Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?