Morgan Samuel Price. âMorgan Samuel Price is among the best of the true plein air painters of todayâ¦â writes Jean Stern PhD., Museum Director for the Joan Irvine Smith Museum of California Impressionists.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Satori. Satori is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, comprehension; understanding. It is derived from the verb satoru. In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to the experience of kenshÅ, seeing into one's true nature. Ken means seeing, shÅ means nature or essence.. Satori and kenshÅ are commonly translated as enlightenment, a word that is also used to translate bodhi, prajna and buddhahood.
It is commonly pointed out that hara-kiri is a vulgarism, but this is a misunderstanding. Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing.he practice of committing seppuku at the death of one's master, known as oibara (è¿½è¹ or è¿½ãè¹, the kun'yomi or Japanese reading) or tsuifuku (è¿½è¹, the on'yomi or Chinese reading), follows a similar ritual. The word jigai (èªå®³) means suicide in Japanese. The usual modern word for suicide is jisatsu (èªæ®º) .