The emptiness of Zen Buddhism... creates a neighborly nearness between things.

Emptiness simply prevents what is individual from insisting on itself.

Emptiness empties the one seeing into what is seen.

Enlightenment is an awakening to the everyday.

The huge laugh is a most extreme expression of freedom.

Zen Buddhism is inspired by a basic trust in the Here, a basic trust in the world.

At the deepest level, the desire for complete union with God exhibits a narcissistic structure.

...I pray to God to make me free of God.

God is nothingness: He is 'beyond all speech.'

...Zen Buddhism, this religion of immanence.