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Enlightenment can be found every day, all day, in everything around you, and through meditative practices, you can harness the many moments of your day in a way that becomes a path to enlightenment. If this is something you are interested in pursuing, read through this page and see where you can get started.

Depending on your level of experience with topics such as mindfulness, nonduality, impermanence and meditative practices in general, you could approach this site very differently.  Look over each of these types of Learners, and see which one matches where you are.  Make sure you understand the purpose of this site, including how [[Everyday Enlightenment#The Framework|The Framework]] works, and then dive in and start browsing through some [[Exercises]] to see where you might be able to find some traction in the journey to enlightenment.

There are two types of Beginning Learners, those who have never really heard much about meditation and don't really know what it's about, and those who know something about mediative practices, but haven't really started incorporating those practices into their life.  If either of these match where you are, make sure you have a decent foundation in the following topics before diving into the exercises.  The internet is full of many amazing resources, and below are a few topics to get started, and once you feel that you understand the basics, take a look at the rest of this page.

* [[:Category:Impermanence|Impermanence]] - If everything changes and eventually goes away, why are we so attached?

Training

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Everyday Enlightenment is essentially a set of tools (exercises) for developing the [[:Category:Qualities|Qualities of Enlightenment]].  In order to conceptualize this development, a very simple framework is available to describe the why and how of these practices.  Understanding this framework is useful for exploring and understanding the Exercises, because they are organized and categorized within that framework.  However, if you are experienced enough with these types of meditative practices, you can likely dive right into [[:Category:Exercises|The Exercises]].  

In order to easily contextualize the concepts of Everyday Enlightenment, and to aide in categorizing the [[Exercises]], a conceptual framework has been made available.  This framework is fairly arbitrary, and although it uses a lot of terms, these are just made-up terms to demonstrate the why and how of progressing to enlightenment.

{{Everyday Enlightenment Framework Chart}}

In a nutshell, Enlightenment is about three themes: [[Experience The Now]], [[Embrace The Change]], and [[Unlearn The Self]].  Everything in the framework is derived from exercises that contribute to the themes.

{{Experience The Now Overview}}

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In support of The Themes of Enlightenment, there are four Qualities that we can directly work on.  There is not a one-to-one mapping between Qualities and the Themes, but as you can see in the framework chart, there is a strong correlation, as explained more below.

{{Template:Focus Overview}}

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When it all comes down to it, [[:Category:Exercises|The Exercises]] are how we progress.  They are organized in a number of ways which are designed to help you choose what interests you most and is helping you personally.