"3. Authoritativeness. By this I mean that the knowledge realized by satori is final, that no amount of logical argument can refute it. Being direct and personal it is sufficient unto itself. All that logic can do here is to explain it, to interpret it in connection with other kinds of knowledge with which our minds are filled. Satori is thus a form of perception, an inner perception, which takes place in the most interior part of consciousness....So, it is generally said that Zen is like drinking water, for it is by one's self that one knows whether it is warm or cold."
D. T. Suzuki
Zen Buddhism
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