "view one's essential nature". The (c. 8th century) Chinese Platform Sutra (2, Prajñā "wisdom, understanding") first records jianxing.[2] PronunciationsThe Standard Chinese pronunciation jianxing historically derives from (c. 7th century CE) Middle Chinese kienCsjäŋC.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} Sino-Xenic pronunciations of this term exist:
Meanings of kenshō{{See also|Bodhi|Wisdom in Buddhism{{!}}Prajna|Buddha-nature|Sunyata|Suchness|Dharmakaya|Alayavijnana}}Translating kenshō into English is semantically complex. Encyclopedic and dictionary definitionsSome encyclopedia and dictionary definitions are:
Definitions by Buddhist scholarsBuddhist scholars have defined kenshō as:
Definitions by Buddhist teachers and practitionersBuddhist teachers and practitioners have defined kenshō as:
Further notionsAccording to Hori, the term kenshō refers to the realization of non-duality of subject and object in general,{{sfn|Hori|1994|p=30}} but the term kenshō may also be applied in other contexts:{{sfn|Hori|2000|p=290}} "How do you kenshō this?"{{sfn|Hori|1994|p=30}} Kenshō is not a single experience, but refers to a whole series of realizations from a beginner's shallow glimpse of the nature of mind, up to a vision of emptiness equivalent to the 'Path of Seeing' or to Buddhahood itself. In all of these, the same 'thing' is known, but in different degrees of clarity and profundity.{{sfn|Harvey|1990|p=275-276}}{{sfn|Hori|1994|p=31}} "Kenshō" is commonly translated as enlightenment, a word that is also used to translate bodhi, prajna, satori and buddhahood. Western discourse tends to use these terms interchangeably, but there is a distinction between a first insight and the further development toward Buddhahood. Insight versus experience{{See also|Buddhist modernism|Transcendentalism|Perennial philosophy}}Kensho is insight, an understanding of reality as-it-is.{{sfn|Samy|1998|p=82}}{{sfn|Harvey|1990|p=275-276}}{{sfn|Dumoulin|2005b|p=380}}{{sfn|Hori|1994|p=30}} Contemporary understanding also describes kensho as an experience, as in "enlightenment experience"; the term "enlightenment experience" is itself a tautology: "Kensho (enlightenment) is an enlightenment (kensho)-experience". The notion of "experience" fits in a popular set of dichotomies: pure (unmediated) versus mediated, noncognitive versus cognitive, experiential versus intellectual, intuitive versus intellectual, nonrational versus rational, nondiscursive versus discursive, nonpropositional versus propositional.{{sfn|Mohr|2000|p=282}} The notion of pure experience (junsui kuiken) to interpret and understand kensho was introduced by Nishida Kitaro in his An Inquiry into the Good (1911), under influence of "his somewhat idiosyncratic reading of western philosophy",{{sfn|Sharf|1995b|p=248}} especially William James, who wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience.{{refn|group=note|Victor Sogen Hori notes that Nishida Kitaro, although using a western terminology, tried to express basic Mahayana Teachings: "He borrowed, for example, the term, junsui keiken, "pure experience", from William James, but then went on to say that, while for James the individual preceded pure experience, for him, pure experience preceded the individual. That reversal makes Nishida’s notion of pure experience resemble less the psychology of William James and more the Mahayana notion of sunyata.{{sfn|Hori|1999|p=47}}}} Wayne Proudfoot traces the roots of the notion of "religious experience" to the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834), who argued that religion is based on a feeling of the infinite. The notion of "religious experience" was used by Schleiermacher to defend religion against the growing scientific and secular critique. It was adopted by many scholars of religion, of which William James was the most influential.{{sfn|Sharf|2000|p=271}}{{refn|group=note|James also gives descriptions of conversion experiences. The Christian model of dramatic conversions, based on the role-model of Paul's conversion, may also have served as a model for western interpretations and expectations regarding kensho, similar to Protestant influences on Theravada Buddhism, as described by Carrithers: "It rests upon the notion of the primacy of religious experiences, preferably spectacular ones, as the origin and legitimization of religious action. But this presupposition has a natural home, not in Buddhism, but in Christian and especially Protestant Christian movements which prescribe a radical conversion."