Abe Masao Quotes on Truth
Abe Masao was a Japanese Buddhist philosopher of the Kyoto School and the principal exponent of Zen thought in interreligious dialogue with Christianity and Judaism in the late twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Abe Masao on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Abe Masao:
“Sunyata is not nothingness; it is the dynamic emptiness from which all things arise.”
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Attributed to Abe Masao:
“Zen is the realization, not the doctrine, of one's true self.”
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Attributed to Abe Masao:
“True dialogue requires the suspension of one's own standpoint.”
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Attributed to Abe Masao:
“Self and other are mutually constitutive.”