People give names to persons and things, and then suppose that if they know the names, they know that which the names refer to. - Keiji Nishitani

From the perspective of Buddhism, Sartre’s notion of existence, according to which one must create oneself continually in order to maintain oneself within nothing, remains a standpoint of attachment to the self – indeed, the most profound form of this attachment – and as such is caught in the self-contradiction this implies.

Previous ideals and values undermine themselves and collapse into nothing precisely as a result of the effort to make them consummate and exhaustive.

In the religiosity of Zen Buddhism, demythologization of the mythical and existentialization of the scientific belong to one and the same process.