{{sfn|Carrithers|1983|p=18}} See Sekida for an example of this influence of William James and Christian conversion stories, mentioning Luther{{sfn|Sekida|1985|p=196-197}} and St. Paul.{{sfn|Sekida|1985|p=251}} See also McMahan for the influence of Christian thought on Buddhism.{{sfn|McMahan|2008}}}} D.T. Suzuki, who introduced Nishida Kitaro to western philosophy, took over this notion of pure experience, describing it as the essence of all religions,{{sfn|Sharf|1995b|p=248}} but best represented in the superior Japanese culture and religion.{{sfn|Sharf|1993}}{{sfn|Sharf|1995a}} The influence of western psychology and philosophy on Japanese Buddhism was due to the persecution of Buddhism at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, and the subsequent efforts to construct a New Buddhism (shin bukkyo), adapted to the modern times.{{sfn|Sharf|1995b|p=246-248}}{{sfn|Victoria|2006}}{{sfn|McMahan|2008}} It was this New Buddhism which has shaped the understanding of Zen in the west,{{sfn|Sharf|1995b}} especially through the writings of D.T. Suzuki{{sfn|Sharf|1995b|p=247-248}}{{sfn|Borup|Year unknown}}{{sfn|McMahan|2008}} and the Sanbo Kyodan, an exponent of the Meiji-era opening of Zen-training for lay-followers.{{sfn|Sharf|1995c}} The notion of "experience" has been criticised.{{sfn|Sharf|1995b}}{{sfn|Mohr|2000|p=282-286}}{{sfn|Low|2006|p=12}} Robert Sharf points out that "experience" is a typical western term, which has found its way into Asian religiosity via western influences.{{sfn|Sharf|1995b}}{{refn|group=note|Robert Sharf: "[T]he role of experience in the history of Buddhism has been greatly exaggerated in contemporary scholarship. Both historical and ethnographic evidence suggests that the privileging of experience may well be traced to certain twentieth-century reform movements, notably those that urge a return to zazen or vipassana meditation, and these reforms were profoundly influenced by religious developments in the west [...] While some adepts may indeed experience "altered states" in the course of their training, critical analysis shows that such states do not constitute the reference pont for the elaborate Buddhist discourse pertaining to the "path".{{sfn|Sharf|1995c|p=1}}}} The notion of "experience" introduces a false notion of duality between "experiencer" and "experienced", where-as the essence of kensho is the realisation of the "non-duality" of observer and observed.{{sfn|Hori|1994|p=30}}{{sfn|Samy|1998|p=82}} "Pure experience" does not exist; all experience is mediated by intellectual and cognitive activity.{{sfn|Mohr|2000|p=282}}{{sfn|Samy|1998|p=80-82}} The specific teachings and practices of a specific tradition may even determine what "experience" someone has, which means that this "experience" is not the proof of the teaching, but a result of the teaching.{{sfn|Samy|1998|p=80}} A pure consciousness without concepts, reached by "cleaning the doors of perception"{{refn|group=note|William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern."[3]}}, would be an overwhelming chaos of sensory input without coherence.{{sfn|Mohr|2000|p=284}} The notion of "experience" also over-emphasises kensho, as if it were the single goal of Zen-training, where-as the Zen-tradition clearly states that "the stink of Zen"{{sfn|Hori|2006|p=143}} has to be removed and the "experience" of kensho has to be integrated into daily life.{{sfn|Sekida|1996}}{{sfn|Kapleau|1989}}{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=91}} In the Rinzai-school this post-satori training includes the study and mastering of great amounts of classical Chinese poetry, which is far from "universal" and culture-transcending. On the contrary, it demands an education in culture-specific language and behaviour, which is measured by specific and strict cultural norms.{{sfn|Hori|1999|p=50-53}} Emphasising "experience" "reduces the sophisticated dialectic of Ch'an/Zen doctrine and praxis to a mere "means" or set of techniques intended to inculcate such experiences".