An Experience of Enlightenment

by Flora Courtois

90 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1986

Reviews

[Gudrun Mouw · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, described on the cover as "A Quest Miniature" is only 90 pages, the entirety of which easily fits in one hand. The content, however, is very large indeed.

My own experiences and others I have read are beautiful verified by this account. I was also delighted by the comment: "Yet what D.T. Suzuki called 'the most startling event that can happen in consciousness' is only a beginning."

[Päivi Metsäniemi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Luin tämän pienen kirjan suomeksi, ja se oli elävä, viehättävä ja kiinnostava kokemus etsinnästä, valaistumisesta ja meditaatiosta. Kirja on ilmestynyt kauan sitten, ja taitaa olla harvinaista löytää tämän ikäisiä naisten omakohtaisia kokemuksia meditaation tiestä (ilman että ovat sitten elämäntapahöttöä).

[Keith McLachlan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Flora Courtois' experience of enlightenment was rated by Yasutani Roshi as a very clear kensho experience.

Flora Courtois had never heard of Zen when she had her experience in 1943. So this is an independent corroboration of Zen. Also, Flora communicated her experience better than even the accounts in Kapleau's "Three Pillars of Zen."

Although this book is small and very hard to find, it is well worth the search.

I can't believe some reviewers rated this with only three stars.

[Eve Lumerto · Rating 3 out of 5]

School stuff is school stuff.