Beginner's Mind

Hey there. Settle in. Settle down. Let your inhale be deep and slow. When you exhale, let it all go. Breathe in. Breathe out. Welcome to a Hit of Hope. One of the main tenets of Buddhism is beginner’s mind or approaching everything with an “I don’t know” mindset. This is meant to create freedom from views and expectations. It’s been called the wisdom of uncertainty. Anybody mind if I slip the Buddha some gravel in his rice for that one? Seriously. Freedom sounds kinda nice, but the wisdom o

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Incredible. Thank you

Thank you
Uncertainty is certain😒😮😊
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Yes!!! The one thing we can be certain of is uncertainty. Buddha’s greatest teaching.
Thank you Betsy.🕉🙏💖

I've said this before, but you really do seem to say exactly what I need to hear sometimes.
Lately, I haven't dreamt as I slept. At least, I haven't recalled dreaming, and I normally do. Vividly.
But the horrifying (and in wakefulness, also very silly) dream that startled me awake 2 minutes before my 4 a.m. alarm today shows me the affect of fighting my uncertainties.
I've built up a ton of expectations around what's going to happen tonight, and I have let myself invest a great deal of emotion and hope in it.
Now, I must approach it afresh, with the Buddha's beginner's mind, and strive to simply allow it. Regardless of outcome, which is entirely outside my control.
Life does, after all, happen for me, not to me.
Thank you, once more, for the much needed slap across the jaw.
Namaste.

So eloquent Betsy .....funny I was just looking at the "tiny B" site for a journal. Yep put gravel in the rice .....more Love boat that G island for me..but think that ship has passed⛵lol. Life has gone into what Jacinda (our P M) has nicknamed the 🚦traffic light system for us starting Friday. Vax passports......I ve decided as Ronan Keating sang" 🎤life is a roller coaster ....you've just gotta ride it "whew....easier said than done. Thanks for letting us know we are all in the same boat...albeit being shipwrecked on an island or on a cruise with a happy ending😉💙🚢📧...aroha from NZ.....