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Well & Good NYC: Buddhist Genpo Roshi Offers Transformation in a New York Minute

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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.

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April 16, 2010

Genpo Roshi & The Big Mind Process by Tom Huston

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On Monday night, EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen and many of his students engaged in a fascinating and powerful dialogue with Zen Master Genpo Merzel at the EnlightenNext World Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. Genpo Roshi was delightfully funny and disarmingly frank, displaying an impressive spiritual depth born of 37 years of Zen practice and teaching

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July 9, 2009

Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Newsletter - BE

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Question:

Addiction is defined as “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, such as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.” What makes so many of us prone to addiction in its various forms? What causes us to be open to this enslavement? And how do we begin to undo it?

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May 29, 2009

Monk & The Master, Part 3 - Zen & Cash

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When the spiritual and the marketplace mind are no longer disowned, we see them as two corners of the triangle, rather than as opposites, embracing them both from the apex.

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February 16, 2009

Bodhi TV -Big Mind - Dutch Article

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De kritiek op Big Mind richt zich soms op de manier waarop het wordt gepromoot, soms het
proces zeif en sporadisch op de persoon die het heeft vormgegeven.

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February 10, 2009

Monk & The Master, Part 2 - Zen & Sex

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A therapist friend recently joked with me that everyone outside a relationship is hoping to get in one, and everyone in a relationship is either trying to change his or her partner and/or get out completely

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January 7, 2009

Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Newsletter - BE

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Maybe the first problem is that we have expectations that it is going to be any other way than it is.

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December 25, 2008
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