Big Mind by Genpo Roshi

Big Mind by Genpo Roshi

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Dennis Paul Merzel, also known as Genpo Roshi, is a Zen teacher and priest in the Soto and Rinzai Zen Buddhist schools and abbot of Kanzeon Inc. since 1988 and the creator of the big mind process in 1999. Since his initial awakening in 1971, his goal and passion have remained unchanged: to help others realize their true nature and continually deepen their own practice, as well as help others to think carefully about this life and clarify the path. Swimming champion and All-American water polo player in his youth, Merzel received his master’s degree from the University of Southern California in 1968. Upon awakening, he abandoned his career as a schoolteacher and lifeguard and lived for a year alone in a hut in the mountains near San Luis Obispo. In 1972, he met his Zen teacher Taizan, Maezumi Roshi, and then moved to Los Angeles to study with him. He lived there for the next twelve years, becoming a Zen Buddhist monk in October 1973. In September 1980, a year after completing his koan study, he became the second successor to Maezumi Roshi in the Dharma. In April 1981, he completed the Tsuise ceremony at the Eiheiji and Sojiji temples in Japan, which signified the authenticity of his transmission of the Dharma by the governing body of Zen Buddhism Soto in Japan, becoming the third Zen priest outside Japan to be offered the title Dai Osho (Great Priest ) in the Zen Soto tradition. From 1980 until he left the Los Angeles Zen Center in 1984, he served as a director under the direction of Maezumi Roshi. Genpo Roshi was the first Soto Zen teacher in Poland (1983), the Netherlands (1983) and Germany (1983) and the second to bring him to France (1983) and the UK (1982). He founded the international Sangha Kanson in 1982. In October 1988, he was appointed abbot of the Hoshinji Temple in Bar Harbor, Maine, the third Westerner to be appointed abbot of the Shinsanshi ceremony in the Western world. In 1991, the Kanzeon and Roshi Council closed the Zen Center at Bar Harbor and moved Kanzeon to Oregon, where he continued to teach with a group of his students. In 1993, he moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and established the Zen Kanson Center there as the headquarters of Sangha Kanzon International.

In 1995, it was recognized as the headquarters of Soto School in Japan as Dendokeshi, one of the first senior Western Zen teachers to receive such recognition. He continued to study with Maezumi Roshi until his death in 1995. He received the Inka, the final seal of approval as a Zen master, from Roshi Bernie Glassman in 1996, becoming the first successor to Inka Glassman and the second to receive Inka in the line of Maezumi Roshi. In the same year, he became president of White Plum Asanga, the successor to Maezumi Roshi, after Roshi Bernie Glassman retired, and held that position until 2007. Today Genpo Roshi is the President of Big Mind Inc. and Abbot of Kanzeon Inc., now known as the Big Mind Big Heart international community. In 1999, he created the Big Mind Process ™, also known as the Big Mind / Big Heart, which philosopher Ken Wilber called “arguably the most important and original discovery in the last two centuries of Buddhism.” he expanded and enriched not only the teachings of Zen, but also spiritual practices in other traditions, allowing thousands of people from all walks of life and religious backgrounds to have revival with little or no prior study of consciousness. It is used in many fields, including psychotherapy, law, medicine, education, mediation, business, athletics, social work, family therapy, and working with prison inmates, hospital patients and the dying. Roshi continues to train people to bring the Big Mind process and Big Heart Zen into the world, and remains deeply committed to their ongoing evolution. He also continues to explore new insights and ingenious ways of communicating the essence of Zen, which awakens to our essential nature, free from all dogma, suddenly and immediately. He views zazen, koans and big minds as three complementary practices for actualizing the path, along with other traditional forms of Zen Buddhism such as prayer, chanting and devotional practices, all wonderful expressions of teachings for awakening and living with deep wisdom and compassion. His publications include The Eye Never Sleeps, Beyond Sanity and Madness, 24/7 Dharma and the Way of the Human Being, a novel called The Fool Who Thought He was God, and many DVDs. His book Big Mind / Big Heart: Finding Your Way has been published in fourteen other languages: Dutch Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Danish, Korean, and Chinese. His latest book, Spitting Bones, A Zen Master’s 45 Years Journey, was published in 2016.

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