Don't Know Mind

[@EmptyGateZenCenterBerkeley]

May I help you?

[@DarkMoonDroid]

"It doesn't mean anything." ~Switch

[@mujaku]

The Don't-know mind is he deluded mind like Shunyru Suzuki's beginner's mind. Such a mind is always closed. But Bodhidharma did not travel to China to teach the deluded beginner's mind. He went to China to teach the absolute Mind that is called dharma-nature which is also called liberation. Neither life nor death can restrain the absolute Mind unlike with the deluded or "Don't-know mind." By Red Pine's translation, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma.

[@bummoification]

Ohhhhhh

[@EmptyGateZenCenterBerkeley]

You are attached to "mind". Don't know mind, beginner's mind, and absolute mind are like different fingers pointing to the moon. Why attach to the finger? Take away Don't know mind, beginner's mind, and absolute mind......then what?

[@squamish4244]

I don't know.

[@EmptyGateZenCenterBerkeley]

Take away "I" and it will be crystal clear.

[@squamish4244]

Take away I and still "don't know". Is that wrong? No.

[@michaelb41]

The older I get the less I know.

[@EmptyGateZenCenterBerkeley]

Congratulations!

[@jackhousman6637]

Bodidharma's beard.