Learn How to Meditate from a Zen Buddhist Priest - Genpo Roshi - #425
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Want to learn the best, most relaxing way to meditate? Dennis Paul Merzel, also known as Genpo Roshi, is a Zen Priest and teacher in the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen Buddhism. Since his initial awakening over 45 years ago, his passion and purpose has been to assist others to realize their true nature, and to continuously deepen his own journey to enlightenment. In this truly fascinating and intimate conversation, the author of “Spitting Out the Bones: A Zen Master’s 45 Year Journey” demonstrates his meditation method right down to the breath, so that everyone can experience the relaxing nature of this ancient practice. Genpo and Dave also dig into his Big Mind/Big Heart Process, his spiritual awakenings, his five stages of development, and his views on celibacy, monogamy/polyamory, and honesty. The ultimate guide to meditation and illumination is right here in this hour, so don’t miss it!
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| 1:07.7 | It's a really, really impactful episode. You're going to learn a new kind of meditation, |
| 1:13.1 | and you're going to hear fascinating stories from a spiritual teacher who has spent 40 plus |
| 1:19.0 | years going up and going down and just learning great things. We're going to talk about the nature of |
| 1:24.0 | the ego. We're going to talk about polyamory. We're going to talk about monogamy and we're going to |
| 1:29.2 | talk about all sorts of things that are going on inside your head. This is one of the deeper, |
| 1:33.9 | more spiritual, more introspective interviews that I've done. You want to hear the whole thing. |
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