Zen Mind, Beginner’s mind Reaction

Zen Mind, Beginner’s mind is really a book about how to handle every day life. Although the ideas are very abstract, they can be applied to everything we do. Thorough out the book there are several repeated themes such as an emphasis on neutrality and not attaching; and the notion that we are already enlightened, we simply need to wake up to this fact. In addition, 'nether nor'/'either or' concepts dominate the book. …

…only thing that stays the same is change. This is one idea I have struggled with in my own life, but have come to terms with. In the past I would only find comfort in things I saw as preeminent else I would not bother with them; feeling that if I'm going to loose it anyway, why bother. But it is an inevitable truth that we can only live now and now is always changing.