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Big Mind - Big Heart: Finding Your Way | 
 enlarge | Author: Dennis Genpo Merzel
Publisher: Big Mind Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 18347
Media: Paperback
Pages: 189
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0977142337
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3444
EAN: 9780977142330
ASIN: 0977142337
Publication Date: September 30, 2007
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Book Description
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.
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 Boot Camp For The Soul August 29, 2008
J. Moore (Garden of Earthly Delights)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Genpo Roshi has created an extraordinarily rapid process for spiritual expansion. Reading this book will be an enlightening experience for those who are open to it.
Basically, the Roshi combines Zen with Voices therapy to break down the disowned parts of ourselves to give us more clarity which leads to integration. He does this by speaking to a number of our different voices, or aspects including the Controller, the Protector etc. He begins with the more spiritually dualistic voices, moving to the more integrated voices.
A couple of key takeaways:
-All perspectives are true but incomplete
-We all have every perspective within us, but we have disowned parts of ourselves that we don't like
Will you get enlightened just by reading this book? Maybe. But, you can be assured of an expansive experience.
 A very present help August 21, 2008
George Jisho Robertson (London)
I think this book should be on everyone's bookshelf, whatever our basic way of seeing our true path through our life may be - it goes to the heart of a dynamic intimate process of self-discovery, accessible and functional whatever sources we use to structure our life and vision of what life is about - whether we source from self-help, the way of the arts, psychology, spirituality or any specific religion, and whether our field of activity is sport, education, management, business, therapy, family, the arts - whatever. It is enabling, grounded in contemporary experience and very direct.
Here is a way to appreciate and enlist every aspect of my self, both light and dark, and integrate it all in the flow of my everyday life, but you'll have to make it your own. It really helps to experience the writer teaching on genpo.org.
Genpo Roshi's sources embrace ancient wisdoms of the East and Western wisdom in language that is immediate and contemporary. He engages the mind and touches the heart.
As a student of Genpo Merzel, I trained with him for many years. Now that I live across the ocean, I appreciate all the more his ability and skill in offering a map and a handbook of the way of the ordinary human being as honesty in self-discovery, as a path of compassion and kindness. The specific guidance in meditation and self-discovery this book offers is unique and workable.
Looking all my life July 2, 2008
David A. Burnet (Fawn Grove, PA; USA.)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been looking, ever since a teenager, when I (like many others) had spontaneous spiritual experiences. How to have such states of consciousness on purpose -- has been a driving question for me.
As a result, I've accumulated many processes.
The Big Mind, Big Heart process taught in this book & CD is among the easiest I've seen...it's so simple and easy - by hindsight. The CD talks us through the process - I found this very helpful.
If you're looking for a modern, easier way to experience enlightenment...this is probably the easiest and best you'll find. Try it out; be reasonably receptive -- have the experience for yourself...few books are this good!
A workable process April 3, 2008
Ilmar Waldner (Oceanside, CA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Above all this book presents a process. A process for becoming more aware of aspects of oneself. The process is one of callling forth and giving voice to aspects of oneself (An approach going back at least to Fritz Perls and developed by Hal and Idra Stone with whom Genpo Roshi worked directly). By callling forth different aspects, in the sequence in which he does, he suceeds in calling forth aspects which transcend our normal view of ourselves: Aspects such as Big Mind and Big Heart, among others. These are aspects of ourselves which view existance in a non-dual way, beyond the duality of consciousness and the objects of consciousness. And finally he calls forth the voices of the individual human being who integrates all these aspects.
The method is obviously not traditional zen, but the realizations it facilitates purport to be the same as those to which one comes through more traditional methods.
The value of the book is in this: Just in the reading (or listening to) the process and doing it, by giving voice to these aspects in onself as they are called forth, one can indeed get a glimpse of these different viewpoints as aspects of oneself that are already there. By itself that is an important realization and provides a very usefull tool for further exploration. But as Gempo himself says, this glimpse needs to be deepened and stabilized by more work with the Big Mind process and also by more traditional work.
Innovative, exciting, entertaining, straightforward.. March 31, 2008
J. Schuitemaker (Amsterdam NL)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A truth-seeker myself and meditator for most of my adult life, I found this book very interesting in the way that it gives me, as a western reader, the opportunity to reap the benefits of both Eastern Religion/Philosophy and Western Psychology, blended skillfully into the so-called Big Mind/Big heart Process, showing me "easy" access to non-dual concepts, like "Buddha", or "God", for this matter, that are given voice, in other words are owned that way, much faster than with traditional methods like meditation or devotional practice.
In my opinion, the "West", with all it's "High-wire" is craving for this kind of innovation, this kind of exciting, interactive and straightforward method, described here as a way of choosing to become a decent "Human Being", with all its flaws and shadows ,yet in touch with its boundless Nature..
Genpo Roshi is clearly a courageous Zen-master, I think, to write a book like this, presenting a revolutionary process for finding "One's Way" in life, in both Capital and in "Kitchen-sink" -sense, in a way that is appealing and suitable for "Westerners", like myself..
The book found its way to Holland ,where I live,(so please pardon my English..)and is already translated into Dutch and thus helps to raise the consciousness (and happiness,why not..) of the ever so stubborn Low-landers..Thank you, Genpo Roshi !
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