If you can keep your beginner's mind forever, you are Buddha

 

So, the most difficult thing is to keep our beginner's mind in our practice.  So, if you can keep your beginner's mind forever, you are Buddha.  In this point, our practice should be constant.  We should practice our way with beginner's mind always.  There is no need to have deep understanding about Zen.  Even though you read Zen literature you have to keep this beginner's mind.  You have to read it with fresh mind.  We shouldn't say, "I know what is Zen," or "I have attained enlightenment."  We should be always big enough.  This is very important.  And we should be very, very careful about this point.

 

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

 

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