We Are All Connected: Finding Your “Big Mind”
by Genpo Roshi | December 14th, 2008 | Comments (3)
topic: Personal Growth | tags: acceptance, Buddha Mind, control, God, spirituality, Zen
We are all born with the unborn Buddha Mind, what I call Big Mind/Big Heart, an inner awareness that we are connected with others and our environment — literally One Mind. But something happens as we grow up; we begin to separate ourselves from the rest of the world. We trade the Big Heart-Mind we are born with for another mind that centers around the small self. That self then becomes our number one preoccupation.
