Letting go of what you know – The beginner’s mind

The Zen mind, or beginners mind is the practice of seeing everything

for the first time. Bypassing what has ever been experienced or

taught. There are also known unknowns, the things we know we don’t

know as well as unknown, unknowns, what we don’t know we don’t

know. We’re going to explore and discuss the possibility that energy

causes things to happen that we can likely predict and unexpected

things we did not see coming. The format for this session follows the

same as the others with a guided meditation to bring focus, followed by

an open discussion and readings. The purpose is to disrupt the 2 nd -

guessing and learn to accept first impressions.

I was inspired to construct these stages for spiritual growth and expansion from some of

the spiritual principles I learned while becoming a teacher of yoga practice, which

literally means “to join” – mind (thoughts) body (physical relationship to the

present) and soul, (the vibrational, non-physical energy or essence). Similar

agreements have been linked to many religious practices and the number 12 is

said to be spiritually significant.

It’s my intention to explore these 12 stages as if they were threads and weave each one

into the content for Happy Hour at the Woo-Woo Lounge on the 2 nd and 4 th Friday

of each month at 6:30 p.m. on my Zoom platform. Each Happy Hour will be

approximately 90-minutes and begin with a guided meditation focusing on each

thread, followed by a discussion and readings for participants with the purpose of

sharing what the spirit guides and Angels want to share, as well as help for what

might be missing, or needing to be removed in order to grow and expand.