Zen and other religions, feminism, Feng-shui, fashion, astrology, and other similar “beliefs” are trendy nowadays. Lately all these seem to strangely fashionable. Perhaps because people don’t like the reality they live in and try to find somewhere to hide or some way of translating what happens to them.

All these trends, give us a specific kind of way of how we should act and what we should think. Feng-shui tells us where we should put our plants, zen what kind of stones we should wear, feminism if we should wear sexy skirts or not, fashion if we should wear black this season, our horoscope if we should ask for a raise today, religion if it is a sin to have sex on Monday, and so on and so forth.

But Zen, for example is a really old religion and has nothing to do with all the hocus-pocus they sell us today. It is a school of Buddhism, that has to do with meditation and a certain way of life, which has nothing to do with our “western” way of upbringing and living, so we can’t really understand it. It’s like trying to learn how to dance traditional Greek music, you may make it, but you will seem rather funny to the people who really know how to do it.