Pure Experience and the Logic of Basho

“To experience means to know facts just as they are, to know in accordance with facts by completely relinquishing one's own fabrications. [...] Pure experience is the state in which there is not yet a subject nor an object. [...] There is only the experience, the eating in eating, the drinking in drinking, the laughing in laughing, the crying in crying. Every experience is the self-awakening of Emptiness. [...] Absolute nothingness is not mere absence. Rather, the topos of absolute nothingness is the paradoxical state in which all individual entities are unique and separated, and yet they are one, mutually unhindered and interfused. It is an infinite sphere with no circumference and no fixed center; its center can be found everywhere. — Nishida Kitarō, An Inquiry into the Good (1911); Logic of Basho essays (1920s–30s); reconstructed in Open Horizons (Kyoto School), thezensite.com, Global Critical Philosophy (2025)”