What do you mean by “what is?” [laughs]. “What is satori?” is a very difficult question to figure out what kind of answer you expect. I explained it in various ways because there is no other way than to give various kinds of answers to your question. Various kinds of answer should be prepared from a scientific viewpoint, or a psychological viewpoint, or a religious viewpoint. We cannot say what satori is just from one viewpoint.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-31 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.
