don't know mind???

ashcatman

Any books or links talking about 'this don't know' mind.
I'm really interested in it.
It seems to me like its the true path to happiness as I've witnessed it from a friend of mine. He has this 'don't know mind to everything'

When I ask him questions like 'how do u accept things? How do u not get angry? How do u always stay calm? How can u forgive that person etc etc...and he just says 'don't know mate, that's just me'

He a chilled out dude who just gets on with life.
And its defo the way to be man!
Ive come across it every now and again but then forgot where??

So does anyone know of any books,websites or anything that talks about 'DONT KNOW MIND'

Cheers!

Tosh

I don't know that book (pun intended), but it sounds extremely similar to this book:

No Self, No Problems, by Anam Thubten
http://www.amazon.com/No-Self-Problem-Anam-Thubten/dp/1559393262

It's a good book, particularly for someone new to Buddhism.

riverflow

Reminds me very much of the ancient Hellenistic Pyrrho (who, incidentally, was very influenced by Indian philosophies):

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pyrrho

genkaku

The Korean Zen teacher Seung Sahn put some emphasis on don't-know mind. As for example, http://www.kwanumeurope.org/pdf/en/What_is_Zen.pdf#zoom=87

seeker242

Cinorjer

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Know-Mind-Spirit-Korean-Zen/dp/1590301102

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150402212075422

http://zenhabits.net/how-to-live-life-to-the-max-with-beginners-mind/

The internet is full of nice little pages that address "Don't know mind" or "Beginner's mind".

My only contribution is to consider that, for some reason, we are taught that "don't know" is a bad place to be. Our classrooms are telling us that saying we don't know is unacceptable. The problem is, lots of what they teach us turns out to be wrong and so our knowing is illusion.

Beginner's mind is don't know mind.

genkaku

Cinorjer wrote: we are taught that "don't know" is a bad place to be.
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And, with similar results, that it is a good place to be.

Mountains

Ain't that the truth? To be a true beginner - a true student - is looked down upon. The whole object is to gain as much knowledge as quickly as possible, at the expense of everything else. One of the main reasons I just quit grad school. They were trying to cram several years worth of knowledge into us within months. To what end I'm not sure, but it certainly made it hard to keep a beginner's mind about it.