The Importance of Zen

Zen is Japanese way of pronouncing the Chinese word chan which in turn is the Chinese way of pronounce the Sanskrit word jana and jana is a very difficult word to translate into English if not impossible. We really don't have an English word for jana chan Zen but I would say that we do know what it is because we do all sorts of things every day of our lives in the spirit. The real concern of Zen is to realize not merely to think but to know in your bones that the inside world inside your skin and the outside world outside your skin going out as far as anything can go into galaxies beyond galaxies is all important.