From Thomas Merton

It is precisely pride that prevents modern man from achieving depth, even when he most seeks it.

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The Zen man does not strictly speaking practise meditation at all, in any sense familiar to us in the West. Rather he enters into a purifying struggle against conceptual knowledge, in which he 'sweats out' his attachment to images, ideas, symbols, metaphors, analytic judgments, etc. as means for grasping, appreciating, and understanding reality.

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There is no self-display, because the 'true self', which functions in Zen experience, is empty, invisible, and incapable of being displayed.