God, at least in western Christian culture, is usually pictured as a celestial being that looks like us, has a range of emotions and, if sufficiently supplicated, intervenes in our daily affairs. Zen, a Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism that aims at enlightenment by direct intuition through meditation, is an experiential practice. The Zen of God is a journey to transition God from some external, narrowly defined object into a broadly experienced concept that will allow us to see the divine in everyone we meet. The object is not to confine God with a “new” definition but rather to share your experiences of the holy so that others may meditate on them and experience the holy in a new way. In this way, we might all become the Zen of God.

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