What testimonial do we have of this gap, of this abyss which appears so intangible to us ? Can’t we find in it a place for this void which fills our physical world, for this nothingness that our entertainment conceals, for this oblivion that our memory tries to discard, for the nihilism invading the soul of the poet or the philosopher who seeks the path of his own self-overcoming ?
We attest the negativity within us when, as the expression goes, we empty our mind, when we forget our immovable self and move to awaken to ourselves, to our abyssal reality, where arises our creative force, that impels us from passive to active state. When I is no more producted, it becomes the place of a production. Practical and poietic expressions of this awakening, where no being can be offered to the exhilaration of intuition anymore, allows for the occurrence of a perfect gesture, intuition from within action, that can be manifest in the fields of martial arts, and visual arts.

Michel Dalissier :
Nishida Kitarô : le philosophe, sa pensée, et ses enjeux, 2007.