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Apparently spring is Buddhist season in NYC. After a long depressing winter, now, in the span of six sunny weeks, we have Genpo Roshi, Krishna Das, and the Dalai Lama in town. But Buddhism is not just a fair-weather friend, and neither is Zen master Dennis Genpo Merzel, who goes by Genpo Roshi (“Roshi” means “venerable teacher”) and who comes to Manhattan a few times a year to teach Big Mind, a form of Buddhism that he founded.
It seems the perfect confluence of life events may have brought Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi to Buddhism. Or at least prepared his mind for Buddhism to find him.
Everywhere I turn in our crazed city, people pop brain veins, commit acts of monstrous violence, belittle people they love, short-circuit at work, jump from high windows, road-rage at 75 mph.
The Big Mind, Big Heart awareness is a very confirming and profoundly felt state that all people have access to but may not be aware of until they make a shift," said Roshi.