The Zen Child

Our reading this week reminds me of the book I'm reading right now: Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind by Sunryu Suzuki. "...in the actual experience of making past time present. There we have poetry, and there we have human life." If the Zen approach to art is to undo our critic, our rambling mind, then it must want us to live in our child self. This is important to me because I believe that I had an intact wisdom as a child and lost it as I grew up. Too much worrying. "Man is a thinking reed buy his great works are done when he is not calculating and thinking. 'Childlikeness has to be restored with long years of training on the art of self-forgetfulnes."- Herrigel.