Satori
Zen term for the experience of awakening. The word derives from the verb satoru, "to know;" however, it has nothing to do with "knowledge" in the ordinary or philosophical sense...
...because in the experience of enlightenment there is no distinction between knower and known.

--- The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen
Michael H. Kohn
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