Can anyone tell me what Zen means to them?

Zen is being a participant/observer in life. It acknowledges that you exist in environments, and that you affect those environments while at the same time they act on you. By practising Zen the differentiation between you and your environments is lessened to the point where you exist in perfect accord with them. This is achieved through attaining knowledge and wisdom, by observation and contemplation, and participation and action.

It's a Zen 'koan", an important concept in Zen Buddhism. A koan is an idea that is impossible to understand with your rational mind, but you can think about it and imagine. In this way you empty your mind of 'noise'. Sitting quietly and reflecting on a koan is like meditating. If it makes you giggle, then actually it's working! If you concentrate on the question, after you're done giggling you will do some thinking! Revelations come in all forms. 8^)

Zen is when you feel alright with the world. When little things don't bother you. When you can take a deep breath and enjoy it. When you can look at the world and see beauty instead of how messed up it really is. Zen is being okay with the flow of life.

Zen (Ch'an), the roots of which are found in the Satipatthana Sutta, the most important sermon on meditation preached by the Buddha himself, emphasised realisation by personal effort rather than reliance on study of the scriptures which are externally based and related more to the experiences of others.

Eric Zurcher, in his article in "The World of Buddhism" describes Cha'an thus: "It holds that the universal 'Buddha nature' is immanent in ourselves and must be realised 'directly', in a mind to mind communication between the master and disciple, without relying on canonical texts or rational theorising. To effect this, all reasoning must be broken down; hence the characteristic use of unconventional means to evoke in the disciple the sudden and 'wordless' experience of Enlightenment: perplexing meditation themes, paradoxes, baffling answers; even yelling and beating are used to let 'the bottom of the tub fall out' and to plunge the practitioner into a state of 'no-mind'. In this state no distinction is made between the holy and the profane, between the religious career and the simple tasks of everyday life: the Highest Truth is contained in carrying water and chopping firewood."

To me, Zen is a calm mind but a ferocious spirit. I've had my moments of Zen doing almost anything.

zen means buddha, and Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism notable for its emphasis on practice and experiential wisdom—particularly as realized in the form of meditation known as zazen—in the attainment of awakening. As such, it de-emphasizes both theoretical knowledge and the study of religious texts in favor of direct individual experience of one's own true nature.

It's a form of Buddhism where good works and study are of little merit, but enlightenmenat can be achieved by comtemplating riddles, calming the mind, or working and focusing on the arts, such as music, poetry, calligraphy, and so forth.

A major school of Buddhism originating in 12th-century China that emphasizes enlightenment through meditation and insight

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it is the name of my cars model. apart from that, it is a three alphabet word.