Meditation and study are necessary requisites, but the great difficulty in conversing about Zen is that Zen is not a mere reconfiguration of the way we think. Zen is not an acquired set of behavioral patterns. Zen is not a mind set or an accumulation of knowledge. Zen is not an emotional or intellectual posture. Zen is not a discipline and can not be learned.
The great difficulty in conversing about Zen is that the realization of Zen is a transformation of being that leaves one a different kind of creature than one which was born of woman.
It is like a line explaining its self to a point. It is like the sublimation of ice into vapor. It is the spiritual equivalent of the metamorphosis we see in the lives of insects and amphibians.
It is like one without arms reaching out.
The truth of Zen is invisible because it is everywhere, and the Enlightenment of Zen is simply the obvious becoming apparent.
