In "Opening the Hand of Thought", Uchiyama Roshi says (page 130):
When I read this paragraph earlier today, it reminded me of Suzuki Roshi's idea of "Beginner's mind", with which we meet everything we encounter with an open attitude, not judging, not through the filter of our preconceptions, but with an open mind, like a beginner would. Is that the meaning of Dogen's daishin?
Gassho
Alina
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With this magnanimous mind, which throws out the thoughts of the small self and ceases to discriminate, it becomes clear that my whole world appears before me as my present circumstances, the scenery of my life, the content of my own self that is also the whole self. This is exactly the same as in zazen, where all the thoughts that come and go are the scenery of zazen.
Gassho
Alina
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