Learn how to SHIFT your perspective from a self-focused mind by stepping into the awareness of Big Mind - Big Heart

EXPAND your consciousness and learn how to access the

wisdom and compassion that is available in every moment

The Big Mind technique is an ingenious use of Western psychotherapeutic techniques to facilitate the recognition of timeless wisdom insights from the Eastern Zen tradition, a twenty-six hundred year old teaching of self-realisation. It is a simple yet powerful way to allow a person to shift perspective into an awareness of one’s true nature, amazingly, in just a few hours; something that would traditionally take a dedicated meditator more than fifteen or twenty years to accomplish. Genpo Roshi said “Big Mind was created as a fusion of meditation and therapy techniques. The Big Mind process is a very Western approach.”

Once this shift in perspective is realised, further practice and meditation, or Zazen, will bring about increasing access to this wisdom and compassion in every aspect of life, however the instant recognition of your ‘Original Face’ typically brings acceptance of all the aspects of being fully human and hence a profoundly beneficial change in your relationship to your life as it is right now.

Zen Master Genpo Merzel Roshi developed the Big Mind after 30 years of formal training and 25 years of Zen teaching and counseling. Roshi is one of the most senior Zen teachers in the US; Dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, he has received training in both Rinzai and Soto Zen schools. He is the author of four books: The Eye Never Sleeps (Shambala, 1991); Beyond Sanity and Madness (Tuttle, 1994); Dharma 24/7 (Tuttle, 2000) and The Path of the Human Being (Shambala, 2003).

David Scott has been a Zen practitioner since 1982 under the guidance of Genpo Merzel Roshi. In 2002 he was given Hoshi (dharma holder) by Genpo Roshi and in 2005 accredited to lead Big Mind workshops. He is the author of many books including: The Elements of Zen; Simply Zen; Interiors and Gardens and The Three Bowl Cookbook.

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