Satori generation

Satori generation (さとり世代, Satori Sedai) is a Japanese language neologism used to describe young Japanese who have seemingly achieved the Buddhist enlightened state free from material desires but who have in reality given up ambition and hope due to macro-economic trends.[1] The term was coined around 2010,[2] and generally refers to Japanese people born from 1987 through 2003 in the midst of the Lost Decades. The generation is also known as Shinjinrui Junior (新人類ジュニア世代).

The Satori generation are not interested in earning money, career advancement, conspicuous consumption, or even travel, hobbies and romantic relationships; their alcohol consumption is far lower than Japanese of earlier generations.[2] They live in a period of waithood and are NEET, parasite singles, freeters or hikikomori.

The Satori generation in Japan share characteristics with the N-po generation in South Korea,[3] and the Tang ping (躺平 “lying flat”) phenomenon in China.

See also

General:

References

  1. ^ The Satori generation Archived 2018-05-01 at the Wayback Machine adbusters.org
  2. ^ a b Michael Hoffman, Life is too short for an undesirable satori Japan Times, 2013/03/31
  3. ^ Beatrix Tan, SATORI GENERATION: THE NEW-AGE ENLIGHTENED STOICS OF JAPAN Archived 2017-12-06 at the Wayback Machine RGNN, November 23, 2015
  4. ^ Diener, Michael (1994). The encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion : Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber, Stephan Schuhmacher, Gert Woerner (1st ed.). Boston: Shambhala. p. 308. ISBN 0-87773-433-X. OCLC 18051472. Satori: Jap.; Zen term for the experience of awakening (enlightenment). 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.
  5. ^ Keown, Damien (2003). A dictionary of Buddhism. Stephen Hodge, Charles Brewer Jones, Paola Tinti. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 256. ISBN 0-19-860560-9. OCLC 59361180. Satori...In Japanese Zen Buddhism an intuitive apprehension of the nature of reality that transcends conceptual thought and cannot be expressed through 'words and letters.'
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