Beloved Shunryu Suziki popularized the phrase - Zen mind, beginners mind. The ‘zen mind’ is mu-shin - ‘no mind.’ Beginner’s mind is sho-shin.
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities in the expert’s, there are few.”
Unfortunately, some folk have kind of inverted and twisted this. They use it as some sort of zen battering ram.
Instead (and more correctly):
1) Know what you know. Do not be embarrased by it, share it when it is right to do so.
2) Know what you do not know, seek to learn, do not be embarrased by it.
3) Flip off those who do not know and insist you live in their ignorance. Do not be embarrased to give them the finger.
Mu-shin is the mind of possibility. Cultivate it. It took me 20 years to grasp this…
