"禅 - zen / Zen　友 - yū / friend, companion, ally, supporter
When practising Zen meditation, it takes some time to realize the changes and benefits of the practice. Sometimes, the time spent sitting can feel like a misuse of time in a busy life. Sometimes, the most difficult thing is to keep doing it. For practising Zen monks, it is compulsory to spend many hours sitting in zazen in the monastery’s Zen meditation hall (the zendō) with the other monks. This discipline of sitting with others allows monks to break through the most difficult stage of gaining continuity. But the zendō is a very special environment. One thing that will help you to gain continuity is simply to sit with someone else.  commonplace."Somewhere in the world, at this very moment, there is someone just like you who is trying to explore something through Zen meditation. Knowing this can push us forward. You don't have to be in the special environment of the Zen training hall. In fact, through online technologies, we don't even have to be physically present with another person. You can sit with others whilst still sitting by yourself. And once you spend time sitting together, whether in person or online, you have found yourself a ‘ZenYou’. For those who are going to try sitting in the future, or for those who have tried zazen previously but have fallen away from it, the door is always open. Zen meditation is not a special technique only for religious leaders or monks. It is a skill that everyone in the world can learn and freely use as a tool of life. I envisage a world where such a scene is commonplace."