A. The core of Zen is not how to change, or how to avoid what happens to you and how to wait for what is happening to you to pass, but how to enjoy it by changing your perspective. The Buddha said that we sentient beings are floundering in the ocean because we cannot see things as they are.
He said that we create illusionary images and that we spend our lives chasing, or running away from them. In short, we are being deluded by illusions created by us. Zen meditation helps people to realise that all things we pursue, or try to avoid, are not real but illusionary.
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