"6. Impersonal Tone. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Zen experience is that it ahs no personal note in it as is observable in Christian mystic experiences....Father, God, the Son of God, God's child, etc. We may say all of these terms are interpretations based on a definite system of thought....alike in India, China, and Japan, satori has remained thoroughly impersonal, or rather highly intellectual.
Is this owing to the peculiar character of Buddhist philosophy? Does the experience itself take its colors from the philosophy or theology? Whatever this is, there is no doubt that in spite of having some points of similitude to the Christian mystic experience, the Zen experience is singularly devoid of personal or human colorings."
D. T. Suzuki
Zen Buddhism
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