Welcoming Beginner's Mind
Zen and Tibetan Buddhist Wisdom on Experiencing Our True Nature
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"In Welcoming Beginner's Mind, Buddhist teacher Gaylon Ferguson reflects on the ox herding images to show that the path into this contradiction can be walked with the practice of welcoming-the simple, challenging, and always new possibility of opening to exactly what's occurring in your experience. This practice, which he distinguishes from meditation, opens a middle path between spiritual bypassing (using meditation or other spiritual practices to repress or avoid parts of ourselves) and spiritual materialism (practicing with a sense of ego involvement and gain). Rich with teachings from the ...
"In Welcoming Beginner's Mind, Buddhist teacher Gaylon Ferguson reflects on the ox herding images to show that the path into this contradiction can be walked with the practice of welcoming-the simple, challenging, and always new possibility of opening to exactly what's occurring in your experience. This practice, which he distinguishes from meditation, opens a middle path between spiritual bypassing (using meditation or other spiritual practices to repress or avoid parts of ourselves) and spiritual materialism (practicing with a sense of ego involvement and gain). Rich with teachings from the great Zen master and author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Ferguson's own teacher Chèogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and numerous others who have commented on the ox herding pictures, this book invites you into a process of spiritual maturation that never occurs elsewhere than here or other than now"--
