Zentao is a union and a transformation (everything changes) of the Zen experience and the Taoist thought.
Zentao means Tao of Zen, namely “The Path of Meditation” and represents a well-being of the body-mind that passes through both physical and mental practices (to give some examples: meditation, proper nutrition, emotional education, treatment of relaxation and toning as shiatsu or yoga).

Tao of Zen or The Path of Meditation

Zen is a Japanese word that indicates a school of Buddhism Mahayana.
Zen (禅 in Hiragana) originates from the Chinese word “Chan” (traditional Chinese 禪), which in turn derives from Sanskrit “Dhyana” (Devanagari ध्यान ) and that means both “meditation” or “light” and “awareness”.

Zen favours direct experience of reality in the present time at the expense of the irrational thought and has no faith in revealed scriptures.

Wisdom is transmitted by the example of older to younger. The experience can be personal or written. The experience must always be replicable.

Tao (道) literally means “way” or “path”.
The pinyin chinese transliteration is “dào”; in Japanese is “dō”.
Tao is the eternal and pervasive force flowing through all the universe of minds and living and not living bodies.

Tao is the symbol that represents the essential, complementary elements called Yin and Yang.

Tao is change, flowing, mutation, life, evolution.

Tao is the eternal ever-changing present.
Modern Tao can be described as the law or the force that brings out through mail-order from the chaos of the universe to go against the trend toward maximum disorder.

So to practice the Zentao (because it is not a philosophy, a theory or a religion) you can do every day things like this:

• Respect your body and respect the life of every sentient being
• live naturally loving and respecting the environment to which we belong
• prevent diseases, taking care of your body-mind constantly
• cultivate positive emotions such as love, kindness, compassion, joy, empathy, equanimity
• self-control in order to eliminate the occurrence of negative emotions as illusion, anger, desire
• focusing on the present time without thinking too much to the past and the future
• look for balance and harmony in every moment
• meditate and accept the impermanence of things
• meditate on the illusory nature of self
• forget any dualistic concept
• strive for union with the eternal present that changes

The Eternal Ever-changing Present

The 3 pillars of Zentao:

• Time does not exist except in the present. Past and future are concepts of mind.
• The only true eternity is here in the present.
• Everything is always, incessantly changing.

Looking at the 3 points in detail:

“There is only the present”: this is obvious, because the past is an idea, a concept, a state of mind without which it fades, finally, a memory. We know, but we don’t accept it, that the past can no longer be reported to the present, simply because it is immaterial. Same goes for the future in which our mind puts things still are not, and therefore do not exist. The future does not exist because it is real only when it is  realized in the present. That’s why Zentao says that the present is the only existing time. That’s why in the Way of Awareness is useful to focus only on it. 

“The present is eternal”: The experience we can do shows that the only eternal existence is the present itself. This is the result of simple observation that in the present, everything changes and transforms with no beginning and no end. The Zentao practitioner watching the world with honesty and accepting the impermanence of all its manifestations senses and reaches the knowledge that the present is eternal.

“Everything changes”: The world is flowing, moving, changing, transforming, always and constantly. Nothing, no mind, no body has a beginning nor an absolute end. Basically beginning and end, birth and death are concepts of mind, which in Zentao are treated as illusions caused by our ignorance of the world. So refusing the impermanence and the relentless dynamic of the whole is a source of immense suffering. Refuse the changing means to cling to ideas and memories away from reality and what is really important (this life in the present time). The attachment prevents the normal flow of the minds and bodies and the flow of the world increasing disharmony and chaos. The Zentao  practitioner realizes that the full awareness of the mutability of the world makes us free and able to harmony and sincere happiness.

What is Zentao

• is a practical experience for a life full of love, peace and prosperity
• is a way and not “the” way for the awakening and the attainment of the awareness of reality
• is a way that does not preclude other path of knowledge (the scientific process, the intuitive way, the artistic one, etc.).
• is daily discipline
• is something that belongs to every sentient being
• is changeable

What is not Zentao

• is not a religion
• is not a philosophy
• is not a moral
• is not an organization or a sect
• is not a trademark
• is not a logo, a product, something marketable
• it is not the exclusive property of someone
• it is not traceable to leaders, gurus, hierarchies
• is not immutable

[from http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentao]