Beginner's Mind (Japanese 初心 or shoshin) is a concept from Zen Buddhism. It means it's better to have an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of expectations or preconceptions when practicing meditation and exploring Dharma. Even at an advanced level, approach Truth as a beginner would.
Beginner's Mind is especially used in the study of Zen Buddhism and Japanese martial arts [1]. It became popular outside Japan because of Shunryū Suzuki's book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
The practice of shoshin acts as a counter to the hubris and closed-mindedness often associated with thinking of oneself as an adept or expert [2].
When we let ourselves think we know everything, we leave no room for surprises, but reality is full of surprises.
For example, in the Einstellung Effect, a person becomes so accustomed to a certain way of doing things that s/he does not consider or acknowledge new ideas or approaches [3], such as thinking outside the box. Like let's say someone asks you, "Who are YOU?"
One more TikTok, hookup, sext, hit of dopamine
"I'm me," you say. Then this exchange takes place:
"You're not who you think you are."
"I'm who other people think I am."
"No, you're not even that."
"But, but, what else is there? If I'm not who I think I am, and I'm not who others think I am, do I just not exist?"
"No, you are who you think others think you are."
"Oh, yeah, because we're social creatures, right? There's always that [performative] factor of being watched, even if we only think we're being watched."
"Something like that."
"Ah, what do you know?"
"Hey, at least I got you to think outside the box, realize it's not binary -- a this or that, thesis or antithesis. There's often a synthesis, an interaction, a third or fourth option not thought of within the confines of the assumptions surrounding the question."
"Oh, yeah, huh?"
"Monkey."
The word shoshin combines sho (Japanese 初, "beginner" or "initial") and shin (Japanese 心, "mind" or "heart") [4], which is not necessarily the brain but the intuition, knowing, heart, or the ability to discern. More
Los Angeles is a big place. There's Angel City Zen Center with artist and priest Dave, who replaced Brad Warner.
There's ZCLA (Zen Center of Los Angeles), which is a little stiff and set in their ways. Now there's a third good option, the Pasadena Zen Sangha with American Sensei Ese (S.A. for Seigaku Amato).
What's so good about it? It's new, it's open, it's under a fully trained Zen priest who was certified in Japan and has been around many Zen circles.
On a recent Thursday night, practitioners gathered, took to zafus and zabutons (sitting cushions), chanted Sanskrit the Japanese way then English, and started a session of shikantaza, just sitting.
Then came time for kinhin, the relief of getting up to stretch and walk slowly and mindfully before another sitting session. Then the fireworks: question and answer with discussion.
"Those who know don't say, and those who say don't know" is a Taoist saying and sentiment. Many things can be known, and many of them can be expressed. So we hit Sensei with two barrels' worth of questions. Next time we finish off with koans of such subtlety and complexity, he stands no chance. ;,)
The MEDICINE BUDDHA: Buddhism's Forgotten Healer | Bhaisajyaguru
(Buddha's Wisdom) March 4th, 2026: #MedicineBuddha #Buddhism #BuddhistHealing
🔍 THE MEDICINE BUDDHA HEALS WITHOUT CURING — AND HERE'S WHY:
The Medicine Buddha (BhaisajyaGuru) is one of the most fascinating figures in Mahāyāna Buddhism: a blue-skinned buddha associated with healing, compassion, and the Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli (a beautiful blue Afghan gemstone).
But if Buddhism teaches impermanence, non-self (anattā), and detachment from the body, why does it include a buddha devoted to curing illness?
This video explores the history, philosophy, and psychological depth behind Bhaiṣajyaguru...and what Buddhist healing really means.
This is the story of how Buddhism's "doctor who prescribes enlightenment" challenges everything we think we know about healing, suffering, and what it means to be broken.
📿 DISCOVER:
Why Medicine Buddha's 12 vows made him Buddhism's most controversial figure
How 8th-century Buddhist monasteries became the world's first integrated healthcare systems
The blind Chinese Buddhist monk who taught healing despite losing his sight
Why Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese Buddhists practice Medicine Buddha in completely different ways
What modern science reveals about meditation, stress, and the mind-body connection.
⏳ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 The blue-skinned god that shouldn't exist
02:32 The twelve vows that changed Buddhism
08:55 When temples became clinics
14:55 The disease behind the disease
21:22 Three Buddhas, one Truth
30:51 The cure that isn't
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"Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources" edited by C. Pierce Salguero amzn.to/4ct4ivS
"Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World" by Laurent Pordié amzn.to/4rQuAwU
Studies on placebo effect and meditation (Harvard Medical School, NIH research)
Research on mindfulness and pain management
Neuroscience studies on visualization practices
Related Academic Resources:
Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies
Buddhist-Christian Studies journal articles on Medicine Buddha
Contemporary research on Buddhist medical ethics
Cross-cultural studies of Medicine Buddha practice
⚡ In a world obsessed with curing the body, Medicine Buddha asks a deeper question:
If there is no permanent self…who is being healed? [Ugh, the momentarily dependently arisen "self" (atman, atta)?]
DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational purposes. Medicine Buddha practice is a spiritual/meditative practice and should not replace professional medical care. Always consult qualified healthcare providers for medical conditions.
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Tibetan Buddhism's Dalai Lama, with its tantric sex and Vajrayana hocus pocus, possible cannibal Wim Hof, and horrible hypocrite Deepak Chopra's scandalousEpstein Files appearances with Mikki Willis (producer of Plandemic)
Dalai Lama defended over child tongue-sucking remark A top Tibetan leader has tried to defend the Dalai Lama over video evidence that shows him asking a little boy child to suck his tongue, French kiss style. Penpa Tsering, head of Tibet's government-in-exile, has called the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile's actions "innocent" and said it demonstrated his "affectionate behavior [toward little boys in private]." The video sparked outrage after it went viral on social media, with users calling his actions [sexually] inappropriate [for a heterosexual temporal and spiritual leader of a powerful Tibetan Buddhist sect called the Yellow Hats. After all, pederasty is not homosexuality. - It is! - Is it? But it's okay when powerful leaders like Trump or Epstein or Chopra do it, isn't it? - No, why would that make it okay?]. More
What is the damning evidence against this lama?
Hey, Joanie, want to come to a nice island with me where we can be alone? *Wink-wink*
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Dolly, you should be a politician. - I am, Georgie
A very trustworthy source, working as biographer Michael Wolff for Jeffrey Epstein, claims he saw the 14th Dalai Lama at Epstein's New York apartment.
In the movie Unmistaken Child are shown scenes indicative of pederasty or systematic homosexual indoctrination with no fear that they will be misconstrued as anything more than commonplace horseplay, no matter how they might violate the historical Buddha's Monastic Disciplinary Code (Vinaya). Perhaps Tibetan Vajrayana welcomes or tolerates monastic sodomy?
He does not mind touching women (as he was famously photographed with his arm around the American Zen Buddhist nun Roshi Joan Halifax (upaya.org), in direct violation of cultural custom and specific Monastic Disciplinary Code rules, which may have been altered or updated in Vajrayana to accommodate monastic sex with males or females, such as legendary "tantric" practices between adepts and tantrikas acting as a kind of "temple prostitute."
Do you like to surround yourself with pretty young girls, Dalai Lama? Take any island tours?
You were CIA director and now they made you president of the US? Good, George, good!
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It seems the former temporal and spiritual leader (pope-king) of the Yellow Hat sect of Tibet makes his own rules and is called "his holiness" because he is above suspicion, while conducting secret business that would seem to anyone from outside a direct violation of the spirit and letter of monastic law.
Most damning of all is the 14th Dalai Lama's long association with the CIA (the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency). Liberals scoff and dismiss such claims out of hand...until they are shown the documentation and publicly available evidence from the Los Angeles Times dated (or back-dated) to the 1990s, as if everyone has always known he colluded and was a paid asset of The Company. Then, like paid apologists, they scramble to make excuses for him.
"But His Holiness the Dalai Lama would never knowingly take money from such an evil organization," they say in one breath then, seeing the evidence, follow up with, "Well, so what if he took money [and weapons, and military training, and advisors, and connections, and favors in return for favors] from the CIA? That doesn't prove anything."
He accepted weapons and military training to kill Chinese from the CIA, through his brother and training in Colorado, USA.
He has enjoyed very warm relations with many U.S. war criminals in the White House, particularly the Bush Dynasty, who are connected to 9/11, Nazis (through Prescott Bush), financial misdeeds (through The Carlyle Group and other networks), and has served as a pawn for U.S. interests in its cold war with communist-capitalist China -- and former CIA Director George H. Bush, with his close personal connection to the artist and second worst president in the history of the USA, George W. Bush.
It is almost certainly to call the Dalai Lama a CIA "agent" because he is a CIA "asset," doing what he is told as someone on their payroll.
Tibet's historic affiliation with Nazi Germany probably does not enter into the picture.
It also does not help his case that he made those unfortunate pro-gun and pro-killing remarks, as if Zionism and "good genocide" in and for the "State of Israel," which is not a state, had really made an impact on him from lending ear to its arguments so much.
You support our Zionist cause, right? - If CIA say
Rubbing elbows with the powerful elites of the world -- the moneychangers, Zionists, world bankers, military arms manufacturers, funders, intel agencies, and war profiteers -- would anyone be surprised that his humbleness the Dalai Lama would brunch with Epstein, hug Maxwell, be funded by the CIA, be promoted by Zionists, American Jews of all stripes, the U.S. mainstream media and all for reasons no ordinary American can fathom, as demonstrated by John Oliver on This Week Tonight (HBO).
