From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishZenZen /zen/ (also Zen Buddhism) noun [uncountable] RRBa kind of Buddhism from Japan that emphasizes meditation
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Zen• There's always a Zen part of my personality that wings it through life.• Some movies have a Zen of shelf life -- they grow on you after repeated viewings.• She had big blue eyes but her hair wasn't fair like Carrie and Crystal and Zen.• In fact she did the drawing part and she had the ideas and Zen kept pestering and eventually he just went stamp.• Like Zen meditation, sensory awareness is not a teaching but a practice...• His spare but beautiful clothes put the audience in a meditative Zen state.• But then one Friday night when I was unpacking all my things I started up an argument with Zen.Origin Zen (1700-1800) Japanese Sanskrit dhyanam “watching” 