39 Enryō went through a process of intellectually verifying things for himself through reading and contemplation. which had originated in Greece. For Enryō this was an investigation of the question “What is truth?” He arrived at the belief that philos-ophy is the standard for truth. I devoted all of my energy to the study of philosophy, and spent long years trying to discover the bright moon of truth in it. I had been longing for and suffering over for more than a dec-ade did not exist in Confucianism, Buddhism, or Christianity. lumbus discovered land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It first time. I felt as though my brain had been refreshed and the inside of my head had been washed clean. Enryō was the sort of person who would not accept anything unless he was personally convinced. Therefore, even though he learned about Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity as a young man, he did not hold any of them to be true. He learned that the truth was to be found only in Western philosophy. Long were the days he spent worried and suffering as if there were a cloud inside him, but one day, suddenly, it cleared and his doubts were dispersed. Having discovered truth within philosophy, Enryō says that after reviewing the old religions from that perspective he found that only Enryō came to understand the essence of Western philosophy, Then one day, I had a great realization. I realized that the truth The truth was only in the philosophy that is taught in the West. My joy at that moment was immeasurable. It was like when Co-was as if the decade-long cloud of confusion opened up for the
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