The Beginner's Mind
How many of you are able to keep a Beginner's Mind and trust your own aikido journey?
While I find ways to trust my own aikido journey, the Beginner's Mind is the strongest technique around. I would be interested in hearing the thoughts of others regarding how you manage to keep going. In gassho, Mark |
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When I was a beginner my mind was chaotic. Don't ever want to go back there. :D
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When I was a beginner, I was excited and open to learning and having fun.
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I have strong doubts that is possible to have beginners mind after few years of practice. Many mental filters have been created and we dont perceive the reality the same way. We can pretend to have one, but in reality, we still have jugdements based on the values developped during practice....
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Well every time I go to class and my Sensei tells me what needs correcting... again, just like last time... and though it may not need as much correction... it still needs it.. so in that moment I realize how much further I still have yet to go and how much more there is still to learn.
The only way I am not crushed by the weight of that thought is to maintain the enthusiasm of the beginners mind to get through something without drawing a comment for correction from my Sensei because it is no longer needed. Not because she has given up on me! :p |
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It is my Beginner's Mind mantra. dps |
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Seriously, it puts me in the frame of mind to learn.
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I will do my best to cultivate that 'beginners mind' mode and not 'fall in love' while at seminar of Dan Harden's in Hawaii... with it's beautiful beaches and the sunsets and luau's and the days filled with hours upon hours Aiki secrets being revealed... (tee hee hee). ;) |
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I agree entirely with you Mary.
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It is a constant struggle for me. I like to think I know things. Luckily, there is never a shortage of people in the dojo who can remind me of how little I know.
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As I travel and train around the North America, and elsewhere, I am constantly surprised at how closed off people can be to other's approach to aikido. I certainly am at a point in my training where I feel strongly about certain concepts, but always manage to pull two or three ideas - if not whole techniques - from most places I visit. Following a cohesive system is paramount to developing fundamentals, but when I encounter those who have absolutely zero interest in experiencing aikido outside their box I have an issue in understanding where that hesitancy comes from. That being said, I occasionally catch myself being too rigid in thinking, but usually catch it in time to correct and reprimand myself. Even with an open mind it can be difficult to accept something totally different from what you are used to. Its just the lack of effort to even try that blows my mind.
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I enjoy alternate approaches and perspectives. I learn much more from them than I do just looking at my own, day after day. And it doesn't mean that everything I see is right, but only that there are always new experiences to... uh... experience. ;)
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One of the things I enjoy most about Aikido is that every class something makes me feel like a beginner or at least incompetent [not sure I can always tell the difference...]. I try to embrace that feeling instead of becoming frustrated.
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