Linkage Analysis of Zen Parables The ideas of Zen are often conveyed through 'parables'. In the book, the parables are treated as 'case studies' to apply the method of 'Linkage Analysis'. Linkage Analysis involved: a] analyzing the concept-sense and idea-sense of the 'language' of the parable, b] 'seeing the originals' of all visible, invisible, and subtle details, and c] differentiating their 'orbits of linkages' and 'linkage variations'.