Big Mind Big Heart Finding Your Way

by Merzel, Dennis Genpo

• ISBN13: 9780977142330
• ISBN10: 0977142337
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-23
• Publisher: Big Mind Publishing

Summary

This book presents a highly original and accessible pathway to self-discovery and personal liberation. Since 1999 the Big Mind process has been experienced by many thousands of people in seminars across America. Big Mind employs a Jungian voice dialogue technique that enables people to step out of limited self-concepts into awareness of their many different sub-selves (emotions/mental states). In addition to exploration of the more familiar sub-voices like anger and fear, author Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel uses this technique to help people access the ever-present Big Mind/Big Heart awareness - the clear, "just being" awareness and the unconditional compassion that we all can experience. The Big Mind process is now available in book form to bring readers of all backgrounds many benefits including: access to our innate wisdom, compassion and equanimity; openness of mind and ability to shift perspectives; greater presence and empowerment; and appreciation for the wisdom within all of our many sub-selves even ones we tend to dislike or disown, like fear and anger.

Author Biography

Dennis Genpo Merzel trained under Zen Master Taizan Maezumi becoming a Zen teacher in 1980. He is one of a small group of Westerners recognized in both the Soto and Rinzai Zen traditions. In 1999, Genpo Roshi combined western psychology and Zen to create Big Mind, a self-discovery process that's been experienced by thousands of people across North America and Europe.  His work is rooted in a deep appreciation of traditional Zen, which he has practiced and taught for over four decades, and his ongoing exploration of ways to integrate the wisdom and insights of both East and West into everyday life.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Preface

Big Mind -- Big Heart

Bridging East and West: The Two Roots of Big Mind

On Working with this Book

Voices of the Self

Non-Dual and Transcendent Voices

Triangles: Embracing and Going Beyond Dual and Non-Dual

The Ten Perfections of Excellence

The Eight Awarenesses of the Awakened Mind

Going Forward

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