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Kensho Research Study Part 3:Â What Really Happens When Kensho Arises
You’re sitting there in the quiet of the retreat room. Nothing dramatic. No lights, no visions. Just a sudden clarity. Everything becomes strangely simple and lucid. Trauma that once defined you feels like a distant ripple. Your senses open. Like waking up from a dream… there is an instant knowing that you were never the…
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Kensho Research Study Part 2: The Hidden Blockages to Awakening Are Revealed
Breakthrough Research on the I AM Retreat: This follow-up study aligns with the broader Kensho-Samadhi Research Project, which examined life experiences, self-inquiry practices, and retreat outcomes across participants. The big picture that emerges from both studies is clear and liberating: kensho (awakening to your true nature) arises not from adding external tools or intensified conditions,…
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Kensho Research Study Part 1: What Leads to Spiritual Awakenings? A Study on Life Experiences and Self-Inquiry Practices
A kensho research study at the Samadhi Center (Canada) With Dr. Jeffrey Overall The Global Institute for Conscious EconomicsLink to PDF full article Blog post by Daniel Schmidt: Kensho is a Japanese word from Zen that means “seeing true nature”. It refers to the direct experience of awakening beyond name and form, unmediated by the…
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The Soul, The Koshas, and “No Self”
Liberation is when one realizes the emptiness of all aspects of maya, or all aspects of the soul. It is not merely an intellectual realization, but an awakening of emptiness itself as inseparable from all things. Liberation is a collapse of the duality or apparent distinction between soul and no self. The soul…
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Concentration and Surrender- The Two Fundamental Aspects of Meditation
Two aspects or dimensions of meditation can be found in most traditions in which the perennial wisdom flourishes. The two aspects have been called yin and yang, shakti and shiva, or energy and consciousness and many other names throughout history. These two aspects reflect the nature of the dualistic world in which we live.…
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Awakening and Enlightenment: Always Being Buddha, Always Becoming Buddha
“The truth that transcends the intellect will not be seen by means of the intellect. The point of non-action will not be reached by means of deliberate action. If you want to achieve the point of non-action transcending thought, sever the root of mind itself and rest in naked awareness!” ~ Tilopa, Mahamudra Upadesha   Meditation…
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The Pathless Path
“There is no path, but only a fool wouldn’t follow it.” The path to Samadhi is not the sort of path where one puts one foot in front of another in order to get to some destination. The path is a stripping away of illusion, a letting go of identification with a limited…
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Follow the White Rabbit: Entheogens, Meditation and the Path of Awakening
Sometimes strange and unusual opportunities show up in our lives. We are free to ignore them and continue life as usual, or we may feel a stirring inside to answer a call to adventure. Like Alice we may choose to venture down the rabbit hole into strange lands. This is the beginning of…
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Samadhi Guided Meditations
The Samadhi guided meditation series is a practical way to realize Samadhi in your life. It is only through deep inquiry into the self that one will truly understand what the film Samadhi points towards. Whether you are getting started in meditation, or you are interested in deepening your meditation practice, this series of guided…