Meet the teachers carrying forward Genpo Roshi's Big Mind · Big Heart work — guiding students through the Big Mind Process and the living Zen tradition.
Zen Master & Founder
Genpo Roshi
Founder of the Big Mind Process. For more than five decades, Dennis Genpo Merzel has made the deepest insights of Zen available to modern life.
Zen Master
Kanchi Roshi
A successor in the Kanzeon lineage, Kanchi Roshi received Inka from Genpo Roshi in 2022 and founded the Salt Lake Zen Group.
Sensei
Keiyaku Sensei
A student of Genpo Roshi since 2006, Kamie Keiyaku Sensei received Dharma Transmission in 2025. A retired interventional cardiologist, she shares Big Mind and Zen in Wisconsin.
Zen Master
Mingzhou Guo
Fifteenth-generation descendant of the Taoist master Shouzhen Guo. He received the Buddha's mind-seal from Genpo Roshi in 2022 and teaches Zen, Taoism, Taiji, and calligraphy.
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