________________ 112 HAJIME NAKAMURA infinitely multiple, and probably impossible to enumerate exhaustively. But we have to proceed to identify them by ratiocination. Here we find the theoretical limitations of the mystics in East and West, although we do not minimize the merit of the thinking of mystics in the past. On the other hand, we should emphasize the significance of the theory of interrelational existence advocated by Eastern and Western mystics, especially considering the present-day situation of ideological and intellectual conflicts, which have something to do with the attitude of paying too much attention to the aspect of difference and to the confrontation between individual human beings. We are not separate beings who are absolutely irrelevant to each other, and have nothing to do with each other. In this respect this theory of the mystics of the past regains a present-day significance in the turbulent world of conflict and antipathy.
