What Is Zen?

TRY if you wish. But Zen comes of itself. True Zen shows in everyday living, CONSCIOUSNESS in action. More than any limited awareness, it opens every inner door to our infinite nature. 
Instantly mind frees. How it frees! False Zen wracks brains as a fiction concocted by priests and salesmen to peddle their own wares. 
Look at it this way, inside out and outside in: CONSCIOUSNESS everywhere, inclusive, through you. Then you can't help living humbly, in wonder. 

"What is Zen?" 

One answer: Inayat Khan tells a Hindu story of a fish who went to a queen fish and asked: 
"I have always heard about the sea, but what is this sea? Where is it?" 
The queen fish explained: "You live, move, and have your being in the sea. The sea is within you and without you, and you are made of the sea, and you will end in the sea. The sea surrounds you as your own being." 

Another answer:

when i "read" the second answer i literally threw the book down on the ground in total disbelief. i've known about the "answer of no-answer" for a long time, but until you actually see it in action you can't understand it. i was in total shock, all i could say for 5 minutes straight was "o my god, o my god, o my god..." it blew my mind.

The state induced by reading this was very similar, if not identical, to the state depicted in the movie Constantine when she says, "I've always known. I've always known where they are. I've always known where to - where to find them, where to - where to aim and where to duck, and I've always known where they were. I've always known that it wasn't luck. Always known that it wasn't luck. I've always known, I've always known that I could see."