What is Zen

 Writing by Wang, Wen-Shiung

Zen (Meditation) is the balance of your mind with mindfulness of enlightenment.

There are four unlimited states of mind that the zen practitioner should cherish. They are compassion, tenderness, gladness and equanimity. One can remove greed by cherishing and equanimity, one can remove anger by tenderness; one can remove suffering by gladness, and one can remove the habit of discrimination of enemies by cherishing an equitable mind. 

The mind with mindfulness of enlightenment is just like adjusting the harp string. You can not attain enlightenment if you stretch the strings of your mind too loosely or too tightly.  You must be considerate and act wisely.

When you are doing that be compassionate.

When you are compassionate that be tender.

When you are own something that is glad to cherish.

When you are practice cherishing, you can feel that you own something and happy.

We practice it start from sitting, cut off the worries and devote ourselves to the practice. Also we have to have walked meditation.

With care one may cherish these Four unlimited States of Mind and may get rid of greed, anger, suffering, and the mind of of love-hate, but it is not easy thing to do. An evil mind is hard to get rid of as a watchdog, and  a right mind is as easy to lose as a deer in forest; or an evil mind is as hard to remove as letters caved in stone, and  a right mind is as easy to lose as words written in sand. Indeed, it is the most difficult thing in life to train oneself for the stage of mindfulness of Enlightenment.