Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Shunryu Suzuki

“Our ‘original mind’ includes everything within itself.” Well at what point do we lose our original mind? I like how he says in the beginners mind there are lots of possibilities. We can have an empty mind that’s open to all possibilities. “In the experts mind there are few” I think in the experts mind, he or she gets so caught up with what they think are the truths and focus only in that area. It isn’t as open to all possibilities.
“The reason why everything is beautiful is because it is out of balance, but its background is always in perfect harmony.” I’m not sure how to interpret that but how I see it is that everything in life has some good and some bad, some things have more bad than good or more good than bad. But when you look at the bigger picture, all the good in bad in everything equals out. So in the end, everything is in perfect harmony.

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