Big Mind/Big Heart Revealed
While I’m not a Buddhist, I often seem to find myself drawn to Buddhist teachings to help define my own spirituality. Recently, I came across a two DVD set called Big Mind/Big Heart
Revealed. The DVDs are powerful. Simply put, Zen Master Genpo Roshi calls upon various parts of our being (The Controller, The Fixer, The Damaged Self, Big Heart, etc) and allows that part of us to speak. This helps make one much more aware of where the feelings and thoughts we have originate. After watching these DVDs, I found myself more understanding and compassionate of why I react to things as I do.
From the Web site:
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. In The Big Mind DVD Roshi leads us on a voyage of self-discovery through the basic aspects of mind that he often explores in his workshops. The first disc takes participants through the personal, dualistic, aspects of mind; the second through the transpersonal, transcendent.
Experience The Power of Grace
In April, 2006, I got the chance to attend Cheryl Richardson’s
Experience The Power of Grace workshop. It was incredible.
Cheryl is selling a 6-CD audio recording of her workshop. I highly recommend purchasing them. From the Web site:
Join Cheryl as she explores ways to see and experience the power of grace in your life. As you listen to this six-CD set, you’ll learn:
-The six stages of awakening to grace.
-How to see your life through the lens of grace How to see signs of grace in your every day life.
-How to identify your “spiritual change agents.”
-How to surrender during those times when you desperately want to control the outcome.
-How to trust in Divine timing when you want something right now.
-How to use life’s challenges as a call to spiritual action.
-Why balancing activity with silence is crucial to experiencing grace, and how to easily develop a consistent practice of silence.
-How to become a conduit of grace for others.
-Fascinating brain research about the power of meditation.
The Secret
I’ve begun to become more conscious of the Law of Attraction and apply it more to my life. One of the things that really helped me to better understand attraction was a documentary a friend told me about called .
From the official Web site:
This ground-breaking feature length movie presentation reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries to reach you. This is The Secret to everything–the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth:
everything you have ever wanted. In this astonishing program are ALL the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret. For the first time in history, the world’s leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret that utterly transformed the lives of every person who ever knew it–Plato, Newton, Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Einstein. Now YOU will know The Secret. And it can change your life forever.
Byron Katie video
By chance I came across videos of a woman named Byron Katie. She does something she calls “The Work”. Her creation is a 4-question process you go through in order to challenge your thoughts. So often, we believe what we think is truth. When we see that, often times, it’s not, the experience can be incredibly freeing. Check out this video:
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