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  • noun sumo prize money given to encourage rikishi by sponsors

Etymologies

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Japanese

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Examples

  • When you hear that so and so has experienced satori or kensho or become a stream-winner or has insight or seen the nature of mind -- whatever -- they seem to be the same person to you.

    Ken McLeod: What Is Enlightenment? Ken McLeod 2011

  • When you hear that so and so has experienced satori or kensho or become a stream-winner or has insight or seen the nature of mind -- whatever -- they seem to be the same person to you.

    Ken McLeod: What Is Enlightenment? Ken McLeod 2011

  • Mystery handler experiencing puppy-induced kensho.

    NADKC Northeast Derby Prüfung 2008 2008

  • Mystery handler experiencing puppy-induced kensho.

    More spacecraft on spacecraft action 2008

  • Austin believes that the Zen kensho experience, according to Austin an experience of reality “as it is in itself,” is an experience with (relatively) shut down neural activity.

    Mysticism Gellman, Jerome 2005

  • The Rotrovra Koan Kangaroos had just scored their first all-in kensho, and the Targenville Half-Lotus Lions replied with a double-satori.

    Progressive Bloggers The Skwib 2010

  • The Rotrovra Koan Kangaroos had just scored their first all-in kensho, and the Targenville Half-Lotus Lions replied with a double-satori.

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader Mark A. Rayner 2010

  • And he describes how, after the extraordinary, deep states of kensho-satori strike off the roots of the self, a flash of transforming insight-wisdom leads toward ways of living more harmoniously and selflessly.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

  • (grounded though it be in long suffering and frustration) of one's intrinsic identity with everything (Zen's kensho), occurring at the moment of ego-death (the allegorical death of the man from the country).

    Notes on 'Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites' 2007

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