Fully integrated maturity of the "enlightened self."

In other words, we begin to divine that Zen is not only beyond the formulations of Buddhism but it is also in a certain way "beyond" (and even pointed to) by the revealed message of Christianity. That is to say that when one breaks through the limits of cultural and structural religion - or irreligion - one is liable to end up, by "birth in the Spirit," or just by intellectual awakening, in a simple void where all is liberty because all is the actionless action, called by the Chinese will Wu-wei and by the New Testament the "freedom of the Sons of God." Not that they are theologically one and the same, but they have any rate the same kind of limited limitlessness, the same lack of inhibition, the same psychic fullness of creativity, which mark the fully integrated maturity of the "enlightened self." The "mind of Christ" as described by St. Paul in Philippians 2 maybe theologically worlds apart from the "mind of Buddha" - this have not prepared to discuss. But the utter "self-emptying" of Christ – and the self-emptying which makes the disciple one with Christ in his kenosis – can be understood and has been understood in a very Zen-like sense as far as psychology and experience are concerned. Zen and the birds of appetite Thomas Merton (The study of Zen)