In other words, it involves living in accordance with one’s limitations to articulate and understand things in any absolute sense and living more off intuition and spontaneity. Paradoxically, in the attempt to define Zen, you have already incorrectly defined it. Alan Watts said that “Zen is trying to point to the physical universe so that you can look at it without forming ideas about it.” Instead of saying life is this or that, Zen says life is unclear and always changing, at least in terms of words and ideas. This is to say that the universe is not to be packaged or structured in some human
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