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n. (context sumo English) prize money given to encourage rikishi by sponsors
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Kenshō (見性) is a Japanese term from the Zen tradition. Ken means "seeing," shō means "nature, essence".
Kenshō is an initial insight or awakening, not full Buddhahood. It is to be followed by further training to deepen this insight, and learn to express it in daily life.
The term kenshō is often used interchangeably with satori, which is derived from the verb satoru, and means "comprehension; understanding".
Kensho is a science fiction novel written by Dennis Schmidt published in 1979. It is the second part of four in the Kensho series of novels.
Category:1979 American novels Category:1970s science fiction novels Category:American science fiction novels Category:Novels by Dennis Schmidt
Usage examples of "kensho".
Led it to Kensho before the Power had achieved its ascendancy on Earth and destroyed all those who refused to accept the holy word of Kuvaz.
He would calmly and carefully follow the occupation plan, giving Kensho a few hours to capitulate before he attacked or landed troops.
As if there'll even be a Kensho left to fight over once they're through.
And to develop the resources meant doing things to Kensho that made him shudder with horror.
And how could he translate it into something useful, something that would help Kensho defeat a heavily armed fleet from Earth?
Arm and tear Kensho apart with our arming, then fight and lose anyway?
Here was the most fearsome killer on the face of Kensho, a creature that was in league with the Mushin, the Mind Leeches that could drive an unprepared man insane in an instant.
They were part of Totality, or the sum total of all the Mushin on Kensho, but never more than a part of that whole.
The poem, stating as it did two unacceptable choices, mirrored both the problem Nakamura had faced as well as the dilemma in which Kensho now found itself.
He and the others endlessly toiled at their impossible task of readying Kensho for the confrontation with the Earth Fleet.
I know virtually nothing of Kensho outside the 'hoods, and almost nothing about the Mushin but what I've been told.
He was still convinced the answer to the problems Kensho faced lay, somehow, in the Mind Leeches.
Maybe Kensho is nothing but a laboratory planet, a place to safely conduct dangerous experiments.
You see, in real life, on the face of Kensho, the smoothstones are scattered about at great distances from each other.
Josh always said that he felt the Mushin were the key to defending Kensho from the Earth Fleet that's on the way.