Multimedia Collection
Satori
VHS
30 minutes
BQ9288 .S27 1995
The students, folded in lotus position, sit. They struggle to empty their minds. They struggle to attain satori. For long and agonizing hours.
Satori is a sudden flash of intuitive enlightment - the spiritual goal of Zen Buddhism. Like the philosophy it seeks to describe, this impressionistic film follows the natural rhythm of Japanese life, which swings like a pendulum between extremes. Now peaceful, now violent - with images and sounds that alternately soothe and agitate your senses. Satori travels an un-Western itinerary. It explores the Japanese approach to life, nature and work. The camera ranges widely from the interior of a monastery to the Shintoist and Buddhist street festivals; from the Zen-based Kanrisha School of Business Management to a Shinto ceremony inside factory walls.
Satori challenges our Western way of thinking, and raises some interesting questions about our own society. It will encourage the Westerner, who lives by force of logic, to explore a more intuitive, non-rational approach. Satori may open your mind to a new way of thinking - a new way of being.
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