LIVE ZEN: THE ART OF ENLIGHTENMENT:
Satsang with Giten
February - April, 2021, 1700 SEK
Ten Thursday evenings
Course language in Sweden: Swedish
GITEN ON ENLIGHTENMENT
"ENLIGHTENMENT IS AS EASY AS DRINKING A GLASS OF WATER"
"Enlightenment is to dissolve into the silence."
"Enlightenment is our deepest inner being."
"Enlightenment is to go beyond the ego, which is separated from life, and to discover our authentic being, which is one with existence."
"Enlightenment is to discover our being. Enlightenment is to discover the joy, silence and beauty of our being."
"Enlightenment is to realize that we already are what we are seeking."
"Enlightenment is our inner nature. Enlightenment is our being. Enlightenment is not a happening, which we have to work for. Enlightenment has already happened in our being. It is the fragrance of our life, of our being."
"Enlightenment is to find the light within, which overflows and spreads in all directions."
"The truth about enlightenment is that we are afraid of enlightenment, because enlightenment means that we have to lose ourselves. Jesus described this like we have to forget ourselves to find ourselves."
"The key to enlightenment is trust, trust in ourselves, trust in others and trust in life."
“Enlightenment is the realization that all is as it should be. Everything is perfect as it is. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve. Enlightenment is a state of non-doing, of effortlessness. Enlightenment is the feeling that you are at home in existence. You are part of the whole. You don't exist separately, all separation has disappeared. Enlightenment is the understanding that all is good and that all is an tremendous harmony.”
"Enlightenment is to discover the eternity of our being. Enlightenment is to discover that there is no death, that death does not exist, that death is an illusion."
"Modern Western psychology does not know anything about enlightenment and the organized religions have prevented people from attaining enlightenment, because enlightenment means freedom. Society does not want individuals to become free."
- Swami Dhyan Giten
PADMA ABOUT SATSANG WITH GITEN
"Satsang with Giten is heaven. Satsang with Giten is a taste of the eternal, a taste of the timeless. It can feel like we sat for 3 hours, while we only sat for 40 minutes.
I was so afraid that I would lose the silence that I had found during satsang in India, but I found the silence again in satsang with Giten. Samadhi is like dying. The fear that I experienced in the beginning in satsang when I went into samadhi, when I disappeared into the silence, has now disappeared totally.
Satsang with Giten is like coming home. I went into samadhi three times during a satsang weekend with Giten - and I also got a map and an understanding for how to go into samadhi again.
Before I started to attend satsang, I did not think that enlightenment was possible, but now I feel that it is possible. Satsang with Giten confirms what I have really always known. I never thought that samadhi was possible, but in satsang with Giten, samadhi is knocking on the door."
- Padma
Enlightenment is a discovery of your being. Enlightenment is a discovery of your unique and individual path in relation to existence.
This satsang series with Giten is an invitation to to allow us a direct insight and experience of what a life of enlightenment can be.
In this satsang series Giten introduces the mystery, the wonder, and the emptiness that is Zen.
Zen is the essence of religion. Zen has to be understood in deep love and understanding. Love bridges the world of mind and the world of no-mind, of silence, emptiness and meditation. Love is the way to know the mystery of life.
Religion means to return to the original source, where there is silence, contentment and bliss. The source is the goal. When one has come back to the original source, one has achieved all that life can give.
The message of Zen is about how to experience the essence of emptiness: that blissful state of no-mind where all old conditionings are gone and man is free just to be himself.
This satsang series is about Live Zen: The Art of Enlightenment can transform the life of anyone who has an open mind. It will burn away old enslaving concepts, and fears that have constricted people’s lives for millenia. Giten gives a fresh, new understanding of live zen, and shows how each person can find the way to light his own path.
Man can live in two ways: the natural way and the unnatural way. The natural person is the enlightened person. To be natural is to be enlightened. Enlightenment is a state of being natural.
People become enlightened only when they have discovered their original source; when they have become natural they are enlightened. Enlightenment is to be ordinary, to be nobody, to be natural.
Enlightenment is simply a process of discovering yourself. Enlightenment is nothing but the discovery of our original face - the essential reality you brought with you, and the essential reality you will have to take with you when you die. And this original face is luminous, because it is part of eternal life; it is part of the whole.
In this satsang weekend, Giten takes us through this experience of letting go of identification, which allows us to get a direct insight and experience of what a life of enlightenment can be.
In 1982, when Giten was 23 years old, he was directed by the Divine presence in a trance session with the American trance chancellor Lin David Martin: "You have listened to your intuition, to your true inner voice, more than most. You have been searching for the contact with the Spirit for a long time and now it is beginning to manifest on the outer plane. You have been gifted many times in previous embodiments and now everything will come rather easy for you. I want you to put your energy into the lives of others, because you can."
A spiritual teacher, who has counseled thousands of people, told Giten in 1984: “You will dissolve into the silence. All the earlier enlightened Masters and all the small Deva’s are just here to help you to get enlightened.
Topics in the course:
- What is enlightenment?
- The six steps to enlightenment
- Peeling the onion of Personality
- Waking up from the Dream
This satsang weekend is supported by silent satsang with Giten, which is a direct insight and realization of being. It is a direct realization to be a light to yourself.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
TIME: 7, 14, 21, 28 February. 4, 11, 18, 25 March. 1, 8 April. Ten Thursday Evenings, 19.00 PM - 22.00 PM.
Information & Registration: [email protected]
Registration: One week before the course.
Course language in Sweden: Swedish
Previous experience in meditation is recommend for participation
GITEN ON YOUTUBE: LISTEN TO GITEN'S LECTURE ON INTUITION - THE INNER SOURCE OF LOVE, TRUTH AND WISDOM WITH GITEN IN ENGLISH
The lecture is recorded live during satsang with Giten
“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word "in-tuition" means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice within, which is already in contact with the Existence. Intuition is the voice of God.
The more you come in contact with the inner silence, the inner emptiness, the more you have access to your intuition. Silence is the nourishment for intuition.
If something increases your love, joy and silence, it is the criterion that it is the right path for you. If something decreases your love, joy and silence, it is a sign that you are on the wrong path.
Do not compare yourself with others when it comes to take a decision about what you should do, follow the love, joy and silence of your heart and inner being. When you are in contact with your inner silence, you just know what you should do - you do not have to think about it, and you do not need not compare the pros and cons - you just know.
You can listen to the advice of others, but always listen to your intuition, to your inner teacher and guide in life, when you take the final decision. The intuition, the language of silence, will always lead your right.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten
Download or listen to the lecture on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMyQZGQND30
Read more about satsang with Giten and his books on The Giten Blog:
www.swamidhyangiten.wordpress.com
