Viðtal við Ken Wilber - Listening in with … Ken Wilber Slouching Toward Satori

Another big part was my involvement with Buddhism. I studied Zen Buddhism for about 15 years and then Tibetan Buddhism for another 30 or so. In the second to third year of my Zen practice, I had a fairly strong satori or awakening experience. When that happens, you don’t see the mountain; you are the mountain. You don’t walk on the earth; you are the earth. You’re not aware of the sun; you are the sun. It’s a oneness with every single thing in existence. That’s the real purpose of Zen, and I think having that type of mystical experience is the main driver behind most of the world’s really great religions.

Satori carries with it the feeling that you’re truly getting in touch with reality. Many traditions call this the two truths doctrine, referring to relative truth and ultimate truth. The study of science gives you relative truth, but satori gives you an ultimate truth. That became part of my inspiration to tie these things together and find an approach that used both truths. I wanted to take relative truth, like psychotherapy, and fit it together with an ultimate truth, like Zen Buddhism or Tibetan Buddhism or Christian mysticism or any of those approaches that had some sort of genuinely mystical experience at their core. It struck me that science and mysticism were essentially trying to do the same thing—change your state of consciousness.

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