Someone
wise once said-- 'the search for self-realization is powered by our
anxiety, our fears that feeds our ego causing frustration in our
daily life'. Never realizing what it meant, gave a food for thought
to analyze what the society's paradigm of 'self-realization' is.
When
the mind is left alone, one can witness its vastness. Every
individual find different means and methods to begin their search
with certain parameters in mind as per norms, the parameter of what
is known hitherto and what can be anticipated set by the society.
Now
when the religious texts and scholars blow their trumpet of
self-realization, often perplexed, the mind tries to find where it
all began; tracing the search back in time; trying to find the
beginner's mind becomes crucial, the original mind that beholds
everything in itself-- it is always rich, ever sufficient, it is not
a closed mind but an ever empty mind. This is where the possibility
of being dual fades and is rendered with its oneness.
When
the mind demands or creates a self-centered overview, it limits
itself, however, when redeemed with no thoughts of self or any
achievements the 'true beginners' begin their journey. Consequently,
the true wisdom knocks the door.
The
beginner's mind is always compassionate and boundless. The boundless
mind is open to all learning. Eventually, the need for any religious
texts or manual of conducts cease to exist and become redundant.
'In a
beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in an expert mind there
are few'. Who wants to be an expert when there is always something
new to be known, being the unknown, being Mr. Nobody.
