What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances... the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.
The Laughing Buddha: Zen and the Comic Spirit (ed. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004) - ISBN: 9781592444953