Zen

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Zen（禪）

            Modern characters are transformed from ancient pictographic characters. Each character can be explained by the elements composing these characters.  Zen is written as “禪” in Chinese character and can be separated into “礻” and  “單”. There are two ways to explain this character:

If we separate “禪” (Zen) into “礻” and  “單”; “礻” is a short form of “示”, “示” means “to show/display or reveal”. “單” means single/pure and simple. These two characters combined together means show yourself or show your simplicity to non-self and this practice is called Zen (禪).