The Zen school of Buddhism has always advocated living in the present with complete awareness of everything. In fact, the practitioners of Zen try to experience each moment directly. They don't let thoughts, memories, fears or hopes get in the way. They simply try to be aware of everything they see, hear, feel, taste and smell. This is what one can call the perfect state of mindfulness.

A Zen practitioner tries to be completely aware of whatever he/she is doing at a given moment. The attempt is to unite the self with the activity. For example, when they are at work, it is only work they focus on. Similarly, when they meditate, they give their full attention to it without letting any outward thoughts make their presence felt.

Zen encourages thinking, especially discursive thinking. But Zen also points out that once acknowledged, thinking /thoughts should be put to one side in order to avoid the mind from getting carried away by worries, anxieties, and endless hopes and fears.

This amounts to liberation from the defilements of the mind and the suffering of the mind. As a result we can easily see the truth of this vast, unidentifiable moment in a very plain and elaborate manner.

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