The ancient masters of Zen stressed the absolute necessity of Satori.
Every creature is an expression of the field phenomenon that I refer to as 'Pristine Awareness'. Pristine Awareness is the 'I AM' of all life, but this universal 'I AM', has in the process of self refinement, naturally produced the 'I am' of creature hood. Pristine Awareness finds itself integrated from the womb of nature with a full compliment of responses adequate to the needs of the animal, and humans are no exception: we are ruled by nature.
It appears to me that the entire event of life forms, from the earliest single celled organisms to hominids, is the effort of the Universe to know its Self. What I have referred to as the awakening of Pristine Awareness is what the ancient masters called Enlightenment, and this awakening is no less than the denouement of all the effort that the universe has put into knowing its Self. And this is where Satori comes in.
The field phenomenon of Pristine Awareness comes on board fully integrated with the lesser field of animal mind and innocently accepts as its Self the selfness common to the animal which is its vehicle of expression. Satori is the explicit moment, strikingly self event, of dis integration
Satori is that moment in the sands of time when one has crossed the storm tossed ocean of nature and awakens into a sea of light. As if awakening from a hypnotic trance Pristine Awareness has come to its Self, and is no longer an integrated element of animal selfness. The hypnotized slave has awakened as master.
The waves are the water. We are the waves. We are the water. In a split second, like flicking a light switch, we have come home to where we were all along.
This is Satori
