Zen Garden 🧘‍♂️ Zen: the essence in one line Zen is the practice of seeing reality directly, without distortion, through meditation, presence, and insight into your own true nature. Everything else — temples, robes, koans (a riddle), rituals — is secondary to that core. 🌿 1. What Zen means The word Zen comes from the Chinese Chan, which comes from the Sanskrit dhyāna, meaning meditative absorption. So at its root, Zen is not a belief system — it is a mode of awareness. Zen