Big Mind Big Heart: Finding Your Way
by Dennis Genpo Merzel
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Book Reviews of Big Mind Big Heart: Finding Your Way
Book Review: Dharma before Dogma
Summary: 5 Stars
In this book what I found was the permission to be the one who knew myself. The guidance to see myself better and discover my potential while totally in the drivers seat.
This process has the capacity to help us support ourselves by deeply knowing ourselves and accepting ourselves as we are, from dark to light, wisdom to ignorance.
As I explore further the inner aspects that I learned to meet with the help of this book, I can see that I give myself more and more permission to be human and to live up to the potential that I secretly have envisioned throughout my life. I need not fear owning my endless imperfections as well as I need not fear owning my immeasurable beauty. I can consciously choose to be this human being, this miracle of flesh and spirit.
Thank you Genpo, for putting the dharma before dogma.
Book Review: A wonderful "how-to" guide to unlocking the power, greatness, and love within oneself.
Summary: 5 Stars
Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel presents Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way, a self-help guide to sorting through the sea of one's mind and reaching for the "Big Mind" state - existing as ever-present, oceanic, "just being" awareness. Traditionally, reaching such awareness requires years of meditation practice; yet Big Mind, Big Heart offers insights to quickly and efficiently achieving the state. An accompanying audio CD guides the reader through the step-by-step process, revealing that practitioners do not need to "attain" the awareness - human beings already are this awareness, and can learn to shift to it, uncovering the great wisdom and compassion required to live happier, healthier lives. A wonderful "how-to" guide to unlocking the power, greatness, and love within oneself.
Book Review: What an eye opener!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This great handy book is so simple to follow. The path into your hearth/mind is opened up wide and clear infront of your eyes. All you need to do is to take the first step to follow the basic instructions and keep on going one step after the other. Then for sure it will lead you to a glimpse into the real nature of your soul, as it did me several times.
I have been practicing meditation for 20 years and I have found this book revealing and cutting straight to the heart.
The basic techniques used by the Zen Master Genpo Merzel are Voice Dialogue and Meditation both of which are effortlessly explained in an easily understandable manner even for the very basic beginner.
A great and wonderful read challenging in its direct and vivid simplicity.
Book Review: Big Mind Big Heart is a process
Summary: 5 Stars
There are many Zen and Spirtual books out there and this one used with the "Big Mind/Big Heart Revealed" video is one of the most dramatic processe to have an actual Transcendent experience that I have had. There are many Life Changing books out there that do not give you a method to have the actual experience of going beyond your dualistic look on life.
My wife and I are very "skeptical" on the promises that other books have made and we where given a way to have the experince that we have had briefly while Meditating for over 10 years.
For those who are looking for another no subtance "Life of the Budda" book this is not it... If you are lookinf for a absolutely dramatic feeling of your soul then read the book and use the video.
Book Review: Be Careful Before You Buy this Book
Summary: 1 Stars
If you are interested in learning about authentic buddhism or meditation, this book will not get you there. I bought it with the expectation that that is what it was indeed about, but ended up dissapointed by the dawning awareness that it is not really a book about zen at all, even though one could conclude otherwise based on a superficial perusal of other reviews, and on seeing the cover of the book describing the author as a "zen master". I gather that he actually is one, but this particular book is really more of a teaser or advertisment for a kind of psycho-therapeutic process that is only tangentially related to zen. So, you might want to note the difference before you decide to buy this book. No need for you to make the same mistake that I did.