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Enlightenment
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What is an Enlightenment Intensive?
Select one of these
questions and sit down with a partner.
(You
could also work on What is life?, What is another?, or What is love?)
With confidence, from
a base of pure, open awareness, intend to know the truth directly using
your question as the focus. This is contemplation.
Communicate to your
partner whatever comes up from contemplating your question. Your partner
listens and understands, without judging or giving feedback.
Do this for about
12 hours a day for from three days to six weeks, half the time being
an active contemplator and half the time being an attentive listener.
Maintain silence,
one-pointed focus, and mindful presence with your question during sitting,
eating, resting, walking, sleeping, and all other non-partner activities.
The staff provides complete support so you are not distracted from your
contemplation.
Just go deeper and
deeper and deeper. Go through whatever you have to go through. See where
it takes you.
This is an Enlightenment
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Intensive Listings |
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EVENTS PAGE - many Enlightenment Intensives are held each month around the world.
To see a list of Intensives, click the link.
The Events list is updated regularly, so check back often.
Not all Intensives are on this list. You can also check the Other Related Websites listed below for more Intensives as well as for additional information about Intensives. |
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Teledyads and Virtual Dyad Meditation Events
The Teledyad Network was created so that dyad meditation can be done with anyone, anywhere, anytime in the world using the phone or internet. Through the Teledyad Network you will be able to create your own dyads and access links to join Virtual Dyad Meditation days and evenings. |
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Lawrence
Noyes Seminars
with Lawrence Noyes |
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United
Kingdom
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Barry and Emma McGuinness |
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Australia and USA
S. E. L. F. - Spiritual Enlightenment, Love & Friendship Foundation, Inc.
with zYoah Wexler, Phd |
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Victoria,
B.C.
Sammasati Seminars
with Sarah Fleury & Fiona Murphy |
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Enlightenment Intensives in
Vancouver
B.C.
with Murray Kennedy |
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Italy
Arca Formazione
with Antonello D'Amelio |
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answerwithin.com
with Carol Hicks |
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Italy
Self Individuation
with Fiorella Pasotti
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True Heart/True Mind Enlightenment Intensives in Bar Harbor, Maine
with Paul Weiss |
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Bhava
in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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Jamar Enlightenment Center |
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Helios
Centre for Illuminated Living,
Rye, N.Y.
with Greg Branson and Trevor
Iszatt |
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Cosmic
Rhythm, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
with Shri Akhilesh |
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Enlightenment Intensives with John Stone in Wisconsin |
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Living Our True Nature with
Yves-Rakendra, world-wide
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Foundation For Union With Truth with Wayne Carter and Deanne Cousins |
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Enlightenment Intensives, Silent Retreats & Private Session with
Simon Thomson. |
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True Awakening - Enlightenment Intensives with Russell Allen Scott. Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Self & Other Newsletter Archive |
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These
newsletters are a great resource for learning about Enlightenment
Intensives. They include articles written by masters and participants,
accounts of enlightenment experiences, and other inspirational writings.
 Go
to the Newsletter
Archive
(You need the Adobe
Acrobat reader to read the PDF versions. You can get it for free at www.adobe.com.) |
Books, Videos, and Stuff
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A Booklet About Dogzen
by Edrid
Cultivating Naked Awareness is a little 50-page booklet about Dogzen. It's presented as a series of 10 lessons about how to cultivate naked awareness in your daily life. This is similar to the material originally presented in the Dogzen Email Newsletters, with some additions and improvements. If you want to practice Dogzen or if you want to start your own Dogzen group, this booklet provides most of the information you need to get started.
The book comes with an audio CD of the Preparation for Contemplation meditation. You just put the CD in your CD player, sit down, and go where the guided meditation takes you. It leaves you in a really nice place.
If you will be doing Dyads, you might also want to order a Five-Minute Bells CD
(see below).
To order the book, send $7 ($5 for the book and $2 for the mailing envelope and postage) to Dogzen, 14207 SE Fairoaks Avenue, Oak Grove, OR 97267. Make the check payable to Ed Riddle. Be sure to include your shipping address with your order.
Free PDF version: if you don't need a paper copy or the CD, you can just download this PDF version. (It is a sligltly later edition, with a few corrections and additions.)
Click to download: Cultivating Naked Awareness.pdf |
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Five-Minute Bells for Dyads
A CD for pacing dyads, for Enlightenment Intensives, Dogzen practices, or clearing Dyads. These have the standard three-bell sequence spaced at 4:40 (four-minute and forty-second) intervals.
$2 each, plus $2 for shipping. If you get two CDs, just pay once for the shipping. They'll both go in the same mailer.
To order, send a check made out to Ed Riddle to Dogzen, 14207 SE Fairoaks Avenue, Oak Grove, OR 97267. Be sure to include your shipping address with your order. |
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The Enlightenment Intensive, by Lawrence Noyes
A definitive description of the Enlightenment Intensive by one of its leading masters. |
Polishing the Mirror
A free booklet by Jeremiah Jeff Love. |
The Quantum Gods
A book about enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive by Jeremiah Jeff Love. |
An Introduction to Enlightenment Intensive Retreats
VHS video by Jeremiah Jeff Love. (Click the Intro Video link on the home page.) |
Tatagata-Style Tea Ceremony
A western version of the traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony, emphasizing the cultivation of full presence and being in the moment.
The Tea Ceremony can help you cultivate the state of naked awareness that is described in the Dogzen practices. |
Enlightenment
DVD video about enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive by Jack Wexler. An excellent introduction to the Enlightenment Intensive. |
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