Mindfulness

The Big Heart Integration Process

Tom Goddard — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:39:47 -0400

Start: 11/15/2008 - 1:00pm

End: 11/15/2008 - 5:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Big Heart is an experiential group process designed to help participants discover, experience and appreciate their lives in a new way. People of all backgrounds have found it to be a terrific way to identify and work through the unhealthy patterns that can sabotage our best efforts. By fostering a compassionate exploration of the intricate network of the diverse dimensions of the inner self, the Big Heart process empowers participants to live richer, fuller lives.

Big Heart is a novel technique of self exploration that combines tools of western psychology with the teachings of eastern non-dual traditions. Participants in this non-denominational process emerge with the realization that they now can answer their most pressing questions about their lives with a greater level of compassion and wisdom than they previously thought possible.

There is no preparation or training needed in order to participate in Big Heart. Life itself has provided all the preparation you need.

Meditation Can Boost Compassion

Tom Goddard — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:19:57 -0400

In what will be absolutely no surprise to practitioners of mindfulness in all traditions, researchers have found evidence that meditation may be able to increase one's compassion.

While meditators have reported this for several millenia, what makes it interesting is that the study is focusing on the neuroscientific aspects of the phenomenon, or what Integral Theorists might call the "upper-right quadrant". Like it or not, meditators, Western culture requires this sort of inquiry, in addition to individual ("upper-left") and collective ("lower-left") reports that validate this finding from the inside of our experience.

Big Mind * Big Heart -- Washington DC -- with Master D. Genpo Merzel

Tom Goddard — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:18:19 -0500

Start: 03/09/2008 - 1:30pm

End: 03/09/2008 - 6:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi, one of the preeminent Zen Masters in the Western world, has developed a unique and revolutionary approach for transmitting the authentic teachings that emerged from Buddha's enlightenment experience. With a mastery born of more than thirty years of teaching, Genpo Roshi has enabled thousands of participants in Big Mind workshops to gain profound insights and taste for themselves the illuminating experience from which Buddhism and all the world's great religions originate.