Ha the dreaded questions!

Ha the joy of being asked the question what is Zen!?!?!? Or what is Buddhism etc...

I guess my answer to this is always different but pointing to the same thing NOTHING. There have been times that I will go on trying to explain and others when asked what is Zen my answer was simply NOTHING MUCH TO CARE FOR!

Coming from my firm belief that all that could be said was already said by previous masters about the subject and babbling and making comment about it is pretty much useless. Here is the third case of the Chun Chou record written by a Student of Zen the Zen master Huang-Po named P'ei Hsui.

Before I share with you this part let me introduce you to Huang-Po for the one who are nit familiar with him yet.

Taken from Wikipedia link   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_po

Huángbò XÄ«yùn (simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运 traditional: 黄檗希運 Wade-Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün; Japanese: ÅŒbaku Kiun) (died 850^[1]) was an influential Chinese master of Chan Buddhism. He was born in Fujian, China in the Tang Dynasty. Huángbò was a disciple of Baizhang Huaihai (720-840) and the teacher of Linji Yixuan (d. 866) (Wade-Giles: Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: Rinzai Gigen).

If you are interested in learning more about Huang Po I suggest the following book.

Blofeld, John, 1958, The Zen Teachings of Huang Po On the Transmission of Mind, Grover Press, New York, ISBN 0-8021-5092-6

Here we go with case #3 of this record. I will not comment on this case since I truly feel nothing more can be said.

3. Mind is like the void in which there is no confusion or evil, as when the sun wheels through it shining upon the four corners of the world. For, when the sun rises and illuminates the whole earth, the void gains not in brilliance; and, when the sun sets, the void does not darken. The phenomena of light and dark alternate with each other, but the nature of the void remains unchanged. So it is with the mind of the Buddha and of sentient beings. If you look upon the Buddha as presenting a pure, Bright or Enlightened appearance, or upon sentient beings as presenting a foul, dark or mortal-seeming appearance, these conceptions resulting from attachment to form will keep you from supreme knowledge, even after the passing of as many aeons as there are sands in the Ganges. There is only the One Mind and not a particle of anything else on which to lay hold, for this mind is the Buddha. If you students of the way do not awake to this Mind substance, you will seek the Buddha outside yourselves, and you will remain attached to forms, pious practices and so on, all of which are harmful and not at all the way to supreme knowledge.