What's the difference between enlightenment and satori?

Enlightenment


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
  • (2) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
  • (3) Society now takes a more enlightened, community-based approach for people like my daughter.
  • (4) The study was aimed at the enlightenment of intracortical spreading mechanisms in focal epileptic seizures produced by local application of Acetylcholine.
  • (5) Surjit S Bhalla, a Delhi-based consultant and former World Bank economist, said the British decision was "enlightened".
  • (6) With careful and enlightened use, pesticide toxicity, to both man and the environment, could be significantly reduced.
  • (7) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
  • (8) These data provide further enlightenment regarding the mechanisms of the well-preserved functional capacity noted in these patients.
  • (9) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
  • (10) In the time of enlightenment more and more people thought, that very much cases of suicide were committed in severe illness.
  • (11) Possible causes have to be seen in long time of hospitalisation (average = 304 days), and apparent inadequate enlightenment of patients and in functionally and cosmetically insufficiencies.
  • (12) Our purpose is to enlighten the central position of competence in cognitive structures and coping systems of the patients.
  • (13) in 1991, French philosophy enjoyed a golden age akin to classical Greece or Enlightenment Germany.
  • (14) I haven't felt this enlightened since extraordinary rendition.
  • (15) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
  • (16) Daud Naji, an Enlighten Movement leader, said on Sunday that they had been told only that there was a “heightened risk” of attack and had subsequently cancelled nine of 10 planned routes.
  • (17) Beverage price increases were regarded to be the least effective approach by nurses and clerical employees, while physicians felt that the press was the least likely source of enlightenment.
  • (18) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
  • (19) But then the dislocations and traumas caused by industralisation and urbanisation accelerated the growth of ideologies of race and blood in even enlightened western Europe.
  • (20) Had English rulers taken a more enlightened view of gender issues they might not have got into such a mess.

Satori


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Coker’s lawyer said he had multiple sources of income and had always declared his interest in Satori Holdings to the Nigerian authorities.

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