{"id":2136,"date":"2020-01-04T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciablog.luricidex.com\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2020-01-04T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:42:15","slug":"dec-8-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciabatessmith.com:443\/index.php\/2020\/01\/04\/dec-8-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 12-8-19 Beginners Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been thinking this week about when I took the level 1\nHealing Touch (HT) class back in October 2018. The instructor asked during the\nintroduction that we come into the class with a beginner mind, open to learning\nand new ideas. Thinking back I learned so much so I was open but it bothers me\ntoday that I did interject, or to be kinder to myself, offered things I had already\nlearned into a few lessons. What these were is not important; what is is that I\nhave this bothersome feeling that I didn\u2019t listen to the instructions of\nholding the \u2018beginners mind\u2019 and may have done a dis-service to myself and the\nclass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the dilemma. Does having a beginners mind mean only\ntaking in new information and not sharing ideas of things already learned or\ncontributing creative alternatives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The homily this morning by Father Rohr also mentioned \u2018beginners\nmind\u20191<\/sup>. He was speaking about the Gospel, Luke 17:11-19. Jesus\nhealed 10 lepers but just one, a Sumerian, returned to Jesus to give praise to\nGod. Father Rohr made the point that it was the foreigner who was grateful. He\nwas the one not part of the \u2018in crowd\u2019 of society therefore he had fewer\nexpectations and feelings of entitlement. Father Rohr used the analogy of the freshman\nwho listens, who is eager to learn all the requirements to fit in while the\nsophomore doesn\u2019t listen to instruction as he thinks he knows all the requirements\nalready – his belief of already knowing all he needs to know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From my HT training I have feelings that I did wrong but I\nalso think that my offers were just little tips I had heard elsewhere that help\nme to remember so they might help someone else as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My negative perspective of myself sees I interrupted the\ninstructor (I did raise my hand) to offer my time. My positive perspective of\nthe memory says I offered a different tool to others in the group. Why do I\nstill think of this and judge it one way or the other? Even now it takes away\nfrom my delving into understanding \u2018beginners mind\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn\u2019t it always good to help others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am going to reflect on NO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While preparing to settle into reflecting and writing on\nthis topic I type up my blog from 11-24-19 for posting. On that day I started\nthat contemplation feeling gratitude and wanting to share that strong feeling\nto aid others in arriving at that feeling as well. I came to realize that many\nothers felt what I was feeling and that it is not just \u2018me, me, me\u2019; I am just\nan individual within a collective. Therefore, if I am choosing to help others\nas I think I have something more than them, that they are lacking and require\nmy help, then it is not good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently observed in a friend\u2019s family a family member who\nthey all put down as not doing anything to care for herself. When her situation\nchanged by the death of her spouse she became willing and capable to learn new\nskills to care for herself. It seems there are cases where others may give so\nmuch they don\u2019t allow an individual to do for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve heard it said that parents that do not teach their children\nto care for themselves are perpetrating a form of child abuse by not permitting\nthe child to mature into an adult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can understand now that the reasoning of speaking out\nbecause it may help others is fueling my ego. If someone is in need of the\npiece of information I might offer the opportunity to offer it will arise. In\nthe teacher\/student situation I found myself in, I can see now that it is\nbetter to be humble and open minded (and hearted) so as to allow myself to\nreceive what is being given to me by the teacher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Rohr\u2019s analogy of the freshman and sophomore expectations\nis helping me to understand the benefits of beginners mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is about being open to receive what another is willing\ngiving to you. Leave the ego outside. It is a choice to be open and vulnerable\nto new things without having to boost yourself by presenting everything you\nthink you already know just to make yourself feel comfortable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel very grateful for this reflection today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Father Richard Rohr Homilies, cac.org, \u201cPerpetual\nSophomores\u201d, 10-13-19.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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