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Satori 悟 jap.: satori, chin.: wù. Enlightenment. Awakening to the true understanding in Zen-Buddhism. The word 悟 (chin.: wù, jap.: satoru) means originally "to understand".

Satori in Paris[?] (ISBN 0802130615) is also the title of a book by Jack Kerouac.

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