Love this Katie, such a great reminder! I bought my copy of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind at the bookstore in Seattle when you were on your Running Home tour. I’m gonna pull it out again!
I love this! I always find when I slow down become purposeful the world starts to open up again. This reminds me to also reread Zen mind. Running always comes back to me when I keep it simple and follow the feel. Yoga helps as well. What an insightful article. 🙏🏼 Thank you
Haha, yes that's what I tell myself everyday in front of a class of 9th graders--their blank looks signal my great wisdom. Let me know when you read "Mom of Bold Action" and I'll share my (probably not as wacky as I think) wacky theory about it. I'll bump Time Being up on my to-read list!
I read ZMBM for the first time a little over a year ago, reading it with a philosophy professor friend of mine with whom I have a weekly reading group made up of just the two of us (we read just about anything and everything, but I've pulled us pretty strongly toward Buddhism, whether that means George Saunders short stories or heavy East Asian philosophy like Jay Garfield's work, and much in between). We absolutely eviscerated the text with our rational, order-seeking minds and realized after a few pages that this text would never yield up its wisdom to that kind of treatment. I've since revisited the work, and the idea of beginner's mind, with a different type of attention, more intuitive and open, less meaning-seeking, realizing that seeking meaning is precisely NOT the point of beginner's mind, or Zen for that matter. Letting the need for meaning go, letting purpose itself go, is my practice these days, both in meditation and more recently, in a kind of radical personal experiment, in parenting. Thanks for sharing your own path with us! I can't wait to read the book (pre-ordered today!) (BTW, I admire the way you are reinventing yourself as a runner, and though I've never run more than a half marathon, I recognize your description of squealing joints and the octogenarian shuffle walk.)
Love this Katie, such a great reminder! I bought my copy of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind at the bookstore in Seattle when you were on your Running Home tour. I’m gonna pull it out again!
I love this! I always find when I slow down become purposeful the world starts to open up again. This reminds me to also reread Zen mind. Running always comes back to me when I keep it simple and follow the feel. Yoga helps as well. What an insightful article. 🙏🏼 Thank you
Haha, yes that's what I tell myself everyday in front of a class of 9th graders--their blank looks signal my great wisdom. Let me know when you read "Mom of Bold Action" and I'll share my (probably not as wacky as I think) wacky theory about it. I'll bump Time Being up on my to-read list!
I read ZMBM for the first time a little over a year ago, reading it with a philosophy professor friend of mine with whom I have a weekly reading group made up of just the two of us (we read just about anything and everything, but I've pulled us pretty strongly toward Buddhism, whether that means George Saunders short stories or heavy East Asian philosophy like Jay Garfield's work, and much in between). We absolutely eviscerated the text with our rational, order-seeking minds and realized after a few pages that this text would never yield up its wisdom to that kind of treatment. I've since revisited the work, and the idea of beginner's mind, with a different type of attention, more intuitive and open, less meaning-seeking, realizing that seeking meaning is precisely NOT the point of beginner's mind, or Zen for that matter. Letting the need for meaning go, letting purpose itself go, is my practice these days, both in meditation and more recently, in a kind of radical personal experiment, in parenting. Thanks for sharing your own path with us! I can't wait to read the book (pre-ordered today!) (BTW, I admire the way you are reinventing yourself as a runner, and though I've never run more than a half marathon, I recognize your description of squealing joints and the octogenarian shuffle walk.)