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Why is it called a 'Zen curtain'?
by dorkwood 7y ago
Why is it called a 'Zen curtain'?
- mikestew 7y agoSee related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21386788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21386788 Saving you a click: because "Zen" is a marketing term meaning "calm or peaceful". Birds not slamming into glass is considered to be peaceful. Not be confused with the "Zen" of Zen Buddhism, where it doesn't mean that at all.
- foobar1962 7y ago> Not be confused with the "Zen" of Zen Buddhism... Or motorcycle maintenance.
- jascii 7y agoMany consider "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" a modern-day Buddhist parable though the author states it specifically not to be..
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt does fit with the Zen Koan sort of if described - what sort of curtains are on the outside of a window and don't block light or noise? Not quite "What is the sound of one hand clapping." meditative question but it is getting there in surface weirdness.
- twic 7y agoThis lot call it a "bird saver": https://www.birdsavers.com/buildyourown.html https://www.birdsavers.com/buildyourown.html