Lin Qingxuan's prose writing has been deeply influenced by Zen thought. A significant Zen sense can be found in his works of this type. His prose works are unique in style. The invaluable points for his prose can be specified as that he is always taking an actively “real” attitude in his writing and pays attention with his humanitarian respect and consideration on a variety of problems faced in the existence of human being. Some features of style such as brevity, clearness, cleverness, and depth are easy to be found in his prose. In these prose works one can feel unification of emptiness and fullness and fluidity of hollowness and inspiration. In a word, there is poetical beauty in his works.
