"8. Momentariness. Satori comes upon one abruptly and is a momentary experience. In fact, if it is not abrupt and momentary, it is not satori....This abrupt experience of satori, then, opens up in one moment...an altogether new vista, and the whole of existence is appraised from quite a new angle of observation."
D. T. Suzuki
Zen Buddhism
Suzuki notes that Zen's genesis in the 7th century under Hui-neng was a result of an opposition to Shen-hsiu's doctrine of "a gradual unfoldment of Zen consciousness."
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