One scholar and Zen practitioner, David Loy, echoes these remarks.
During the 1980s he lived in the East Bay, and collaborated with poets, Zen practitioners, and ecologists.
Before and after practicing zazen, Zen practitioners perform a gassho bow to the zafu, to fellow practitioners, and to the teacher.
Zen practitioners will often have a sanzen, where the student has a face to face interview with their master.
I had helped with the publication of a book by Paul Reps, a Zen practitioner, who called his books picture poems.
Kōans collectively form a substantial body of literature studied by Zen practitioners and scholars worldwide.
ISBN 978-0-465-08079-3 This book contains examples of how some Zen practitioners answer the koans "correctly".
In fact, many community members are Zen practitioners, and there are members who are not formally engaged in a traditional Buddhist tradition.
In his foreword, Jung highlights the enlightenment experience of satori as the "unsurpassed transformation to wholeness" for Zen practitioners.
Today it is often memorized by Zen practitioners in East Asian countries.