If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many posssibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. . . .
When you have no thoughts of achievement . . . you are true beginners. Then you can really learn something.
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971), a Soto Zen monk who founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the oldest Japanese Buddhist Sōtō Zen monastery in the United States. It is on the border of the Ventana Wilderness and within the Los Padres National Forest, southeast of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
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