Dennis Genpo Roshi

[wil]

Any insight on this from my buddies here?

Genpo Roshi has quite a bio—a longtime Zen Master in the Soto Zen tradition, former president of the White Plum Lineage, and founder of Zen Centers around the US and Europe (including the Kanzeon Zen Center International), he's now recognized as one of the great Zen Masters of the Western World—but it's his current work that's most interesting.

Perhaps you've heard of Big Mind?

It's a new technique (though 'practice' might be a better word) for helping people awaken to their own true nature—it's intended to bring about the experience of satori. For the past eight years, Genpo Roshi has been playing with this lively and interactive dialog-based process that puts the ancient practices of the East into a more contemporary and accessible context, and he's had remarkable success.

The exposure I've had to Big Mind reminds me a bit of those invitations to 'One Taste' that Ken Wilber has described so effectively... and so it makes sense that Wilber would be so enthusiastic about the work. In the forward to Genpo Roshi's new book "Big Mind * Big Heart: Finding Your Way," he writes, passionately:

"Let me state this as strongly as I can: the Big Mind Process (founded by Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi) is arguably the most important and original discovery in the last two centuries of Buddhism. It is 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—which you can call God, Allah, Jahweh, Brahman, Tao, Ein Sof—it doesn't really matter, because the core of the Big Mind Process is Emptiness itself, which, having no specific content at all, can and does embrace anything that arises, integrating it all."

[Paladin]

Hi Wil
I watched a video clip of Genpo doing the Big Mind Big Heart seminar up in Boulder. Very powerful stuff. Genpo is a friend of Ken Wilber and as far as I know is involved in the Integral Institute. One of his students, a Master in her own right is also teaching the method during seminars.
You might find more at What's New on Integral Naked

[Snoopy]

WOW Wil, what a coincidence....

s.

[Snoopy]

Hey wil,

I’ve just read one of his books, The Eye Never Sleeps. It’s from 1991, possibly before his Big Mind, which I don’t really know anything about at the moment, but I’ve put my comments on the book here...


What Book Have You Read Recently?

... I thought the book to be excellent.



s.

[wil]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

WOW Wil, what a coincidence....

s.

Till your second post, I didn't understand this post....

I figured I'd wait.

Funny tho, co inky dinkies are occurring quite regularly round here...I've got two people complaining voluminously that I should stop answering their questions prior to them asking....it actually makes them mad!

[Snoopy]

I'm never one for......

[Snoopy]

...rushing....

s.

[seattlegal]

Originally Posted by wil

Till your second post, I didn't understand this post....

I figured I'd wait.

Funny tho, co inky dinkies are occurring quite regularly round here...I've got two people complaining voluminously that I should stop answering their questions prior to them asking....it actually makes them mad!

Well, effect is supposed to follow cause, {in linear time, anyway.}
Some people do tend to get rather upset if you go around breaking the rules.

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by seattlegal

Well, effect is supposed to follow cause, {in linear time, anyway.}
Some people do tend to get rather upset if you go around breaking the rules.

Reminds me of Operant Conditioning....where the Response (e.g. lever press) PRECEDES the Stimulus (e.g. food pellet).....

<sigh>...I need to get out more....

s.

[seattlegal]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Reminds me of Operant Conditioning....where the Response (e.g. lever press) PRECEDES the Stimulus (e.g. food pellet).....

<sigh>...I need to get out more....

s.

Well, you never know. Some might just enjoy pulling levers, and could care less about the food pellets.

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by wil

Any insight on this from my buddies here?

What Book Have You Read Recently?

...Post 86, buddy!

s.

[bob x]

As Ringo said, "Can't 'elp it. I'm a born Leverpuller."