To be clear, we are not saying HHDL did meet Epstein, visit island, have sex with boys, engage in murder (through contracting with the CIA and other intel agencies like the Mossad), sanction killing, accept blood money, or go to Jeffrey Epstein's NY apartment. What we are saying is that it wouldn't surprise us if comes out that he absolutely did all of this and more, maybe exchanging urine drinks or partaking of Bon-style cannibalism. This kindly world figure, as nice as he seems to all of us, is after all a "pope" and was for a long time the head monarch of Potala Palace at the imperial seat of the Tibetan Empire in the Himalayas in Lhasa. He is not, by his own admission, enlightened. And not everyone believes he is any kind of willful "reincarnation" of Chenrézik (Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva).
(MS NOW) "So bad at her job": Nicolle Wallace reacts to cheater, liar, dogkiller, ugly state oppressor, cosplay-loving Kristi Noem being fired by traitorous Don John Trump.
(The Young Turks) Military telling U.S. troops this War on Iran is good because it's heralding Armageddon and second coming of Jesus, in violation of law that Christian Zionists do not mind. It's "God's divine plan." More
(The Jimmy Dore Show) "No one wants to fight for Israel": Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy breaks hand and/or arm of Marine veteran speaking out against Israel's war on Iran (Turkey, Lebanon, Gaza, the Middle East, and any other country that gets in the way of land stealing and empire building).
The reality the Zionist media isn't telling us about Iran
I work for you, Prime Minister. Please, sit down.
(Chase Hughes) March 1, 2026: Iran didn’t slowly become what we see on the news. Rather, it was psychologically taken.
In this episode, Hughes breaks down the real mechanism behind Iran’s transformation: the difference between a people and the system that cages them, how revolutions don’t shift power but shift who gets to use violence, and why fear — not religion — became the enforcement tool.
From a modern, secular Iran in the 1960s and 1970s to a regime sustained by narrative control, surveillance, and compliance rituals, this is a case study in how educated civilizations get hijacked without realizing it.
Let’s dissect the psychological trap that started in 1979, why today’s protests are memory colliding with fear, and the three paths Iran is likely to take next.
This isn’t just about Iran but a preview of what happens anywhere belief becomes mandatory and truth becomes a liability.
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June 29, 2025: (5,881,926 views) The period following World War I was marked by unresolved tensions from the Treaty of Versailles and the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations.
Economic devastation and a desire for national resurgence fueled the rise of totalitarian (authoritarian, strongman) regimes in Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and imperial Japan.
Our Nordic Brown Shirts will rule the world.
These Axis powers embarked on aggressive expansionist policies, including Protestant Christian German rearmament and territorial claims, Buddhist Japan's brutal conquests in Asia, and Catholic Italy's imperial ambitions in Africa.
The nominal democracies of Britain and France, weakened by their own economic woes and a reluctance to confront aggression, failed to halt these escalating conflicts.
This unchecked aggression, coupled with the strategic realignments like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, ultimately set the stage for the outbreak of a global (world) war.
Welcome to The World History Channel. With new uploads every week, it breaks down the biggest stories that have shaped human history. From the dawn of ancient civilizations up to the modern age, these are the stories from our past that matter the most [or at least the sanitized versions we love to tell ourselves with the help of gatekeepers and academics, propagandists and historical psyops]. Discover the past on History Hit, with ad-free exclusive podcasts and documentaries released weekly and presented by world-renowned historians Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, Matt Lewis, and others. More
Though, just like with other famous and eccentric personalities, there are real facts mixed with myths that survive to this day. Is he another Ashkenazi Jew guilty of incest? Or was he a crossdresser who married himself?
Having married his manly looking cousin, who grew to look more and more exactly like him, does not bolster his case for good judgment. But she may have been instrumental in his fame and his math.
In this gallery let's debunk some of the myths and bring a number of surprising facts about Al that most have probably never heard. Browse through and learn more about the supposed genius that was Dr. Einstein (who had no doctoral degree of any kind). More: msn.com
There are two Einsteins, aren't there? Not Mr. and Mrs., but rather like Jesus (Yeshua) the real person and the pop icon (Christ). Reza Aslan was emphatic about this distinction. Everyone knows about the popular fantasy, and very few bother to learn about a possible historical figure in the context of his cultural milieu.
During the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama, as told in his international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus, Rodger Kamenetz heard a penetrating question to the rabbis: "How does your spiritual practice purify afflictive emotions?"
To Kamenetz, this seemed the most fundamental question to ask of any religion or philosophy of life. How do your practices help you with negative emotions like anxiety, envy, resentment, and shame?
You support our cause, right Mr. Lama?
Taking the listener with him on an exhilarating intellectual and emotional journey, he finds a natural spiritual path in the imagination. Kamenetz connects daily life to spiritual longing, from the musical rhythms of his beloved New Orleans to his tender bond with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, visionary founder of Jewish Renewal and a central figure in the Dharamsala, India (where the Dalai Lama lives in exile), dialogue.
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