There are many related Zen words derived from Zen, such as: Zen view, meditation, Zen mind, Zen taste, Zen style, Zen machine, Zen enlightenment, and even Zen poems and paintings, and so on.
In India, meditation can be said to be the oldest method of practice, which was popular long before the establishment of Buddhism. The Buddha established religion and established "abstinence, determination and wisdom" as the basic three studies, which is the fundamental method that every Buddhist must practice. After Buddhism was introduced into China, all the ancestors and sects in the past dynasties took meditation or Zen view as the basis of their practice and establishment.
There are many discussions about Zen among Zen masters and scholars studying Zen in ancient and modern times. Many expositions have direct or indirect influence on the psychological construction of today's practitioners.
Taiwan Province Yun Geng said that Zen is "no mind, no phase, no dwelling". No mind means that the mind is separated from likes and dislikes, trade-offs, and hatred of love, away from all the separate thoughts from the "shadow of the past", instead of abandoning mindfulness, positive thinking, and no phase, not denying all external things, but that the mind is not constrained by external things. No living means not letting your heart stay in any place, resulting in persistence. When you think about it, you will feel it, and when you feel it, you will forget it, and you will be lively and colorless.
"Beyond all realms of good and evil, the mind can't be called sitting; Seeing self-immobile is Zen. " "Outside the phase for zen, not disorderly. If you look at each other outside, your heart will be chaotic; If the outside is out of phase, the heart will not be chaotic. Nature is self-purification, and if you see the situation and your heart is not chaotic, it is true. " The sixth ancestor of Zen said so.
In the modern sense, Zen is a kind of "meditation", and meditation is used to achieve the state of meditation. The content of Zen is difficult to express in words, and it is necessary to personally prove it.
For those who have never practiced Zen, it is difficult to understand the content of Zen. Just like a person who has never seen or eaten coconut, no matter how you describe the color, shape and taste of coconut, he can't understand it unless he personally tastes it.
For those who have not yet entered Zen, Zen is something that can't be explained in words, and you can't rely on the explanation of words to understand it. But language can guide or instruct beginners how to experience it for themselves. Because the experience of Zen is "if you drink water, you will know yourself when you are warm and cold", and you must rely on your own taste.