Zen might be defined as waking up in the present. It's an experience that defies abstractions, an awakening to just this , what is here, now, and seeing it as for the first time in every moment. The present is recognized as eternity manifest as just this, as it is right now. Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions. Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun.
Meditation is the foundation of every religion.
See our meditation links above or below for more stuff and nonsense on this subject. Now for Zen it is inconceivable that the basic facts of existence should be able to be stated in any proposition however atomic. For Zen, from the moment fact is transferred to a statement it is falsified. The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing. The Catholic priest, Fr.