Zen is Zen

ZEN IS JUST ZEN. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique, unique in the sense
that it is the most ordinary and yet the most extraordinary phenomenon that has happened
to human consciousness. It is the most ordinary because it does not believe in knowledge,
it does not believe in mind. It is not a philosophy, not a religion either. It is the
acceptance of the ordinary existence with a total heart, with one's total being, not desiring
some other world, supra-mundane, supra-mental. It has no interest in any esoteric
nonsense, no interest in metaphysics at all. It does not hanker for the other shore; this
shore is more than enough. Its acceptance of this shore is so tremendous that through that
very acceptance it transforms this shore -- and this very shore becomes the other shore:

This very body the buddha;
This very earth the lotus paradise.

Hence it is ordinary. It does not want you to create a certain kind of spirituality, a certain
kind of holiness. All that it asks is that you live your life with immediacy, spontaneity.
And then the mundane becomes the sacred.

Ah! This

Osho