{{sfn|Sharf|1995b|p=266}} Kenshō accountsClassical accountsClassical Zen texts, such as the Kao-seng-chuan (Biographies of Eminent Monks) and the transmission lists, called "Transmission of the Lamp"{{refn|group=note|A literary device to establish a lineage. Both T'ien Tai and Chán took over this literary device, to lend authority to those developing traditions, and guarantee its authenticity.{{sfn|Chappell|1993|p=181}}{{sfn|McRae|p=2-9}} Notable examples are the Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall (952) and the Jingde Records of the Transmission of the Lamp (published 1004). McRae considers Dumoulin's A History of Zen to be a modern example of this genre, disguished as scientific history;{{sfn|McRae|2005}}}} the yü-lü genre{{sfn|Chappell|1993|p=192}} (the recorded sayings of the masters, such as the Linji yü lü); and the various koan-collections,{{refn|group=note|The two best known koan-collections (in the west) are the "Gateless Gate" and the "Blue Cliff Record". The Gateless Gate (Chinese: 無門關 Wumenguan; Japanese: Mumonkan) is a collection of 48 kōans and commentaries published in 1228 by Chinese monk Wumen (無門) (1183–1260). The title may be more accurately rendered as Gateless Barrier or Gateless Checkpoint. The Blue Cliff Record (Chinese: 碧巖錄 Bìyán Lù; Japanese: Hekiganroku) is a collection of 100 kōans compiled in 1125 by Yuanwu Keqin (圜悟克勤 1063–1135).}} contain accounts of "enlightenment experiences". These accounts are not verbatim recordings of such "experiences", but well-edited texts, written down decades or even decennia after the supposed sayings and meetings.{{sfn|Welter|year unknown}} The Denkōroku, "The Record of the Transmission of the Light", written by Keizan Jōkin 瑩山紹瑾 (1268–1325), is an example of the "Transmission of the Lamp" genre. It contains literary accounts of the patriarchs of the Soto-lineage, from Shakyamuni Buddha to Koun Ejō, in which kensho plays a central role. They are not to be taken as literal accounts of awakening, but as stories underpinning the legitimacy of the Dogen-shu, which in its early history had seen a fierce internal conflict over the correct lineage during the Sandai sōron.{{sfn|Cook|2003|p=xi-xii}}{{sfn|Faure|2000}}{{refn|group=note|Cook: "It is probably safe to say that few if any reputable modern scholars, and probably not many even within the Soto priesthood itself, believe that many of the central events and characters in the Denkoroku are based on historical fact [...] The origins and early developments of Chinese Zen are just now becoming clearer, and the gradually emerging picture is very different from the traditional Zen history found in such works as Keizan's record".{{sfn|Cook|2003|p=15}}}} Dōgen Zenji's awakening is recalled in the Denkoroku: {{quote|Once, during late-night zazen, Rujing told the monks, "Studying Zen is the dropping off of body and mind." Hearing this, the master was suddenly greatly awakened. He went at once to the Abbott's room and burned incense. Rujing asked him, "Why are you burning incense?" The master answered, "Body and mind have dropped off." Rujing said, "Body and mind have dropped off, the dropped-off body and mind." The master said, "This is a temporarily ability; you must not approve me without reason." Rujing replied, "I am not approving you without reason." The master asked, "Why are you not approving me without reason?" Rujing said, "You dropped off body and mind." The master bowed. Rujing said, "You have dropped off dropping off."{{sfn|Cook|2003|p=255}}}}Hakuin gives this description of his first kensho, when he was 21:{{sfn|Waddell|2004|p=xxii}} {{quote|At around midnight on the seventh and final night of my practice, the boom of a bell from a distant temple reached my ears: suddenly, my body and mind dropped completely away. I rose clear of even the finest dust. Overwhelmed with joy, I hollered out at the tops of my lungs, "Old Yen-t'ou is alive and well! [...] After that, however, I became extremely proud and arrogant".