“[It is often said] that Zen lacks a personal God…
“[Hugo M. Enomiya-Lasalle] argued that this would mean that God’s mercy is limited if God ‘cannot help when people do not say 'you' even though they do their best, or he does not want to help.’ It also seemed to Lasalle that the discussion ignored the experience of Christian mystics who testified to experiencing God as both personal and impersonal.”