Zen from buddism focuses on meditation. Zen monks clearly belive that truth cannot be expressed completely through language. Language can only communicate your thoughts but not your fealings or those that you realize. Truth is not just a thought it is realizing the reality. Yes...all languages are handicapped...they cannot communicate COMPLETE truth. This is why any Zen monk do not mostly preach, instead they make them think and act. According to them, the best language to communicate the truth is silence.
There are a lot of Zen stories. When you read it for first time, it may look like a joke, incomplete story or sometimes even you may feel an irrelevant one. Once you start thinking on it, you may start understanding that it has something great behind it. Each who read this story interpret it in different way. Zen stories are for enlightenment. Any interpretation that makes you enlightened is the right one.
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