In Zen Buddhism there is a term called Shoshin, which translates to “The Beginner's Mind”. This is the first of the three qualities to bring with you to class. To operate with a beginner’s mind means to see and experience phenomena as if it is being seen and experienced for the first time, with acceptance and curiosity, unadulterated by past experience, expectation, preference, resistance, or fear. To approach life in this manner allows us to derive all the nutritional and educational benefits from an experience without the baggage of past experience, or future projection.

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