Toward a philosophy of Zen Buddhism / Toshihiko Izutsu

Zen experience defies all thinking and linguistic description and simply affirms what is evidently real: "The ordinary way-that precisely is the Way." After questioning the nature of reality, the Zen student discovers that what remains is what is. Although it seems that Zen would not lend itself to philosophical discussion, that all conceptualization would dissolve in light of this empiricism, in this volume, the author demonstrates that the "silence" of Zen is in fact pregnant with words.