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This culture of non-Being developed in the Far East with the important points varying from country to country. In India it was mostly intellectual and philosophical; in China, realistic and practical; and in Japan, philosophical and emotional. Zen linked up with these various cultural characteristics as it spread. It is difficult to define Zen. Defining it would mean limiting it. This would not go with Zen, because it is rooted within the person. The nature …

…so far. The belief that "all things have no selfhood" is supported by the Buddhist teachings of common belief and impermanence. It grew into the ideas of “Buddhahood” and of the “Tathagata-garba.” Buddha-nature is the position for becoming the Buddha. Nature provides the basis for enlightenment and the ultimate view of human dignity. Buddha-nature is the true self that appears when we lose ordinary individuality. To penetrate to the true self is to gain enlightenment.