Later—much later—I read Shunryū Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind and realized that coming back to the beginner’s mind is a do-over. “If I allow myself,” I tell Andrew, “then I can have an infinite number of do-overs.” I explained that we can always return to what is, what is really happening, what is truly present. Even more powerfully, if we do that, then we can let go of the e-mail, let go of the missed quarter, let go of the shame of having eaten all those Oreos.
