AA wrote: Beautiful! I love this! ❤️
See Life With the Eyes of a Child
A child said, What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full
hands;
How could I answer the child? … I do not know what it
is any more than he.
Walt Whitman
We have so many prejudices/pre-conceptions about many things. Not just about how certain (groups of) people are, but basically of everything in life: “Tea is bitter”, “Stones are dead”, “Mondays are depressing”, “Playing chess is boring” and so on. They all prevent us from living life fully!
There’s a concept within Zen Buddhism called Shoshin (初心) meaning “beginner's mind”. It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying a subject, just as a beginner in that subject would.
Next time you catch yourself with putting a ready made label on something, take hold of your mind and empty it. Look at that something with that empty mind, with wonder and awe. Just as a child would do.
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