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Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Zen, like the other forms of Buddhism, aims at the perfection or realization of personhood. To this end, sitting meditation called “za-zen” (坐禅) is a foundational method of prāxis across the various schools of this Buddha-Way—which is not an ideology, but a way of living. Through za-zen the Zen practitioner attempts to embody non-discriminatory wisdom vis-à-vis the meditational experience known as “satori.” A process of discovering wisdom culminates, among other things, in the experiential apprehension of the equality of all thing-events without discrimination. The most distinguishing feature of this school of the Buddha-Way is its contention that wisdom, accompanied by compassion, is expressed in the everyday lifeworld when associating with one’s self, other people, and nature. By contrast, the everyday lifeworld for most people is an evanescent transforming state in which living is consumed, philosophically speaking, by an either-or, ego-logical, dualistic paradigm of thinking with i

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