The Fascination of Zen

The fascination of Zen to the West is that it promises a sudden insight into something that has always supposed to take years and years and years. But when this artist Hasagawa was asked how does one see into Zen he said it may take you thirty years, I mean that. There is always the possibility that it may take only three seconds. And that of course would be the daoist principle of woo way of action in the spirit of not being separate from the world.