Zen is essence of Christianity, of Buddhism, of culture, of all that is good in daily life of ordinary people. All beauty, all music, all religion, all poetry, is dancing of the mind. Without this dancing of the spirit, there is no true Zen.
What is Blyth ZEN ? Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly, ・・・ Reginald Horace Blyth said at the beginning of the chapter 'Culture and Zen' in his Twenty-One Zen Essays, published by the Hokuseido Press in 1962. What is Zen? Zen originated in India, developed in China together with Taoism, and came to Japan as sort of third-hand thing, something which the Japanese themselves did not create. Yet it is Zen in Japan that is Zen at its best, at its most living, most human, and above all, most poetical. according to Blyth, Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly, hesitating perfectly, having stomachache perfectly, doing anything, perfectly or imperfectly, PERFECTLY.