is a Japanese term used within Zen Buddhism, which usually denotes a "great realization or enlightenment."Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community, 209 Moreover, "traditionally, daigo is final, absolute enlightenment, contrasted to experiences of glimpsing enlightenment, shōgo" or kenshō. According to Dōgen in a fascicle of the Shōbōgenzō titled Daigo,Shaner, 132 the master Dōgen writes that when practitioners of Zen attain daigo they have risen above the discrimination between delusion and enlightenment.The Wholehearted Way, 82 Author J.P. Williams writes, "In contrast, in SG Daigo, the apparently positive 'great enlightenment' is more clearly an extension of the meaning of fugo, no-enlightenment, than 'enlightenment.'Williams, 171
See also Kenshō Mushi-dokugo Satori
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