Enlightenment
Intensives

and

Dogzen

What is an Enlightenment Intensive?

Select one of these questions and sit down with a partner.

• Who am I?
• What am I?

(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 Intensive.

Many Enlightenment Intensives are held each month around the world. To see a list of scheduled Intensives, click here.

This list is updated regularly to keep it current, so check back often.

Not all Intensives are on this list. You can also check the Intensive websites listed below for more Intensives as well as additional information about Intensives.

Links to Other Intensive Websites

Self & Other Newsletter Archive

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

	A New Book About Dogzen by Edrid Cultivating Naked Awareness is a little 50-page book 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 all 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.
	Five-Minute Bells for Dyads CDs 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 all go in the same mailer. Specify any of the following versions: 4:40-minute Bells [Listen]. 4:40-minute Gongs [Listen]. 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.
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 VHS video about enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive by Jack Wexler. An excellent introduction to the Enlightenment Intensive.