Are You Being Moved?
FROM CHAPTER THREE: ARE YOU BEING MOVED?
SATORI
Satori is a Japanese Buddhist term for enlightenment. The word means “understanding,” but translates as a flash of sudden awareness. A flash of sudden awareness…what would that be like? What would it be like if the universe suddenly opened up and took you by surprise?
Moments of true consciousness are usually fleeting and for the most part seem more a dream than reality. How does this happen in a single moment or happen to us at all? Is it the result of a lifelong body of work, or desire, or some random divine grace simply looking for a place to happen? Perhaps, this illumination like all illumination is a gift; a gift that the Creator wants to give, or in some way has to give.
From the poem:
A Seed is Spinning the World
“There is a seed of life expanding,
Here in God’s Waiting Room.
Your heart cradles this precious gift,
The seed in the Holy Woub.