At the university he became a devout Buddhist, and was torn between the Buddhist teaching that "everything is nothing" and government's concern for the teeming masses.
在大學裡，許信良還一度醉心佛學，在政治﹘﹘紛紛擾擾的眾人之事﹘﹘和「一切皆空」的佛學間難以取捨。