What comes to your mind when you read this quote: "Mind that does not stick."

Question

I need help to come up with a good explanation of the following quote by Zen Master Shoitsu. Please tell me what you think of it when you read it.

Answer 1

My analysis would be that he was referring to a mind that is not fettered by conventional thinking. A so-called "free thinker", one who can easily go from one subject to another in his/her mind without getting bogged down. Honestly, IDK. Just guessing. Do you have a longer quote? Perhaps it is in the context...

Answer 2

it sounds like someone that has been told or taught something many, many times, but the information is never remembered.

Answer 3

Your memory isn't good.

That's what came to my mind

Answer 4

describing a person who is forgetful and cannot retain information.  

Answer 5

Lack of perseverance. As in Can't stick to the task at hand..

I don't know th real meaning though.

Answer 6

Someone lacking focus or commitment to an idea - a person easily swayed.

Answer 7

It makes me think of someone who is scattered brained..in one ear and out the other sort of thing.

Answer 8

i think of s*x......  

Answer 9

maybe someone that can't concentrate  

Answer 10

A mind that does not have conditioned responses (not affected by its karma).

The goal of practice is to have a mind that does not stick.

Answer 11

A mind that does not stick!

Answer 12

absentminded and forgetful.

or maybe in one ear out the other kind of thing

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Answer 13

someone who cant stay on task or someone who thinks of many things at once