{{sfn|Hakuin|2010|p=23}}}}Hakuin's kensho was not approved by Shoju Rojin, who subjected Hakuin to more koan-training. This resulted in a second kensho, where-after Hakuin left Shoju Rojin. It was only when he was 41 that he attained "his final great enlightenment":{{sfn|Waddell|2004|p=xxii}} {{quote|[W]hen Shoju had asked his reason for becoming a monk, his reply – that he had done it because he was afraid of falling into hell – had brought the scornful retort: "You're a self-centered rascal, aren't you!" Not until eighteen years later, upon attainment of his final great enlightenment at the age of forty-one, would Hakuin fully grasp the significance of Shoju's reproach and with it the true meaning of "post-satori" practice. Years later, when Hakuin asked his student Torei the same question, Torei's answer – "To work for the salvation of my fellow beings" – brought a laugh from Hakuin. "A much better reason than mine", he said.{{sfn|Waddell|2004|p=xxii}}}}Contemporary accountsAlthough the Zen tradition is reluctant to speak openly about the 'experience' of kensho,{{sfn|Harris|2004|p=17}} personal accounts can be found in Zen texts.{{refn|group=note|Kapleau gives ten different accounts of contemporary practitioners, including his own kensho under the initials "KP".{{sfn|Kapleau|1989}} Sekida gives an elaborate account of his own kenshos,{{sfn|Sekiad|1985|p=207-222}} and gives various accounts of others.{{sfn|Sekida|1985|194-206}} Satomi gives an account of becoming one with the mu-koan, the classical aimed kensho of the Sanbo Kyodan.{{sfn|Satomi|1993|p=106}} Maura O'Halloran also gives an account of herself becoming mu.{{sfn|O'Halloran|2007|p=78}}}} Keido Fukushima, a 20th-century Rinzai abbott, gives the following description: {{quote|At Nanzenji there is a small hill. I used to walk near there, look at it, and often smile at the high school students who walked by there as well. One day as I walked by, I looked at the hill and it was truly amazing. i was totally lost as if there was no 'me'. I stood gazing at the hill. Some students walked by and one of them said something like 'look at that crazy monk'. Finally I came out of it. Life was never the same for me. I was free.{{sfn|Harris|2004|p=17}}{{refn|group=note|Harris: "After this experience Gensho still had two more years of koan study".{{sfn|Harris|2004|p=17}}}}}}Spontaneous kenshōKenshō may be attained without the aid of a teacher. For example, Richard Clarke (1933), who studied with Philip Kapleau, states that he had a spontaneous kensho when he was 13.[4] Dennis Genpo Merzel states he had what he described as an "awakening experience" in 1971:[5] {{quote|It was in February of that year, and I was 26 years old. My second serious relationship was ending, and I was feeling very confined and conflicted. I needed to get some space, so I went out to the Mojave desert for a three-day camping weekend with two friends. On the Friday, I hiked up a mountain alone. I knew nothing about meditation or spiritual practice. I was just sitting there, thinking about my life and the things going on. I felt I had gotten pretty screwed up for such a young age.I could see my VW camper, my home for the weekend, parked a few miles away, . But at the same time, I was aware that my home was back in Long Beach, California. And a natural koan came to me: Where is home? All of a sudden, I had a kind of breakthrough. I felt myself fall away, and I became one with the cosmos, one with the universe, one with all things. I knew in that moment that wherever I am, that is home; home is everywhere. I also knew who I was, beyond description, but let’s call it Big Mind. That experience completely changed my life.[5]}} More descriptions of "spontaneous kensho" can be found throughout the Zen-literature,{{refn|group=note|Sekida gives the example of a woman, who's "strong internal pressure (gidan) never stopped knocking from within at the door of her mind, demanding to be resolved [...] One day, when she was about to take a bath, a certain change occurred in her. Although this was later confirmed as kensho by a teacher, she had no idea what it was.{{sfn|Sekida|1985|p=138-139}} Philip Kapleau describes a man who had kensho, which was explained as a "conversion experience" by psychiatrists.{{sfn|Kapleau|1980|p=52}} Flora Courtois gives an extensive account of her spontaneous kensho,{{sfn|Maezumi|2007|p=111-136}} on which Yasutani comments.