What is Zen?

Zen is a thirteen hundred year old spiritual system which teaches:

1. That all things come into existence interdependently. Everything is both the creator and the creation of everything else.
2. That there is no separate, independent or isolated self. There is only an interdependent beingness.
3. That interdependent beingness is the source of our innate perfection and unconditional worth or Buddha nature here and now.
4. That by living neither in the past nor future, but in the immediate present we can realize our Buddha nature. This realization is called an enlightenment experience (kensho or satori).

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