All Rights Reserved Permission is hereby granted for any publication in electronic form. For Zen Zen is popular as a form of Buddhism that emphasizes the act of meditiation, and the untying of our preconceptions through the consideration of special mental puzzles, called koans.
Koans are often in the form of stories.
Here are some of my observations on and in Zen. Zen was uncovered when the rising tide of Buddhism washed up the Indian teacher Bodhidharma on the Chinese shore of Taoism. The awakening of spiritual awareness is to choose to see God in action in your life as it is and has been, and not just as you would like it to become. Some think of spiritual awareness as a retreat from a load too great to bear by oneself. But such awareness only comes as a result of greater and greater discipline of thought.