Lost in Place: Nearing Homelessness as Boundless Emptiness of Mind

This essay brings together the perspectives of phenomenology and East Asian philosophies through an engagement with Dōgen, Heidegger, Nishida, and Nishitani to address the concept of place in relation to the concept and feeling of homelessness . With respect to the notion of dwelling and finding one’s place in the world and with oneself, the experience of being and feeling lost psychologically will be considered as a way ( dao ) toward overcoming nihilism and as an opening to attaining an awakened mind.