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Satori
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This book is based on Shibumi by Trevanian.

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A Novel Based on Trevanian's Shibumi

by Don Winslow (Author) (edit contributors)

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Trevanian's Shibumi was a landmark bestseller, and one of the classic thrillers of the 20 th century-now Don Winslow returns with the prequel, SATORI. It is the fall of 1951 and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary... read more

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  • “"Satori" was the Zen Buddhist concept of a sudden awakening, a realization of life as it really is. It came not as a result of meditation or conscious thought, but could arrive in the wisp of a breeze, the crackle of a flame, the falling of a leaf.”
    Nicholai Hel
  • “He had started studying "naked kill" during his second year in Tokyo. The rarefied form of karate - which itself means "empty hand"...”
    Nicholai Hel
  • “There is no point building a wall when the gatekeepers can be purchased.”
    Nicholai Hel
  • “But like all traps...the way out is never back the way you came.”
    Nicholai Hel
  • “When tigers fight, one is killed and the other is mortally wounded.”
    Nicholai Hel
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  • Never consider the possibility of success—consider only the impossibility of failure.
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  • Satori was the Zen Buddhist concept of a sudden awakening, a realization of life as it really is. It came not as a result of meditation or conscious thought, but could arrive in the wisp of a breeze, the crackle of a flame, the falling of a leaf.
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  • You cannot find enlightenment, you can only be open to it finding you. That’s satori.”
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  • all suffering comes from attachment, that we are prisoners of our longings and desires that keep us bound to the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth. He knew the Buddhist belief that these longings make us take negative actions—sins, if you must—that create and accumulate bad karma that must be ameliorated through the lifetimes, and that only enlightenment can free us from this trap.
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  • “Satori,” Xue Xin repeated. Then he added, “If our thoughts imprison us, it stands to reason that they can also set us free.”
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  • “When one chooses to fight,” the abbot replied, “it is one’s responsibility to fight well.”
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  • When one is prepared to die, that is settled. There is then only the action to consider. Think then only of success, because failure will take care of itself.
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  • “Satori. To see things as they really are.”
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  • But Otake-san had taught him that very often not taking a risk was more dangerous than taking one.
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  • the old saying that “a liberal is a man who will not take his own side in an argument,”
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  1. Don Winslow (Author)

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