11 Facts About Kensho

Kensho is a Japanese term from the Zen tradition.

Kensho is an initial insight or awakening, not full Buddhahood.

Kensho is not a single experience, but refers to a whole series of realizations from a beginner's shallow glimpse of the nature of mind, up to a vision of emptiness equivalent to the 'Path of Seeing' or to Buddhahood itself.

Kensho is insight, an understanding of our essential nature as Buddha-nature, or the nature of mind, the perceiving subject itself, which was equated with Buddha-nature by the East Mountain school.

Kensho went at once to the Abbott's room and burned incense.

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Kensho acknowledged the risks and potential for controversy in publishing her account, but felt that the benefits of releasing such information outweighed the risks.

Kensho is used to describe the first breakthrough in koan study.

Kensho plays a central in the Sanbo Kyodan, a Japanese Zen organisation which played a decisive role in the transmission of Zen to the United States.

Kensho was especially vocal concerning the point of kensho, seeing one's true nature.

Kensho spoke more openly about it then anyone of his times, going so far as to have a public acknowledgement of those who had experienced kensho in a post-sesshin ceremony of bowing in gratitude to the three treasures.

Kensho is described as appearing suddenly, upon an interaction with someone else, at hearing or reading some significant phrase, or at the perceiving of an unexpected sound or sight.