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<blockquote>Zen teaches that this reality is sunya, meaning empty or void, inexpressible in words and inconceivable in thought. To illustrate this, the Zen masters often resorted to silence or negation to express the truth.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Zen teaches that this reality is sunya, meaning empty or void, inexpressible in words and inconceivable in thought. To illustrate this, the Zen masters often resorted to silence or negation to express the truth.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Being inexpressible and inconceivable, this reality or the Buddha-nature can only be apprehended by intuition directly, completely and instantly. Intellectual analysis can only divide and describe and scratch the surface.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Being inexpressible and inconceivable, this reality or the Buddha-nature can only be apprehended by [[intuition]] directly, completely and instantly. Intellectual analysis can only divide and describe and scratch the surface.</blockquote> | ||
Ch’en says: | Ch’en says: | ||