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.
Enlightenment Intensive Dyads
Here is a complete description of the dyad as it is used for Enlightenment Intensives and Zoom Dyad Retreats. This is good for newcomers as well as people who
have attended these practices and would like a refresher.Click here to read: Enlightenment Intensive Dyads.
Instructional Video on Dyad Communication
This beautiful video teaches the process and guidelines for participating in Zoom dyad gatherings. It was created by Katrin Potticary, founder of Path of the Heart Counseling, LLC, to introduce dyads to her counseling clients. (www.pathofheart.us)
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlQqtB-7JY.
Early History of the Enlightenment IntensiveThis is a talk given by Edrid at the first “Master’s Talks and Dyads on Zoom” session created by Smaran and held on April 6, 2022 on Zoom. Click here to listen.
Something New to Try: One-Minute Plunge MeditationsWe approach a one-minute meditation as a "plunge." You plunge into it. You cast away, let go of, and drop everything. You dive in. Your focus is 100% on your topic. You become completely open to the truth that your topic points to.
Intensive Listings
Many Enlightenment Intensives are held each month around the world. You can find them on the web at various sites. Try:
- Enlightenment-intensive.net
- Origin: www.highsierra.org
- On Facebook: Enlightenment Intensives: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5605309107
Or just Google “Enlightenment Intensives”
