Synonyms for Zen
zɛnzen

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1. Zen, Zen Buddhismnoun

   school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan

   Synonyms:
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2. Zen, Zen Buddhismnoun

   a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight

   Synonyms:
   battery-acid, window pane, acid, back breaker, superman, dose, dot, pane, loony toons

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   street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

   Synonyms:
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PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.5 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "zen":

   zein, chan, smooth

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1. List of known nicknames for "Zen":

   Aslı Zen Yentur, Aslızen Yentur, Zen Saluja

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1. Zak Farmer , 31:

   I want to encourage The Little Zen Monkey to be The Little Zen Monkey, to develop those muscles, people are really excited about what The Farmers're doing and that The Farmers're getting The Farmers kid outside, keeping The Little Zen Monkey active and encouraging The Little Zen Monkey to be strong as The Little Zen Monkey grows older.

2. Abraham Maslow:

   The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists -that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred- this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

3. Geoffrey Neighor:

   I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else.

4. Owen Gleiberman:

   Like Clark Gable, he (Pitt) has an aura, just an effortless zen, macho thing.

5. Zoroaster:

   He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires greater stock of religious merit than he would gain by the repetition of 10,000 prayers. Zen Zoroaster