We don't try to impose what we find on each other. Even the person who leads the group does not try to impose what she or he has discovered on anyone else there. We regard every person's unique experience of themselves to be fully and equally valid. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi talked about "beginners mind," saying that even the most inexperienced Zen practitioner's understanding was just as valid as that of the greatest master. It's different, to be sure. But that does not make it any less valid.
---Brad Warner, in Don't Be a Jerk---
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