A publisher recently asked me to write a book about Zen meditation just forty or fifty pages long.
Perfect, I said. You can spend a lifetime learning all the subtleties about Zen meditation, but a beginner can learn how to do it in five minutes.
Zen means simple and Zen meditation is the simplest form of meditation. Forest Zen is the simplest path of all the paths to Zen and that is the path of the Zen Forest.

How do you meditate, here I asked on my first visit to the Zen Forest.
The monk who created the Zen retreat gave me a blank look.
I’ve been taught different ways, I said. Some say to sit like this, hold your hands like that, with your fingertips touching and the tip of your tongue at the roof of your mouth. » Read more: Free Medicine For the Mind – Zen Meditation