7 May 2021

Clarify Mind: 1 of 12: Beginner

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Can I be a beginner for a change? I am experiencing this moment - the present moment - for the first time. Can I have the openness, lightness, vulnerability, excitement, and childlike curiosity to let it emerge? Can I embrace new experiences, ideas, scenarios, and perspectives it brings? It doesn't need to be a continuation of the same old.

Dissolve in Spacious Awareness

Thinking as if I am an expert narrows my space and vision. It adds an unnecessary burden or heaviness to this moment.

Can I avoid imposing my feelings, emotions, desires, attitudes, judgment, or past experiences on the present moment? Can I let the magic unfold?

I want to see others with their unique, miracle nature, not through my lenses of ideas and opinions about them. I avoid insisting they should be how they were half an hour ago, yesterday, a couple of years ago, or any other time in the past. This gives them space to open up and makes them feel seen, recognized, and met.

The beginner’s mindset can help create space to grow and find answers. It can also bring new energies and a different outlook to everyday life. It may help me see magic in what might otherwise appear mundane and routine.

Can I experience this moment with the lightness of a beginner’s mind, perceiving its purity and the freshness of its potential to give rise to the next moment?
 
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi: In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind, there are few.

What are your thoughts?