Ep. 55 - Genpo Roshi
Synchronicity with Noah Lampert
Noah Lampert
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2016
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
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Genpo Roshi stops by Synchronicity.
Dennis Paul Merzel, also known as Genpo Roshi, is a Zen Priest, a teacher in both the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen Buddhism, Abbot of Kanzeon since 1988, and creator of the Big Mind Process in 1999.
From his initial awakening in 1971 his purpose and his passion have remained the same: to assist others to realize their true nature and to continuously deepen his own practice as well as assisting others in carefully reflecting on this life and clarifying the Way.
He has a new book out now called Spitting Out the Bones: A Zen Master's 45 Year Journey
Topics Discussed
- Zen
- Meditation
- The Monastic Life
- Not getting caught up in rituals
- N0-Self Experiences
- Non-experience
- Becoming a non-returner
- The Bodhisattva Vow
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, learn the art of relaxation. |
| 0:05.0 | To me, that's the secret of life. |
| 0:09.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:11.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:13.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:15.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:17.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:20.0 | This is synchronicity. This is Synchronicity. |
| 0:21.8 | This is Synchronicity. |
| 0:22.8 | My guest today is Genpo Roshi. And Genpo and I had a wonderful conversation about a week ago, a week and a half ago. That was before Donald Trump was elected president. That happened last night. So I don't know exactly when you're going to be listening to this, |
| 0:54.4 | but if you are, this is the day after Donald Trump was elected president about two, three |
| 0:59.7 | in the morning. |
| 1:01.2 | Even though it became clear before that, that he was probably going to be president, even |
| 1:05.3 | though I woke up thinking that wasn't going to happen like many of you. |
| 1:09.4 | I tweeted a lot last night |
| 1:11.2 | that's how i process things how i process miami dolphins games which seems so oh so insignificant |
| 1:17.1 | right now um this is how i process difficult things public things um and uh one tweet that i think |
| 1:24.9 | actually still stands out and as accurate is about like 12. 1 a.m. I tweeted out. It feels like we just took mushrooms six hours ago, doesn't it? And it does. It still does, right? I mean, it really is like kind of a psychedelic reality. So many people I know, so many people |
| 1:45.7 | across the world are in awe that this has taken place. I think a lot of people at first, like in the |
| 1:53.0 | Republican Party, took Donald Trump as a joke, no possible way. He's not really saying anything of |
| 1:57.8 | substance. He's just kind of yelling things at people and different classes of people. It's a campaign that is built seemingly on hatred and intolerance and xenophobia |
| 2:07.0 | and racism. And just it seemed like a really obvious choice. If anything, this election should |
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