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Satori
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satori

satori (sä-tôr´ê, -tor´ê, se-) noun
Buddhism.
A state of spiritual enlightenment sought in Zen Buddhism.

[Japanese.]

Zen enlightenment, characterized by sudden, all-encompassing vision or complete understanding, as a result of a breakthrough from mediation. It lies beyond discrimination and differentiation and may endure from a mere intuitive flash to the eternal Void itself. Called No-Thought or No-Mind, it is considered the beginning of Zen training, the end of which is complete Non-Duality.

We've learned to distrust the verb TO BE, the world is - let's say rather: note the striking resemblance between the concept satori and the concept REVOLUTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE - in both cases: a perception of the "ordinary" with extraordinary consequences for consciousness & action.  We can't use the phrase "is like" because both concepts (like all cross concepts, all words for that matter) come crusted with accretions - each burdened with all its psycho-cultural baggage, like guess who arrive suspiciously overly well-supplied for the weekend.

So allow me the old-fashioned Beat-Zennish use of satori, while simultaneously emphasizing - in the case of the Situationist slogan - that one of the roots of its dialectic can be traced to dada & surrealism's notion of the "marvelous" erupting from (or into) a life which only SEEMS suffocated by the banal, by the miseries of abstraction & alienation.  I define my terms by making them more vague, precisely in order to avoid the orthodoxies of both Buddhism & Situationism, to evade their ideologico-semantic traps - those broken-down language machines!  Rather, I propose we ravage them for parts, an act of cultural bricolage.  "Revolution" means just another turn of the crank - while religious orthodoxy of any sort leads logically to a veritable government of cranks.  Let's not idolize satori by imagining it the monopoly of mystic monks, or as contingent on any moral code; & rather than fetishize the Leftism of '68 we prefer Stirner's term "insurrection" or "uprising," which escapes the built-inn implications of a mere change of authority.

 - Hakim Bey - _TAZ_ 

604 entity Satori
Member: Peter Martin (Avatar, Radiation, Slide, UX)

• release _Back to Earth E.P._ 12" with tracks _Back to Earth/Normal Existence?_ by Satori on Matsuri Productions
• sample: "Big question now is, can we make it back to earth?"
• release _Razor_ 12"  on Sirius 1996
• release _Liquid Sky/Entropy_ 12"  on Sirius 1996

• IDM track _Satori_ MP3 (160k) by B12 off of _Electro Soma_ CD on Warp #009 (1993)

• In March of 1982, proto-goth band Bauhaus released the EP _Searching For Satori_
• _Satori_ MP3(ed2k128k)
• track _Strobe-Nanafushi (Satori Mix) - Elements Pris De Nanafushi (Tesuro Naito), Toki No Koe (Eiichi Saito)_ by Kodo off of Kodo CD

• track _Satori In Paradise_ MP3 by Nazca Nine
• tribal ambient track _Satori_ MP3 (vK) by Death Ambient off of _Synaesthesia_ CD on Tzadik (1999)
• track _Cory & The Mandara Suicide Pyramid Action Or Gas Satori_ by The Boredoms off of _Pop Tatari_ promo CD on Reprise (1992)

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