Kensho is the Zen experience of waking up to one\'s own true nature--of understanding oneself to be not different from the Buddha-nature that pervades all existence.
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If a person who has not achieved kensho says he is a follower of Zen, he is an outrageous fraud.
In his autobiography he says: "Anyone who would call himself a member of the Zen family must first achieve kensho-realization of the Buddha\'s way.
The Japanese Zen Master Hakuin (1689-1769) considered the experience to be essential.
Kensho is the Zen experience of waking up to one\'s own true nature--of understanding oneself to be not different from the Buddha-nature that pervades all existence