Experience Big Mind/Big Heart using a video from Gempo Roshi
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"The Big Mind Process is a spiritual technology developed by Zen Master Genpo Roshi that facilitates the navigation through the territory of your own psyche and awareness, awakening to the partial truths of the finite self while unearthing the ever-present ground of your infinite Self. The Big Mind Process is not only an innovation in the Zen tradition, but also one of the first Integral Spiritual practices that can be applied to any tradition. At the core of the Big Mind Process is the practice of making the subject, or ego, an object in your own awareness, thus transcending and including the self in your own experience of Big Mind—the essence of an Integral approach"
This experience was intended to be part of the Shadow work experience. When we go through this video see which voices seem to reveal hidden aspects of yourself.
Ken Wilber says: “Let me state this as strongly as I can: the Big Mind process founded by Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel 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 by itself, as a practice for realizing your True Self, 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 arises, integrating it all”
In Big Mind/Big Heart, Genpo uses the voice dialogue method developed by Hal and Sidra Stone and adds an Eastern twist to take us from the more hidden voices of ourselves to highly integrated conscious voices. This technique reveals some of our shadow places on the way to taking us to a profound state change. The video is 2 and half hours long so please arrive by 6:30 and ready to participate. If you can stay for a few minutes after we can have a brief conversation about the experience.
DIRECTIONS: From Rancho Santa Fe Road, turn onto El Camino Del Norte. Go 6/10 of a mile, then turn Left onto Val Sereno. When Val Sereno dead ends at Via de Caballo, turn Right. At the dead end cul de sac, turn Right at a large wooden sign with house numbers and follow the narrow extension down the hill. At the bottom of the hill, turn Left. Our half of the townhouse is at the end, 3197, double green doors.
Parking is limited. One car can park in front of our end of the duplex. One car can park to the right of my duplex neighbor. Three cars can park in the guest slots before the townhouse. The rest of you will have to park at the top of the hill before the wooden sign and then walk down the hill. I suggest that you bring a flash light to return up the hill to your car. Sorry for this inconvenience.
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