When The Bible Encounters The Gateless Barrier

There is a long way, annoying and wishing to avoid, but at the same time and unavoidable and fruitful, that might be leading the faithful from an anxiety for going astray on our own path of belief to hope for reciprocal learning that the mutual change and growth through dialogue with religious other can occur. How we can learn from the faith of the other, how both sides can change and grow mutually? We can get help from interreligious dialogue accompanying an intrareligious dialogue, being often reiterated by the “apostle of interreligious dialogue” Raimon Panikkar, which is inner dialogue within ourselves. However, we often hear more talk about controversy regarding interreligious dialogue itself than actual dialogue. Here I attempted to dialogue within myself by questioning myself and reflecting on my daily life, getting help through both the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola and The Gateless Barrier of the Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai: two different traditions have shed rays of new light on my daily life, and have helped me to arrive at a better understanding of the heart of both Jesus and the Buddha