In accordance with Buddhist tradition he called it "Nothingness" and sought to derive the individual reality of everything in the world, whether it be a thing or a self, from the supreme identity of Nothingness.
I can give just a taste: for his fellow émigré Eliot's "impotence, which he communicates to the whole country, surrenders itself to every order which is old enough, seeks to prevent every enthusiasm, a debauchee of nothingness, pale imitator of Hegel, desecrator of Dante (to which region of Hell would Dante have consigned him?), thin-lipped, cold-hearted, old before his time".
Thus he propounds that Nothingness or mu is the universal that is to be sought behind the predicate as the universal concept and, at the same time, is the abyss of Nothingness in which the self as the individual is crystalized.
From 1968 he served for seven years while, amid this and continuing work, he sought another monastic residence, in America - described in A Glimpse of Nothingness (1975).
A person can feel separated from the sacred, feel nothingness where presence was possible or expected, or abandonment where love was sought.
He often sought to return oppositions and distinctions to the non-differentiated condition that underlies them, ultimately to the nothingness that gives rise to (or determines itself as) various distinctions.
The nothingness thrills me.
"Nothingness is the rule.
Nothingness is not neutral.
Thoughts swirled, bursting into nothingness.
