Monday, October 3, 2011

初心 - Shoshin - Beginner's Mind

Shunryu Suzuki's collection of Zen thought was an "enlightening" read....get it...."enlightening"....


With recent years of my life spent at least partially as a teacher I found some ideas I liked a lot:


You have a teacher for yourself, not for the teacher.


There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment in every existence. That is the true teaching.


In the beginner's mind there are many possibillities; in the expert's mind there are few.


Zazen, or the practice of meditation that most people think of when they think of Zen Buddhism, is in my inexperienced and uneducated understanding a path to calmness, oneness, and enlightenment.


For me zazen is found on my bicycle.


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