From the Tarot de St. Croix, the Two of Swords; from the Archetype Cards, Magical Child:
Those hard decisions are often between the choice of the mind and the choice of the heart. Others, thinking to help us, will generally take one side or the other. We can easily get caught up in discussions that create more chaos than direction. Yet only we know what crosses the line of our personal ethics and values; only we know the depth of our experience and what it has taught us. Our own insight is what will give us confirmation. The Magical Child can also help us let go of the rigid outcomes we assume for each choice and see a wider range of possibilities. As Zenkei Blanche Hartman teaches:
Beginner’s mind is Zen practice in action. It is the mind that is innocent of preconceptions and expectations, judgments and prejudices. Beginner’s mind is just present to explore and observe and see “things as they are.” I think of beginner’s mind as the mind that faces life like a small child, full of curiosity and wonder and amazement. “I wonder what this is? I wonder what that is? I wonder what this means?” Without approaching things with a fixed point of view or a prior judgment, just asking “What is it?”
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