A Introduction to Big Mind as Western Zen

Dennis Merzel
Independent study
Online

Overview

The mind is a wonderful thing. Capable of brilliant thought and creativity, as well as bringing misery and suffering. How can we understand and work with it? How can we channel this great gift and resource to bring love and joy to our lives and relationships?

Ken Wilber describes Dennis Merzel’s Big Mind Process as “arguably the most important and original discovery in the last two centuries of Buddhism.”

Big Mind is rooted in Jungian Psychology and in Eastern Zen.
According to Dennis Merzel, there is a transcendent awareness – a Big Mind, a Big Heart – present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy. And yet we don’t know how to access it, we don’t know how to bring it into our awareness. We don’t know how to manifest it or embody it. With the Big Mind technique Merzel has found a way to realize this awareness into one’s life.

 

  • You are new to or exploring either Zen Buddhism or Jungian psychology, and feel drawn to both fields as a personal practice.
  • You are a therapist who wants to learn a new skill for either your practice or your personal life.
  • You are Jungian-oriented and interested in exploring Jung’s perspective of how Eastern philosophies should be approached in the West.
  • You want to learn the Jungian-based method of voice dialogue, and how Zen can be integrated for a Western mindset.
  • Understand the integration of voice dialogue and Zen Buddhism in the Big Mind practice.
  • Use the voice dialogue method with the Zen tradition in order to get to know and befriend different aspects of your own psyche / Big Mind.
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