Starting over
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few."
There's good reason why this line from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's teachings in the book, 'Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind', is so famous and often quoted. It contains a world of richness and the sense is immediately clear.
Hence it is profound because it is basic. It's arresting because it's simple. And so it calls us back to the liberating potential that is always available if we can drop our egotistical, socialised and in a sense, neurologically wired instinct for needing to know or categorise or conceptualise everything because we imagine it will secure our future, and instead, just allow for what is.
Not what we think or want things to be, not what we imagine they should or could be, nor what we fear they will or won't be. But just facing and feeling (rather than thinking about) what is.
