Hello Gaia!
This is Jessica. I know you're used to getting these missives from Siona, but I really wanted the pleasure of introducing our partner this week.
Like you, I'm sure, I'm a spiritual and a practical person, and so I appreciate learning about those (rare!) practical spiritual tools: the sort we can use in the here-and-now to help deepen our experience of life. And so I'm proud to re-introduce our partners at
Big Mind. They've devoted themselves to offering techniques that help us grow and live our lives with greater understanding and in greater harmony with the world. It's a truly wonderful thing.
You may remember our newsletter featuring Big Mind from last Spring. Well, we'd like to give Gaia the opportunity to connect once again and learn a bit more about their organization and the treasures they have to impart. Most of those at Big Mind have been part of our own community from the very beginning and they are as excited as ever to share their wisdom with you, and it's an honor to pass along their note:
All of us here at Big Mind are proud to be a part of the Gaia community.
Like everyone at Gaia, we've got our own unique role in bringing about a shared vision. Ours is to help people make a leap into a new world consciousness, a new world view, that honors and respects people's lives, relationships and the world at large.
And so, we have a serious question for you…
What if you could have a wide range of deep insights into yourself, your relationships and the nature of the world in just a few hours?
The Big Mind method is designed to do just this. If you visit our Genpo.org website, you can watch a short video called Introduction to Big Mind Big Heart that will introduce you to a revolutionary method of self-inquiry that will awaken the grace, power and beauty within you.
Big Mind, the work of Dennis Genpo Merzel, Roshi, is our way to help create a more positive future. Genpo Roshi, as he's known, is one of the preeminent Zen Masters in the Western world, and he developed the Big Mind Big Heart method for awakening expressly for the purpose of bringing the 2500 year old wisdom of Zen to you in a form that's fun and easy. It's a remarkable process of facilitated self-discovery that we'd be honored to share with you.
Check out our site and watch Introduction to Big Mind Big Heart. You'll find you can easily learn to do Big Mind yourself, and start to immediately reap the benefits of this simple exercise. There's a whole array of materials to be found our website as well: you'll also see we offer Big Mind workshops and retreats all over the US and Europe, in case you want to explore the work with Genpo in person.
There, you can also sign up to our Big Mind Big Heart Newsletter, so that we can keep you informed of all the latest developments in the Big Mind community. It's our hope that you'll join us in adding your light to the sum of this light, so that we might all live together in peace and prosperity.
Brilliant, isn't it? It's beautiful to me how even new tools can transform our lives, especially those that start with a more profound connection with ourselves. And, I love how Big Mind brings together personal, communal and global transformation, which is, of course, what all of us on Gaia are striving for as well. :)
With Love & Hugs to all of your Big Hearts,
Jessica PS: If you're curious about learning more, I should add that on the Big Mind site you visit the section called
Ask Roshi. It's a forum where you can reach out and share your searching, spiritual questions about Zen, Big Mind and more with Genpo Roshi himself, and find out about the beautiful yearning questions others are asking.
