The Satori Sanctuary

Evolution through Experience

Building Resilience through Community.

Establishing Relationship to Self, Others & the Environment as the Foundation for Life.

VISION: Co-Creating A Life Sustaining Society for All

MISSION: To Build a Sanctuary that promotes systemic change and provides safe spaces for transition through transformation.

What’s in a Name?

Satori is a term for awakening, meaning "comprehension or understanding".

In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō,

"seeing into one's true nature".

Satori, in Zen Buddhism of Japan, the inner, intuitive experience of Enlightenment; Satori is said to be unexplainable, indescribable, and unintelligible by reason and logic.

The only way that one can "attain" Satori is through personal experience. The traditional way of achieving Satori, and the most typical way taught to Zen students in the west --- but NOT the only way --- is through the use of Koans. Koans are "riddles" students use to assist in the realization of Satori; these words and phrases were also used by the early Zen masters. Even though Satori is a key concept in Zen, it should be brought to the attention of the reader that Zen and it's traditions does NOT have exclusive rights to the Enlightenment experience. That which is called Satori in Zen is a term that is wrapped around a phenomenon that "IS" and that "IS" is not "owned" by any group, religion, or sect.

Satori is just the moments of realization, that can be small but can also be profound. It all depends on what you realize.