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James Broughton has said: 'Zen is another word for Zest.
For zip and zap and zing. If you have no appetite for life as
it is, and are not excited by the koan of what this here life is
about, then Zen is not for you.'

Yes, I agree with James Broughton: 'Zen is another word
for Zest, living life passionately, making life a joy, a festival,
a feasting, a love, a laughter – yes, he is right – 'for zip and
zap and zing. If you have no appetite for life as it is, and
are not excited by the koan of what this here life is about,
then Zen is not for you.'

If you are trying to attain something in the other world then
Zen is not for you and I am not for you. If you are trying to
reach heaven, sacrificing this life, renouncing this life,
condemning this life, then Zen is not for you and I am not
for you...

--Osho
Zen: Zest, Zip, Zap, and Zing, ch. 1

Broughton, James
1913-1999 86 years

American author, filmaker, poet...

based in California, West Coast

part of the "beat generation" artists, created experimental
and avante garde type films of the beat/hippie/new age
culture

considered himself a "pansexual"-- married to woman at
49, homosexual lovers

died in Port Townsend, WA, and buried there.