What is Big Mind Big Heart?
Big Mind Big
Heart is a practice, a skilful means, to help bring us to our own
profound experience of Kensho or Satori, that state of pure oneness
from which so much wisdom and compassion flows. Developed by American
Zen Master Genpo Roshi, it’s an alternative,
western method of pointing out and experiencing what Zen calls our true
nature.
Big Mind Big
Heart is Zen updated for the western world, a practice enabling oneness
and connection not normally part of our everyday experience. It is an
ever deepening practice that helps us understand, clarify and awaken
our true nature. What’s more, by working through some of our stuck
places we can reintegrate them and open up the range of possibilities
for our own lives. By enabling us to recognise the gift and address
some of the
limiting ways we live and relate, we can live a better life.
We all have
questions about the meaning and purpose of our lives and about how to
get the most out of life. The Big Mind Big Heart approach will show you
how to answer these questions for yourself, for what’s true in your own
unique and special life. Big Mind Big Heart is not someone else’s
interpretation of who you should be and how you should live but rather
a way you can come to your own deep understandings, and directly
experience your life, your relationships and the world at large in a
new and rich way.
Ken Wilber, founder of Integral
Institute, describes Big Mind Big Heart
practice as “an astonishingly original, profound, and effective path
for waking up, or seeing one’s True Nature. It is such a simple and
universal practice it can be used in any spiritual path you wish, or
even just alone, by itself, as a practice for realizing your True
Nature.”
Big
Mind Big Heart is a unique process, delivering traditional Zen in an
advanced form, changed and more suited to western minds. It is a universal method of
self-investigaton open to everyone. It can build on and compliment your
current practice. If you are interested in exploring the deep inner
parts of yourself, how your mind, emotions and ideas operate together,
and to experience the Universe in a new and different way, please check
out Big Mind Big Heart.
"Big Mind Big Heart is the
name given, by American Zen Master Dennis
Genpo Merzel, Roshi, to a special new way to discover, experience and
appreciate your life. It’s also a good way of working out the kinks,
the stuck places, and the unhealthy patterns that keep us down. Life is
complex, and the inner self is an exquisite network of the
psychological and the spiritual. Understanding it well naturally leads
one to a better life.
The Big Mind Big Heart
approach to life is a method of
self-investigation and analysis that is straightforward and effective,
and working with it will open your heart and mind to a new appreciation
of the fullness and richness of life. It’s a new combination of tools,
a blend of Western psychology and science, and the Eastern traditions
passed on to us, and it’s been developed for the express purpose of
helping us to better understand the mind and the nature of human life."
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From
the Big Mind
website
What's a Big Mind Big Heart Workshop?
A Big
Mind Big Heart workshop is practised in a reliable, proven workshop format where we
temporarily
identify as our different aspects, not as our everyday "self". Seated
on chairs and using an
interactive, facilitated
dialogue method, we explore the different aspects of who we are.
You won’t need previous experience. You don’t have to know
anything about psychology or Zen. You only need a burning desire to
understand life.
Next
dates
for Big Mind Big Heart
workshops are in the calendar.
Please visit the Big Mind website
for further information about Big Mind Big Heart and Genpo Roshi.
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