Laurence Galian's The Silence of the Mind
3 | MUSHIN
The term Mushin is shortened from the term mushin no shin, a Zen expression meaning the mind without mind and is also referred to as the state of no-mindness. That is, a mind not fixed or occupied by thought or emotion and thus open to everything. It is translated by D.T. Suzuki as "being free from mind-attachment".
Recently, I was deeply studying the Red Book of Jung, as well as practicing all sorts of ways to access the unconscious, so I was using both Jung’s and Freud’s techniques at the same time. I even made a video in which I formally invited my unconscious to express itself however it wanted in my life. Something inside me told me that it was a bit foolish to think, like Jung and Freud, that we could somehow control the unconscious. In other words, that we could do exercises through which we could explore the unconscious. I felt that I just needed to get out of the way of my chattering and analytical conscious mind. This led me to the exploration of Mushin.
The term Mushin is shortened from the term mushin no shin, a Zen expression meaning the mind without mind and is also referred to as the state of no-mindness. That is, a mind not fixed or occupied by thought or emotion and thus open to everything. It is translated by D.T. Suzuki as "being free from mind-attachment".
Recently, I was deeply studying the Red Book of Jung, as well as practicing all sorts of ways to access the unconscious, so I was using both Jung’s and Freud’s techniques at the same time. I even made a video in which I formally invited my unconscious to express itself however it wanted in my life. Something inside me told me that it was a bit foolish to think, like Jung and Freud, that we could somehow control the unconscious. In other words, that we could do exercises through which we could explore the unconscious. I felt that I just needed to get out of the way of my chattering and analytical conscious mind. This led me to the exploration of Mushin.