“This is in Zen parlance called the no-gate barrier, or the gateless gate. Because, it looks like a gate, a barrier, something to be attained, some entrance to a special in-group, so long as you’re standing outside it. But the moment you cross the border, the gate vanishes, so does the wall. And you see everybody at all, everybody in the world, as manifestations of the Buddha nature, or we’d say in Western terms of the divine power, and you see they’re all just behaving marvelously in their ignorance.”
— Alan Watts, Future of Religion
