Jesus and the Maintainance of Zen

There seem to be some fascinating parallels between following Jesus and following Zen. I have heard it put that the goal of Zen, not unlike that of Stoicism, is to gain control of your inner self. To do so, you must realized that "everything is nothing" and then re-engage with reality from that point. It seems to me that the desire is for security and control, with the hope that this can be accomplished entirely within oneself, without recourse to some power from the outside.

Does not the Gospel hold forth a greater promise? In Zen, security seems to come from insecurity: seeing that nothing lasts, nothing matters, you therefore realize that nothing can threaten you, as you have nothing to lose. This depends very greatly on your own ability to control yourself and your inner life. In Christ, security come from insecurity, as well, but in a very different way. Rather than hoping and having faith in yourself and your own power, you instead turn to One who has all power and found your security on Him. From this vantage, you see eternity: you live on that which lasts forever, everything matters, but nothing can threaten you because, in Christ, you have everything. A greater security holds you.

In Zen, all of life is to be lived as if there is no reality, all of life is nothing. Zen therefore demands a hyper-awareness of your life in order to subject everything to non-reality. In Christ, all of life is worship. Christians, like adherents of Zen, must be hyper-aware so that they may subject everything in worship to Christ. Rather than deny reality to engage with it properly, we deny ourselves to engage in reality for the purpose of worship.