Word: satori
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bars and deep-throated chanting of sutras by a monk with a drinking party later. But there was one variation in the ancient rite: a large still of Marilyn from The Seven Year Itch in front of the altar. In that setting, Marilyn's delight might even suggest satori...
...hope seems so facile as to be ludicrous. Lindsay Anderson said last month that he had no clear conception of exactly how the ending event grows out of the film's plot. But he said that, in his mind, the ending was tied in with Buddhist notions of satori enlightenment being achieved by being hit over the head...
...plausible idea for a film, perhaps, but not this film. Satori as the balloons float down? Malcolm McDowell said he had no idea that this was what Anderson had in mind. The film may have been doomed from the start: Anderson could not make a comedy, yet McDowell's original idea was clearly unsuited to the mammoth parable Anderson conceived...
...ALMOST GLIMPSES self-pity in Don Juan in this farewell speech. He is not offering his disciple nirvana, only the dignity of living and dying as a man. The road of a warrior is a lonely road. A warrior carries no baggage save his private nostalgia. Don Juan's satori is both liberating and irreversible...
OSWALD SPENGLER ONCE SAID that a sure sign of the decline of the West would be its increasing preoccupation with religiosity rather than religion. Today, with pop monstrosities like Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway, Jesus freaks on the cover of Life, and cheap return tickets to Zen Satori available only Saturday night, we seem to be substituting an elaborate facade of images and facile spiritualism for any real commitments to spiritual growth. Our culture seems to be providing more and more channels for what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called "cheap grace," personal fulfillment, or the illusion of it, with no trial...