Posts Tagged with "Beginner’s mind"
Value Rigidity, Empty Teacups and Unboxing the Brain
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!” “Like this [...]
Continue reading...On Authenticity, what are your claims?
Thursday, July 23, 2009
I don’t know where I’ve read it exactly (might have been Seth’s purple cow but I’m not sure) but on the Internet if people perceive you to be an expert in something, you are an expert. Somehow I find this very dangerous, I’ve been blogging on several topics over the past months and already I [...]
Continue reading...Micro habits, the little things we do every day
Monday, May 25, 2009
As you sit reading this blogpost, close your eyes for a second and feel your body. The way you are sitting now, is probably the way you always sit. Maybe hanging to one side a bit more, maybe rotating your spine in some way. Are you sitting symmetrical? The way we sit is just one [...]
Continue reading...Exploring beginner’s mind
Monday, March 16, 2009
The Phrase Beginner’s mind is a phrase coined by Shunryu Suzuki or as most call him Suzuki-Roshi, a Zen master who ran a Zen temple in San Francisco in the 1960′s among other things. But what exactly is beginner’s mind? I wrote about this in my first post on this blog but I want to explore [...]
Continue reading...Before you read this, get a cup of coffee.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Got that coffee? Great, and welcome to my new blog! On this blog I’m going to investigate what it takes to begin, where to start, anything and everything on starting anything and everything. Finding new ways to do things. There are allot of things I haven’t done yet, that I really would like to do. [...]
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- Jeff Sharpless: In many ways the virtual reality has been alive and well since our minds reached a state of consciousnesses. Much of the time since inception human be...
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