The Big Mind Technique
Learn how to SHIFT your perspective from self-centred mind
to a Big Mind awareness.
EXPAND your state of consciousness and learn
how to access innate wisdom and compassion.
The Big Mind technique comes out of both Western psychotherapy tradition and the Eastern Zen tradition, a twenty-six hundred year old teaching of self-realisation and actualisation. The Big Mind technique is a very simple yet powerful and and rapid way to help a person shift perspective and realise the wisdom that may take a 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 Western approach." After experiencing this shift in perspective, each person needs the practice and meditation, or Zazen, in order to sustain and deepen realisation.
Zen Master Genpo Merzel Roshi developed the Big Mind after 30 years of formal training and 25 years of Zen teaching and counselling. 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 (Shambla, 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 Genzo Merzei Roshi. In 2002 he was given Hoshi (dharma holder) by Genpo Roshi and in 2005 permission to lead Big Mind workshops. See below for upcoming events, or if you would like David to travel to your area to lead a group, this can be arranged, assuming enough people show interest. David can be contacted via the Zen Group's 'Find Us' page.
For more information, see the essays Finding Your Big Mind by Genpo Roshi and Studying the Self through the Big Mind Process by Margaret Esterman, both at the Big Mind website.
