Can someone regain a Beginners Mind when it has gone?
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Shunryu Suzuki famously said in Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
> In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the
> expert’s there are few
But if one's beginners mind has gone is it possible to regain it. If so what can one do to get a beginner's mind back again.
The motivation for asking this is that after a years practice I had a very strong feeling of my beginners mind leaving me. I felt very fresh, vibrant and curious about practice for about a year then one day I could literally feel that ebb away. From that point my practice was different - maybe not worse but definitely has a different quality to it. It feels more like work I guess. So I've always been curious to whether that initial state would ever come back and if there was anything I could do to encourage it.
Asked by Crab Bucket
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Oct 12, 2014, 04:50 PM
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