Most of you won't be at all interested in this, so go on about your business. If Eastern-Western dialogue is to succeed, Buddhism and Christianity have to understand each other. Buddhism is founded on NoThingNess, Christianity on the One. O and 1. The basis of the Buddhist experience and view is nothing, no thing. The basis of the Christian experience and view is something, some thing. The Buddhists have no name for the nothing, saying if and when you give it a name, it becomes a something. The Christians call the something God. What is the common ground in these world views, these experiential stances? Perhaps it will prove to be the O. Some Christian philosophers have adopted the definition of God (the Ultimate 1) as a circle with no circumference whose center is everywhere. 1 = O.
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