Zen in Japanese Culture

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 one world and all one being oneself and you're it. Once you know that then you have completely abolished all the problems that arise as a result of feeling that you're a stranger in the world. This whole sense of estrangement foreignness to the world is overcome in zen. Japanese culture is extraordinarily ritualistic there is a right way of doing everything a good form a proper style.