When I read the Upanishads, I found a profundity of world view that made my Christianity seem like third grade. - Huston Smith

Hinduism's cosmology was prodigious in scope and depth, but India did not stop there. She went on to advance what was probably the most daring hypothesis man has ever conceived. We are ourselves are the infinite, the very infinite from which the Universe proceeds. Everything in Hinduism works to drive the point home.

Mystics of every faith report contacts with a world that startles and transforms them with its dazzling darkness. Zen stands squarely in this camp, its only uniqueness being that it makes breaking the language barrier its central concern.

They [Taoists] were fond of pointing out that the value of cups, windows, and doorways lies in the part of them that are not there.