Transcendent

 
For the transcendent personality all walls are doors, and the whole world is a gate. This is the secret of Zen, which reveals how differently the east and the west view the mystery of life. The occidental, seeking for salvation, has been taught that the gate which leads to eternal life is small and narrow; difficult to find.

The Zen priest believes that the gate which leads to eternal life is so broad that it is no gate at all. It is everywhere. All life is forever flowing through it. It is the ‘gateless gate.’

Man cannot find it because he cannot realize that space itself is the doorway to eternity. He is looking for a small door through life, when life itself is the doorway. The transcendent personality goes and comes through the 'gateless gate,’ gradually revealing through the life he lives, the life that is living him.

~ Manly P. Hall