{{sfn|Maezumi|2007|p=137-140}}}} Alternate accounts{{POV section | talk=Jiyu-Kennett and Dzogchen Edits |date=December 2018}}Houn Jiyu-Kennett, a 20th-century Soto Zen Oshō,[6] i.e. "priest" or "teacher," and the first Western female Zen priest, had a prolonged religious experience{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=145}} in the 1970s, including a series of visions and recalling past lives, when she was severely ill. She regarded these experiences as "a profound kensho (enlightenment) experience,"{{sfn|Osto|2016|p=65}}{{sfn|Ford|2006|p=143-144}} consituting a third kensho,{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=145}} and published an account of these visions, and an elaborate scheme of stages of awakening,{{sfn|Ford|2006|p=143-144}} in How to Grow a Lotus Blossom.{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=145}}{{sfn|Kennett|1993}} Her interpretations, which parallel Christian mysticism,{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=155}} were controversial,{{sfn|Ford|2006|p=143-144}}{{sfn|Morgan|2004|p=2014}}{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=145}} and rejected by some as makyo ("illusion").{{sfn|Osto|2016|p=65}}{{sfn|Morgan|2004|p=2014}} According to Jiyu-Kennett, such experiences are not uncommon,{{refn|group=note|According to Kay, "Kennett’s visionary experiences – and also her ambivalence about the status of their content – are not unprecedented within the Zen tradition."{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=149}} Soto literature includes numerous accounts,{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=149}} as noted especially by Faure (2001) Visions of powere.{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=149}}{{sfn|Faure|2001}} described by the founders of Soto Zen, Dogen and Keizan.{{sfn|Faure|2000}} See also Williams (2005){{sfn|Williams|2005}} and Bodiford (2008).{{sfn|Bodiford|2008}} Yet, Dogen and Keizan "also both warned against seeing visions or unusual spiritual experiences as the goal of practice."{{sfn|Watson|0000|p=14}}}} but are rarely spoken of; she regarded publishing her own experiences as a way to acknowledge the existence and validity of such experiences, which, according to her, may contribute to further insight after initial awakening.{{sfn|Kennett|1993}}{{sfn|Greenwell|2002|p=52-53}} She acknowledged the risks and potential for controversy in publishing her account, but felt that the benefits of releasing such information outweighed the risks.{{sfn|Kennett|1993}} Training towards kenshō{{See also|Zen#Zen practice|l1=Zen practice}}According to Harris, working towards kensho is usually a lengthy process stretched out over years or even decades.{{sfn|Harris|2004}} Contrary to this, Victor Hori notes that with koan-study kensho may appear within six months. {{sfn|Hori|1994|p=29}}{{refn|group=note|Houn Jiyu-Kennett, a western sei-kyoshi{{sfn|Bluck|2006|p=66}} or soto-priest, also is reported to have attained kensho after six months of tarining in a Soto-monastery.{{sfn|Bluck|2006|p=65}}}}Sōtō tends towards a gradual approach, preferring to let the experiences happen on their own. Rinzai tends toward the use of Koans as a technique to unroot the habitual workings of the mind.{{sfn|Kasulis|2003}} During intensive zazen various hallucinations and psychological disturbances may arise. These are referred to as makyo. Distinguishing these delusions from actual kensho is the primary function of the teacher, as the student may be erroneously convinced they have realized kensho. RinzaiIn the Rinzai school, kensho is seen as indispensable: {{quote|At some point in time we pass from imprisonment in ignorance and delusion to a true vision of Zen realization: "Our enlightenment is timeless, yet our realization of it occurs in time." According to this belief experiencing a moment of awakening in this life is of central importance.{{sfn|Lachs|2012|p=4}}}}In the Rinzai-training, the student is expected to pour oneself totally into both koan-study and daily activities 'to become one' with it.{{sfn|Hori|2000|p=290}} Kenshō is used to describe the first breakthrough in kōan study.{{sfn|Baroni|2002|p=188}}{{refn|group=note|See {{sfn|Satomi|1993|p=106}} for a description of 'becoming one with'.