#NishidaKitaro

“Two generations after Japan was forced open to the West, a provincial schoolteacher who had spent a decade on a Zen cushion built the first fully modern philosophy on nothingness instead of Being — and Western philosophy has been answering it ever since.”

“Before there is an "I" looking at a "world," there is pure experience — one undivided flow — and beneath everything that exists lies not Being but a "place of absolute nothingness" that lets all things appear.”