A Know-it-all In Search of Beginner’s Mind, Part 2 — The quest continues

Debra Keefer Ramage
3 min readFeb 16, 2021
Large character of Chinese characters and underneath the Romanization Sho Shin. Rough translation — beginner’s mind.

When last I visited this topic, I was hopeful I could continue Zen meditation on my own. I have never been able to pursue any discipline more demanding and obvious than brushing my teeth each night before going to bed. I can sink into habits, bad or good, and then continue them forever. It’s starting new ones against my normal drift that’s hard. Self-discipline is a…

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Debra Keefer Ramage

Grandmother, socialist, dual citizen. Member of Twin Cities DSA since 1986. More: https://linktr.ee/debrakeeferramage