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Time: Zen Master Genpo Roshi’s Perspective
Today’s session promises to be different from all of our other teleseminars. It we be more spiritual, more experiential and will turn our concept of time upside down. Get ready for a paradigm shift.
It’s vital to have the right tools for time management and productivity AND it’s important to shake up our perceptions once in a while. The interview with Genpo Rochi is gonna be of the shaking kind…
Genpo Rochi has over 35 years of Zen meditation practice and is an accomplished athlete, successful businessperson, and the respected author of 5 books. He is the creator of the Big Mind•Big Heart practice, and is the Founder and Abbot of Kanzeon Zen Center and Kanzeon Sangha International.
As a Zen Master, Genpo will give you a whole different perspective on time that you may have never considered before. Genpo believes that in order to overcome our barriers and struggles with time we must practice self-investigation. In His Big Mind•Big Heart Genpo helps participants overcome the unhealthy patterns that keep them stuck and hinder them from living a better, more fulfilling life. At the end of this teleseminar not only will you better understand a Zen Master’s approach to time but, you will have learned a little more about yourself.
“Zen” has abecome a marketing buzzword in many Western countries. Today, we’ll get a real taste of what Zen really means.
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Please add a comment below by sharing one or two main realizations you had about yourself or about time from the Genpo Rochi interview.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I really enjoyed this teleseminar, the #1 thing that I took away from Genpo, concerning how he chooses what to do with his time now… He said “I do what I want”… and I found this to be really empowering, it’s like coming from a perspective of abundance and love; living that; instead of coming from a place of need, etc..
Cheers.
- Julius
November 6th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I appreciate that a Zen Master as accomplished as Genpo Roshi can relate to burnout, and losing passion for his work. It was insightful to me, that his experience of burnout became his motivation to look for a new way of manifesting his love of teaching and Zen- and out of that came his development of the Big Mind approach. I have been very fortunate to have participated in Big Mind workshops that Genpo Roshi has taught at Kanzeon, but hadn’t put the Big Mind concept into practice regarding my ability to work productively. I choose to be a business owner. I choose to do this work, and remembering that its my choice helps me be more motivated, productive, focused, and joyful about my work.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
What’s an ordinary mortal to do? There are things I must do that I would rather not and people I must be with and I would rather not. I don’t hate it / them or feel victimized. It’s just ordinary life. His idea of choosing only what you want is not that useful to me. He has some interesting ideas though, and I plan to look into his techniques.
Vernel
November 6th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
This was a real mind-bending interview, it was clear to me that I need to lift my awareness to another level and look at life from a higher and more powerful perspective - esp. at how I can be more of service to others as a driving force for what I do
November 6th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I have put a lot of resources into understanding the nature of dual existence; funny, I have not applied what I have experienced to the realm of time management. Ill just call that “The Big Funny”. Genpo Roshi was a much needed and grand dip back in the well, Thank you Bill Baren coaching for a bold and refreshing choice of speakers!
The most important insight I learned from this call on time management was the exact same answer I’ve been working on in my coaching practice: how to bring spiritual awareness into our everyday lives.
Thank you thank you thank you!
Laurel
November 7th, 2008 at 11:44 am
In my “other” job, I teach yoga and the more my practice evolves, the more I realize that the real yoga is the one that happens off the mat. I enjoyed seeing many of the parallels between Genpo Roshi’s teachings and yoga philosophy. My main take-away was that the work life, personal life, and spiritual life are all inter-related and the key is integrating these together so the three are aligned while still remaining separate aspects of your life.