Thomas Merton's voice

I read this morning from Thomas Merton's Asian Journal...

...Filled with every possibility, questioning nothing, knowing everything, rejecting nothing, the peace not of emotional resignation but of ...sunyata...(emptiness)....buddhas see through every question without trying to discredit anyone or anything---without refutation---without establishing some other argument.

He was knocked over with a rush of relief and thankfulness at the obvious clarity of these figures...