MUSHIN ENTERPRISES

Mushin is a Zen term, "Mu" meaning negation or void; "Shin" meaning heart, mind or feeling. Literally "void mind", but a better translation would be "the absence of intellectual/logical mind". The word mushin basically refers to a state of mental clarity and enhanced perception (sensory and intuitive) known as pure mind, produced by an absence of conscious thought, ideas, judgements, emotion (fear and anxiety), pre-conception or self-consciousness. A state of cognitive awareness characterized by the absence of discursive thought. A state of mind in which the mind acts/reacts without hypostatization of concepts. Mushin is often erroneously taken to be a state of mere spontaneity. Although spontaneity is a feature of mushin, it is not straightforwardly identical with it. It might be said that when in a state of mushin, one is free to use concepts and distinctions without being used by them.

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