}} SōtōContemporary Japanese Sōtō downplays the importance of kenshō, due to the sectarian rivalry with Rinzai, which emphasizes kenshō. Nevertheless, kenshō also has its role in Sōtō. The "genjo-koan", or the "koan of everyday life" which "appears naturally in daily life",{{sfn|Dogen|year unknown}} is emphasized. Students are not encouraged to actively seek out kenshō experiences. In Sōtō practice kenshōs "are allowed to occur naturally, as a by-product of practice. Meditative training is seen as the unfolding of one great kenshō:{{sfn|Harvey|1990|p=275-276}} {{quote|According to the tradition of Soto Zen, although working on a koan is one way of attaining kensho, the best way is zazen. Indeed, Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen, expounded that zazen itself is enlightenment, and as long as the adept maintains a pure state of non-thinking in Zen, he is a Buddha.{{sfn|Kit|2002|p=145}}}}According to Brad Warner, in the Sōtō school there are two kinds of awakening.{{sfn|Warner|2009|p=28}} One is the practice of shikantaza, which is the "actual enlightened activity of the Buddha".{{sfn|Warner|2009|p=28}} The other is the accumulation of little bits of understanding, which come together, giving way to a deeper intuitive knowledge.{{sfn|Warner|2009|p=28-29}} Sanbō KyōdanKenshō also plays a central in the Sanbō Kyōdan, a Japanese Zen organisation which played a decisive role in the transmission of Zen to the United States.{{sfn|Sharf|1995c}} Yasutani, the founder of the Sanbo Kyodan, was disappointed about the lack of interest in kensho in the Soto school. Yasutani's emphasis on koan training and the importance of kensho was transmitted to his American students:{{sfn|Sharf|1995c}} {{quote|He was especially vocal concerning the point of kenshō, seeing one's true nature. He spoke more openly about it then anyone of his times, going so far as to have a public acknowledgement of those who had experienced kensho in a post-sesshin ceremony of bowing in gratitude to the three treasures.{{sfn|Jaffe|1979}}}}It is also reflected in the inclusion of a relative great amount of kensho stories in "The Three Pillars of Zen", written by Philip Kapleau, a student of Yasutani.{{sfn|Kapleau|1989}} Training after kenshō{{See also|Sahaja}}After kensho, further practice is needed to attain a natural, effortless, down-to-earth state of being, the "ultimate liberation", "knowing without any kind of defilement".{{sfn|Low|2006|p=37-39}} Further practice{{See also|Ten Bulls}}Zen Buddhist training does not end with kenshō. Practice is to be continued to deepen the insight and to express it in daily life.{{sfn|Sekida|1996}}{{sfn|Kapleau|1989}}{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=91}}{{sfn|Maezumi|2007|p=54, 140}} According to the contemporary Chan Master Sheng Yen: {{quote|Ch'an expressions refer to enlightenment as "seeing your self-nature". But even this is not enough. After seeing your self-nature, you need to deepen your experience even further and bring it into maturation. You should have enlightenment experience again and again and support them with continuous practice. Even though Ch'an says that at the time of enlightenment, your outlook is the same as of the Buddha, you are not yet a full Buddha.{{sfn|Yen|1996|p=54}}}}And the Soto Zen Master Jiyu-Kennett: {{quote|One can easily get the impression that realization, kenshō, an experience of enlightenment, or however you wish to phrase it, is the end of Zen training. It is not. It is, rather, a new beginning, an entrance into a more mature phase of Buddhist training. To take it as an ending, and to "dine out" on such an experience without doing the training that will deepen and extend it, is one of the greatest tragedies of which I know. There must be continuous development, otherwise you will be as a wooden statue sitting upon a plinth to be dusted, and the life of Buddha will not increase.{{sfn|Jiyu-Kennett|2005|p=225}}}}To deepen the initial insight of kensho, shikantaza and kōan-study are necessary. This trajectory of initial insight followed by a gradual deepening and ripening is expressed by Linji Yixuan in his Three mysterious Gates, the Four Ways of Knowing of Hakuin,{{sfn|Low|2006}} and the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures{{sfn|Mumon|2004}} which detail the steps on the Path. Seitai choyoPost-awakening practice is called seitai choyo, the "long nurturing of the sacred fetus".