A Beginner's Mind 01/01/2016 “In the beginner’s mind are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few." (Shunryu Suzuki in Zen Mind, Beginners Mind) Ah, what a great way to start this new year…as a beginner, not an expert. Our life is full of ‘experts’ who tell us what the news means, who tell us why they are the only good candidate for high office, who… Perhaps, like me, you find the unceasing monologue of experts boring, in fact numbing. I don’t know everything. I want to learn. This is the way I
“In the beginner’s mind are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few." (Shunryu Suzuki in Zen Mind, Beginners Mind) Ah, what a great way to start this new year…as a beginner, not an expert. Our life is full of ‘experts’ who tell us what the news means, who tell us why they are the only good candidate for high office, who… Perhaps, like me, you find the unceasing monologue of experts boring, in fact numbing. I don’t know everything. I want to learn. This is the way I
