Experience over Intellectualizing

"Buddha-nature cannot be grasped by the intellect. To experience it directly you must search your mind with the utmost devotion until you are absolutely convinced of its existence, for, after all, you yourself see this Buddha-nature. When I told you earlier that Buddha-nature was ku - impersonal, devoid of mass, unfixed, and capable of endless transformation - I merely offered you a portrait of it. it is possible to think of Buddha-nature in these terms, but you must understand that whatever you can think or imagine must necessarily be unreal. Hence there is no other way than to experience the truth in your own mind."

Philip Kapleau, Zenji Dai Osho