{{sfn|Hori|2006|p=145}}{{refn|group=note|According to Kraft, one of the earliest expressions of this term is found in a 5th-century Chinese translation of the Prajnaparamitra Sutra on Benevolent Kings Protecting Their Countries.{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=41}} In Chán-texts the term is first used by Mazu (709-788), and in Japan it was introduced by Dogen who learned it from his teacher T'ien t'ung Ju-ching (1163-1228).{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=41}} See also Muso Soseki, Dialogues in a Dream translation, translated by Thomas Yuho Kirchner, for its meaning and application.}} According to Spiegelberg, {{quote|[I]t means a return to the purely secular life, a complete submersion in work and in the changing events of the world. Thus, for decades, many Zenists, after their awakening, went among the people, living among beggars and leading an existence of hard physical labor. Thus it was proved whether or not the truth received was of permanent value, or whether it would vanish among mundane affairs.{{sfn|Spiegelberg|1957}}}}During the T'ang-era, the term became associated with the ideal of the recluse who leaves the world.{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=41-42}} An ideal period of "twenty years" was taken for it, echoing a story from the Lotus Sutra about a prodigal son who wandered in poverty for twenty years before returning home.{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=42}} References to these twenty years are found throughout the Chán-tradition, for example Linji, who is reported to have studied under Huang-po for twenty years,{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=42}} and Daito, the founder of Daitoku-ji, who famously spent twenty years living under a bridge with beggars.{{sfn|Kraft|1997|p=42}} Cultivating bodhicitta{{See also|Bodhicitta|Karuṇā}}According to Hakuin, the main aim of "post-satori practice"{{sfn|Waddell|2004|p=xxv-xxvii}}{{sfn|Hakuin|2004|p=33-34}}{{sfn|Hisamatsu|2002|p=22}} (gogo no shugyo{{sfn|Hori|2006|p=145}} or kojo, "going beyond"{{sfn|Hori|2006|p=144}}) is to cultivate the "Mind of Enlightenment",{{sfn|Hakuin|2004|p=33}}{{sfn|Yoshizawa|2009|p=41}} "benefiting others by giving them the gift of the Dharma teaching".{{sfn|Hakuin|2004|p=34}}{{refn|group=note|Shinkichi Takahashi: "After satori, teach."{{sfn|Takahashi|2000|p=165}}}} According to Yamada Koun, "if you cannot weep with a person who is crying, there is no kensho".{{sfn|MacInnes|2007|p=75}} According to Kay, {{quote|The intuitive realisation of Buddhahood requires an attitude of selflessness and faith in one’s inherent enlightenment. Meditative awakening, or wisdom, forms only part of this realisation that must also manifest itself through acts of compassion and love.{{sfn|Kay|2007|p=129}}}}According to Barry, regarding Hakuin's practice after awakening, {{quote|Post-satori practice for Hakuin meant finally ceasing to be preoccupied with his own personal condition and attainment and to devote himself and his practice to helping and teaching others. Finally, at long last, he realized that true enlightenment is a matter of endless practice and compassionate functioning, not something that occurs once and for all in one great moment on the cushion.[7]{{refn|group=note|See also Katsuhiro Yoshizawa, The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin, pp.41-45, "Constant practice of the Four Universal Vows".{{sfn|Yoshizawa|2009|p=41-45}}}}}}Self-purification and intellectual understandingOne also has to purify oneself by ongoing practice,{{sfn|Low|2006|p=33-34}}{{sfn|Glassman|2007|p=54}} since {{quote|Kensho does not eradicate our unhealthy habits [...] There is a sudden awakening to the fact of "no-self" and then this insight has to be integrated into one's life which means that it has to be embodied and not just be a memory.[8]}}And "experience" has to be supplemented by intellectual understanding and study of the Buddhist teachings;{{sfn|Hori|2000|p=295-297}}{{sfn|Low|2006|p=35-37}}{{sfn|Kim|2007|p=115}} otherwise one remains a zen temma, a "Zen devil".{{sfn|Hori|2000|p=297}} Sudden insight{{Main|Subitism}}Kenshō is described as appearing suddenly, upon an interaction with someone else, at hearing or reading some significant phrase, or at the perceiving of an unexpected sound or sight.