 
(read
full bio)
Ken
Wilber said that the Big
Mind "is arguably the
most
important and original
discovery in the last two
centuries of Buddhism.
"
Read
more on his blog here:
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Western
Zen Roshi Dennis
Genpo Merzel, founder of Big Mind
Process seen here during a recent book tour in Barcelona with author
Mick Quinn and
his wife Debora
Prieto who trained in the Big Mind
process (more
photos).
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Debora
trained intensively in Salt Lake City, Utah, over the past
three years
with Genpo Roshi, his staff, and Diane Hamilton in the use
of the Big Mind
Process in her work with her husband, Irish author, Mick Quinn.
The
Big Mind / Big Heart Process was first developed in 1999 by western Zen Master Dennis
Genpo Merzel Roshi of the Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake
City, Utah. After thirty years of teaching, he wanted to
give people an experience of their True Nature, without the need for
them to have five, ten, or even twenty years of meditation
practice. The Big Mind / Big Heart Process delivers this
outcome!
Big Mind / Big Heart is a
method of self investigation that is straightforward and effective,
and it will open your heart and mind to the fullness and richness of
life.
It’s a new combination of tools, a blend of western psychology, specifically the insights of Carl Jung’s
Shadow, Hal and Sydra Stone’s Voice Dialogue and certain aspects
of Gestalt, with the non-dual wisdom traditions passed on to us. The
Big
Mind Process has been developed for the express purpose of helping
us better understand the mind and the nature of human life.
 (Read the full article here)
"Big Mind is an experience of
our mind and self, without boundaries,"
Merzel says. "In other words, we draw
the sense of limited, confined,
and restricted self and experience ourselves at one
with the universe,
the cosmos, and all
beings. It eliminates the concept of
self and other.
Big Mind is a process to give an immediate, direct Zen experience
which,
up to now, has always been hit and miss."
The Big Mind / Big Heart process empowers the participants to make a fast
shift
without feeling
threatened, from a narrow and egocentric view to an open, clear and
free perspective, that allows them to identify themselves with all
the people and all the things. Big Mind helps people
to become fully functioning human beings.
Big
Mind / Big Heart is self-development and
healing through guided
conversation. This process is a
simple, powerful and fast way of helping people
to change their
perspective. Big Mind helps people to
find the wisdom that meditators may take
many years to achieve.
(Read the full article here)
"Genpo
Roshi is one of the highest ranking American Buddhists and a
deeply respected
teacher. He has been described as a revolutionary in
the tradition
of the
old Zen masters who so embodied Buddhist
teaching that they were
able to
revitalize and transform it for their
own day and age. Since 1999,
he has been sharing
a simple yet powerful
process he calls Big Mind that offers an
experience of
the awakened
state. His unique adaptation of Eastern wisdom for the
Western mind
ultimately invites us to become fully integrated,
free-functioning human beings.
The following is a conversation between Genpo Roshi and Grace
Welker,
Kripalu’s Senior Editor, that took place on June 15, 2006."
With
Big Mind / Big Heart, you get to
know yourself and your Self quickly, in a fun
and easeful conversation with the facilitator. The true
beauty of this process is
that no prior experience in meditation or other practices of self-development
is required to glimpse a taste of your True Self in a matter of
a few hours.
The Big Mind / Big Heart process can
be implemented in individuals, groups, families, seniors,
corporations, and communities. A typical class lasts about 3-6
hours in which participant can have an experience of their True
Nature - of the Mind of the Buddha!
With Big Mind / Big Heart you will:
 Taste
your True
Nature in just a few hours.
Find
out who you really are by observing the voices that make
up
the sense of “I”.
Find
out where your potential for happiness is being limited and
then
release those blockages - all by simple conversation.
Learn
to observe the world with new eyes, from a perspective
of
compassion that you may have never before imagined.
Discover
that there is no separation between you and the other,
because
you are one and the same.
Reduce
stress, increase mental flexibility and learn new ways to
resolve
conflict.
Big Mind / Big Heart
takes place through guided or facilitated conversations in half-day or full-day classes in group or individual settings. This process
reveals
the wisdom of our inner voices so we can learn from them.
With Big Mind / Big
Heart, we get to know
ourselves quickly, in a fun and easy conversation
between us
and the facilitator.
(Read the full article here)
Dennis Genpo Merzel offers a practice to work with our shadow sides
and awaken our enlightened nature.
"IMAGINE YOUR very body-mind-spirit as a company,
like General
Motors, Ford, or IBM. You’re a
company with many employees, and
not one single employee knows his
job title, job description, function,
what the product is, or who the CEO
is. To make matters worse each
employee thinks that he’s the
boss, the one in charge, and all the
other employees are working for
him."
We
all know that there are many ‘voices’ competing for our
attention. Because many of these voices are “stuck”, repressed
or denied, they often manifest in unhealthy ways (i.e.
impatience, frustration, depression, anger or even losing one's
temper) at inappropriate times. One goal of Big Mind / Big Heart is to bring each
one of these voices into full consciousness. Through conversation
the voice loses its influence of our actions and instead
can be expressed in a healthy manner.
The facilitator of this process does not teach anything; he or she
creates a safe
and pleasant environment in which the participants become their own
teachers
and at the end of the day their own Masters.
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