"The supreme realization of the original nature of mind neither affirms nor negates any conceptual point of view; hence it does not need language for expression. One can exhaust the resources of language and still would not express ultimate Chan. This is because Chan transcends knowledge, symbols—the entire apparatus of language. You may call Chan “emptiness,” but it is not emptiness in the nihilistic sense, of “there is nothing there.” You may call it “existence,” but it is not existence in the common sense, of “I see it, so it must be there.” It is existence which transcends the fiction of our sensory world of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and form. Yet, Chan is never apart from them, and is one with our everyday world. It is innate to all beings, everywhere, at all times."