{{sfn|Dumoulin|2005b}} The idea of "sudden insight" has been hotly debated in the history of Zen. It became part of the Traditional Zen Narrative in the 8th century.{{sfn|McRae|2003}} Chinul, a 12th-century Korean Seon master, emphasized that insight into our true nature is sudden, but is to be followed by practice to ripen the insight and attain full Buddhahood. The contemporary Korean Seon master Seongcheol opposed this, emphasizing "sudden enlightenment, sudden cultivation". But Jiyu-Kennett, a contemporary western teacher, warns that attaining kenshō does not mean that a person is free from morality, the laws of karma, or the consequences of ones actions.{{sfn|Jiyu-Kennett|1979|p=51}} This warning is reflected in the Wild fox koan. Mushi-dokugo and mushi-dokkaku{{Main|Mushi-dokugo}}Kenshō may be attained without the aid of a teacher,{{sfn|Sekida|1985|p=138-139}} as in the case of mushi-dokugo{{sfn|Faure|2000|p=48}} or (mushi-)dokkaku, a self-awakened pratyeka-buddha.[9] Though the literal meaning is self-awakened or awakened on one's own, the emphasis in Zen, when using these terms, lies in the ultimate reliance on one's own insight, instead of the authority of a teacher: {{quote|It is awakening that is one's true master. With Shakyamuni, the awakening was his master. In other words, the awakened self is one's master. Apart from getting awakened to that master, there is no awakening. Here practitioner and master are of one body, not two. Instead of having another verify or confirm one's awakening, one does so for oneself. Of course in this case the self that is verified and the master who does verification are undivided. In their being completely identical is the autonomous, independent, or ultimate nature of the authenticity.[10]}}Similarities with other traditionsWhile the Japanese term "kenshō" is generally used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism, the insight it refers to is not limited to Japanese Zen Buddhism, or even to Buddhism in general.{{sfn|Lathouwers|2000}}{{sfn|Grimstone|1985|p=13}} Theravada{{Main|Theravada|Vipassana|Vipassana movement}}The Theravada tradition, which is best known in the west through the modern Vipassana movement, discerns four stages of enlightenment, in which Nirvana is being reached in four succeeding sudden steps of insight. Dzogchen{{Main|Dzogchen|Rigpa}}An analogy given by Dzogchen masters is that one's nature is like a mirror which reflects with complete openness, but is not affected by the reflections. Rigpa is the knowledge that ensues from recognizing this mirror-like clarity,{{sfn|Namdak|2006|p=97}} which cannot be found by searching nor identified.{{sfn|Third Dzogchen Rinpoche|2008|p=152}} One knows that there is a primordial freedom from grasping his or her mind.{{sfn|Namdak|2006|p=144-145}} Advaita Vedanta{{Main|Advaita Vedanta|Neo-Advaita}}In Advaita Vedanta moksha is attained by jnana, insight-knowledge. In Shankara's philosophical synthesis insight samadhi is used as a subsidiary to this goal. Swami Vivekananda emphasized the experience of nirvikalpa samadhi as a means to validate religious, transcendental knowledge.{{sfn|Comans|1993}} See also{{div col}}
Notes1. ^Denshi Jisho – Online Japanese dictionary 2. ^Hanyu Da Cidian 汉语大词典, vol. 10, p. 314. 3. ^Quote DB 4. ^Japanischer Buddhismus in Amerika. Chronik Ab 1970 5. ^1 Big Mind: An Interview with Genpo Roshi {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701071517/http://kripalu.org/article/313/ |date=2014-07-01 }} 6. ^Seikai Luebke, Why Are Roshi Jiyu Kennett’s Disciples So Reclusive? {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621093423/http://sweepingzen.com/why-are-roshi-jiyu-kennetts-disciples-so-reclusive/ |date=2018-06-21 }} 7. ^Barbara O'Brien, What Is Enlightenment? And How Do You Know When You've "Got" It? 8. ^Gerry Reply by Gerry Shishin Wick 9. ^Kyosho. The Awakening Gong. No.350, September/October 2011. Pages 14-15 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628090745/http://www.sanbo-zen.org/kyosho_350_e.pdf |date=2013-06-28 }} 10. ^Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, On Mutually Going Into The Matter Of Self References{{reflist|20em}}SourcesPrinted sources{{refbegin}}
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