Zen Is................................?

Shoshin1

Zen is.........on the tip of my tongue (and tends to reside in the empty space between word & thought)

Zen is....................?

how

32 dots followed by a question mark.

how

Zen is the transcendence of anyone's conditioned responses to phenomena.
is what zen practitioners do when they have nothing better to do.
is going, going, always going on, always becoming buddha.
is a word to make a book title sound interesting.
is the ever widening of heart and mind.
is a oneness of body and mind.
is a path into selflessness.
is a sum of no thing.
is an ego diet.
is not this.
is this.
is?
?
.

Jeffrey

Lots of meditation. Soto as just sitting and Rinzai as sitting and then figuring out the response to the koan. Also it's at the back of the dictionary.

lobster

Tee Hee

Zyzzyva is the last word in my dictionary (its a weevil) ... oh wait you mean past the back cover even. There is nothing there ... not even a dot or words.

Wait ... I think I hear bells ... oops ... nothing

Shoshin1

@lobster said:

Wait ... I think I hear bells ... oops ... nothing

You're a right ding dong at times @lobster

lobster

@Jeffrey said:
Lots of meditation.

I knew it!
https://www.dailyzen.com/journal/shikantaza

Kerome

What meditation? Zen is just sitting. Or is it a half moon to point at?

Steve_B

................................ mysterious

  ................................  intriguing

lobster

@Kerome said:
What meditation? Zen is just sitting. Or is it a half moon to point at?

🙏🏿

Shoshin1

Zen is what it is and as always been ...Words might give it a passing glimpse, but can never truly capture it..

A Passing Glimpse

I often see flowers from a passing car
That are gone before I can tell what they are.

I want to get out of the train and go back
To see what they were beside the track.

I name all the flowers I am sure they weren't;
Not fireweed loving where woods have burnt

Not bluebells gracing a tunnel mouth
Not lupine living on sand and drouth.

Was something brushed across my mind
That no one on earth will ever find?

Heaven gives it glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close.

~Robert Frost~

ajhayes

@Kerome said:
What meditation? Zen is just sitting. Or is it a half moon to point at?

Do you look at the moon or the finger? Is the moon or the finger even there?

Maybe Zen just is. Maybe Zen just isn't.

Vimalajāti

@Shoshin1 said:
Zen is....................?

Correct.