Zazen is sometimes perceived as the same as visual meditation ('meiso'), however the direction of zazen is different to that of visual meditation in which the eyes are closed and an object is visualized in the mind.
坐禅は瞑想と同一視される場合があるが、目を閉じて何らかの対象を頭の中でイメージする瞑想とは方向性が異なる。