Enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive
This is the first of several audio modules of the booklet, Enlightenment by Charles Berner.
It is presented and read by Yoah Wexler.
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The following is the book, Enlightenment, authored by Charles Berner and illustrated by Peter Max.
copyright SELF Foundation 2010
Preface
The Enlightenment ebook is an introduction to the concepts and practices of enlightenment and the Enlightenment Intensive. It was written by Charles Berner and illustrated with black and white line drawings and a color cover by Peter Max. It was originally published by the Institute of Ability in about 1970 and resonates the timeless wisdom of the Perennial Philosophy.
This ebook has been re-produced from the original publication with additional graphics and minimal editing by Yoah Wexler.
If you are interested in participating in the Enlightenment Intensive retreat, Yoah Wexler facilitates them three times a year at the SELF Foundation retreat centre in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. Enlightenment Intensives are also facilitated by individuals in many countries around the world.
This ebook has been re-produced from the original publication with additional graphics and minimal editing by Yoah Wexler.
If you are interested in participating in the Enlightenment Intensive retreat, Yoah Wexler facilitates them three times a year at the SELF Foundation retreat centre in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. Enlightenment Intensives are also facilitated by individuals in many countries around the world.
Charles and Ava Berner, c 1967
Introduction
The Institute of Ability was organized to forward a spiritually based body of information and methods of interpersonal relating that was developed by Charles and Ava Berner. The work of the Institute of Ability, includes besides the Enlightenment technique included in this brochure, a complete system of general and deep intimate relating, a new theology of life, and a full system of living. The Institute of Ability is a California nonprofit religious corporation with tax exempt status. Its headquarters at Crystal Valley, California includes a training school for practitioners and a 40 acre retreat for holding Enlightenment Intensives, private helping sessions to remove communication barriers, and facilities to regain one’s health.
The Institute of Ability was organized to forward a spiritually based body of information and methods of interpersonal relating that was developed by Charles and Ava Berner. The work of the Institute of Ability, includes besides the Enlightenment technique included in this brochure, a complete system of general and deep intimate relating, a new theology of life, and a full system of living. The Institute of Ability is a California nonprofit religious corporation with tax exempt status. Its headquarters at Crystal Valley, California includes a training school for practitioners and a 40 acre retreat for holding Enlightenment Intensives, private helping sessions to remove communication barriers, and facilities to regain one’s health.
Definition of Enlightenment
Enlightenment literally means to put light onto so one can be conscious of what one has set out to experience.
Enlightenment is the direct experience of the truth.
In the case of self enlightenment, it is the direct experience of the truths of you. By direct experience is meant, by no way or via. Not by seeing, thinking, believing, deciding, reasoning, feeling, or any way “by way of”.
Direct experience of the truth is Enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the direct experience of the truth.
In the case of self enlightenment, it is the direct experience of the truths of you. By direct experience is meant, by no way or via. Not by seeing, thinking, believing, deciding, reasoning, feeling, or any way “by way of”.
Direct experience of the truth is Enlightenment.
The first important, well documented enlightenment was that of Buddha.
The Role of Enlightenment in Life
Man has lived on earth for a long time and has managed to survive with very few individuals having become enlightened. A person could live his whole life and not approach direct experience of the truth of himself.
What is the advantage of being enlightened?
Being enlightened as a major factor in determining whether or not one can be happy. Happiness consists of one consciously overcoming barriers towards one’s goal in life. The key is that oneself must be doing the overcoming of the barriers, not a personality or anything with which one has become confused. Doing anything, or nothing, is a great joy, if it is you, the actual true you, who was doing it. If you’re conscious, by direct experience, of who and what you are, you can act directly from you.
You speak with honest authority and are not just relaying the learned information. The subjective state beyond doubt and beyond certainty of consciousness of one’s self enables one to be happy by living life from one’s true self.
This state is the state of enlightenment.
What is the advantage of being enlightened?
Being enlightened as a major factor in determining whether or not one can be happy. Happiness consists of one consciously overcoming barriers towards one’s goal in life. The key is that oneself must be doing the overcoming of the barriers, not a personality or anything with which one has become confused. Doing anything, or nothing, is a great joy, if it is you, the actual true you, who was doing it. If you’re conscious, by direct experience, of who and what you are, you can act directly from you.
You speak with honest authority and are not just relaying the learned information. The subjective state beyond doubt and beyond certainty of consciousness of one’s self enables one to be happy by living life from one’s true self.
This state is the state of enlightenment.