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is indivisible.
It is a sudden illumination -- just like lightning -- everything suddenly in one experience, in a single, unitary experience. That is both the first and the last, the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega.
These are all the tricks of the intellect to divide. The intellect can understand this much -- that this is not ultimate. But the mind is not ready to believe that not even superficial experiences have happened to it. It is a trick of the mind. The mind says, 'I know I have not arrived absolutely, but I am on the way, arriving. I have covered a few steps -- a few more have to be covered. I have a little truth. It may not be the final truth, but a little truth, a fragment.' But truth is not a fragment.
Truth is like a circle. A half circle is no circle at all. It is not right to call it a half circle. Circle means circle; there is no half to it.
[The visitor debates: I can see what you're saying -- the spontaneity of enlightenment. But the word 'satori' in Japanese doesn't exactly mean final enlightenment.]
I'm not talking about satori at all.
... I'm not talking about a satori at all, because if the satori is true, it is final. If it is just mental, a dream experience, then you can call it anything else. If a satori is true, it is samadhi.
If a satori is just psychological -- there are psychological satoris; they are not more than hypnotic states, they are self-hypnosis. You can create an illusion of satori for yourself. You can read, you can think about, imagine, and you can have a feeling that you have attained to something. But if it is true, it is final. There is no going back.
That's why in indian experience we don't have any word for satori. We don't have any word for satori; Buddha has no word for satori. If the truth is there, it is samadhi. Satori is, in the japanese terminology, a glimpse of the truth -- which is not possible because truth happens only when you are not. You cannot have a glimpse of it.
If you can have a glimpse of it, that means truth can happen when you are there; that is impossible. If the ego is there, truth cannot happen. If the truth happens,
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