btw, you're making the analogy as if "Zen" were a religion – it is not
Startups using the word Zen are just creepy in a cultural appropriation kind of way. It's like "I Can't Become a Buddhist", by Adrienne Su:
because I grew up vaguely Methodist
and most of the Buddhists
I know are men who turned Buddhist
.
after finding the religion
in a prepubescent
girl serving prawns and chicken
.
in coconut milk, steamed sticky rice,
papayas, and a massage for the price
of a subway token. Because they drive
.
cars bearing FREE TIBET bumper stickers
but would let their neighbors wither
and starve. Because they slither
.
up and down the supermarket aisles
waiting for the chance to ask girls
like me Where are you really from? while
.
stocking up on mung beans and swelling
with the memory of that excellent
backrub in the hands of a thirteen-
.
year-old goddess who's probably dying
or dead or working for Nike at a dime
a sneaker. Because their renouncing
.
is pointed, because all they ever wanted
was to be different and Buddhism planted
the seed of a new Me in a stunted
.
self-image. Because they insist on roaming
the city in off-white robes, deflecting
the sun's hot gaze, saffron being
.
too conspicuous and white being too damned
unprofound and likely to be sandwiched
between red and blue in a crowd of Americans.