“Zen and the art of living the beginner’s life”
What this blog is about:
What does it take to begin something new? What does it take to examine your own doings and deciding that things could be done better. Beginnings are all around us and dominate our daily lives. Small beginnings like getting up in the morning and big beginnings like starting a business.
- So what is this blog about exactly? Lifestyle design and personal development with a Zen twist.
Where did this knowledge come from:
Zen is my main influence. It gave me a way of looking at things from a distance and disconnect from the event, it also gave me the possibility to connect with what was going on right there and then. Looking from the outside and looking from within at the same time.
As a tribute to zen I decided to call this blog mind the beginner. It’s a reference to the book “Zen mind, Beginner’s mind” by Shunryu Suzuki.
The beginner is the one who we can learn most from because he sees everything for the first time, without preconceptions and doesn’t take anything for granted.
Who am I:
My name is Christiaan and I live somewhere in The Netherlands, a small country that hardly shows up on a standard sized globe. I haven’t lived here all my life though, my earliest memories were formed when I lived in Japan (Kobe) in the eighties. The Asian influences have stayed with me and I’m thankful for them. At the moment I’m a trained exercise therapist (I don’t practice however) and I’m working on getting a masters in Information science.
Am I defined only by what I’ve learned in the education system? Of course not. There is more to me than just that but I’ll use phrases for that:
- Zen enthusiast
- Minimalist
- Quality seeker
- Motorcyclist
- Internal Martial Arts lover (Cheng Hsin)
- Bookworm
- Blogger
- Freedom business entrepreneur
