OQEI TOE

 this context, the Advaita and Zen experiential spiritual quest can be said to be similarly framed. Both traditions posit an ontological quest through epistemological investigations based on a theory of error. That is, the core operational assumption of both traditions is that our experience of reality is obscured or hindered by conditioned ontological boundaries and epistemological

                

filters that we habitually mistake for reality itself. Hence, the ‘goal’ of spiritual practice in these traditions is to disclose these mistaken ontological and epistemological categories to the practitioner and to ‘undo’, ‘see through’ or deconstruct erroneous ontological objectifications and epistemic reifications that obscure or distort what tradition claims to be ‘reality-as-it-is’.