Zen
     
        [Kehoe, B., "Zen and the Art of the Internet", February 1992.]
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
     

zen
     
         To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden
        flash of enlightenment.  Originally applied to {bugs}, but
        occasionally applied to problems of life in general.  "How'd
        you figure out the buffer allocation problem?"  "Oh, I zenned
        it."
     
        Contrast {grok}, which connotes a time-extended version of
        zenning a system.  Compare {hack mode}.  See also {guru}.
     
        (1996-09-17)