EMTC Manual, 1981
Enlightenment
Study Questions
Chapter 1
1. What is the most common and most serious error made by an Enlightenment Master?
2. What is the difference between an insight and an enlightenment experience?
3. How can a master determine whether a participant has had an enlightenment experience?
4. Define enlightenment.
5. Can a master determine whether a participant has had an enlightenment experience by observing symptoms?
6. Are there different kinds of enlightenment?
What is the difference between the kind of enlightenment experiences
one might have on an intensive and the experience of Buddha?
7. What would be the effect of telling someone on an Enlightenment Intensive
that they had had an enlightenment experience when they had not?
8. What part do verbal answers play in a master's determination
of whether a participant has had an enlightenment experience or not?
9. Explain why it is impossible to lose an enlightenment experience.
10. How would you handle a participant who insists that he has had a direct experience
but who, in your estimation, has not?
11. Is it necessary for a master to be able to tell if a participant has had an enlightenment experience?
If he cannot tell, what effect will this have on the intensive?
Enlightenment
Study Questions
Chapter 1
1. What is the most common and most serious error made by an Enlightenment Master?
2. What is the difference between an insight and an enlightenment experience?
3. How can a master determine whether a participant has had an enlightenment experience?
4. Define enlightenment.
5. Can a master determine whether a participant has had an enlightenment experience by observing symptoms?
6. Are there different kinds of enlightenment?
What is the difference between the kind of enlightenment experiences
one might have on an intensive and the experience of Buddha?
7. What would be the effect of telling someone on an Enlightenment Intensive
that they had had an enlightenment experience when they had not?
8. What part do verbal answers play in a master's determination
of whether a participant has had an enlightenment experience or not?
9. Explain why it is impossible to lose an enlightenment experience.
10. How would you handle a participant who insists that he has had a direct experience
but who, in your estimation, has not?
11. Is it necessary for a master to be able to tell if a participant has had an enlightenment experience?
If he cannot tell, what effect will this have on the intensive?