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We were honored to welcome Murray Kennedy as our December 2025 Satsang guest. His conversation with Joseph Schmitz was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.
Here is some information about Murphy Kennedy:
Murray Kennedy is a householder, husband, father, and grandfather—and for more than four decades, he has also been devoted to offering Enlightenment Intensives. Since 1982, this work has been his vocation and service, and he remains actively and wholeheartedly engaged in it. Murray is more practical than philosophical, and a lifetime in this work has left him both humble and profoundly grateful.
The Enlightenment Intensives are self-inquiry retreats modeled on Zen sesshin and koan practice, designed to create the optimal conditions for awakening. Over the course of three to fourteen days, participants engage in long hours of focused contemplation. Working in dyads, one person contemplates a question such as “Who am I?” and communicates what arises, while the partner listens and receives without judgment or commentary. Every five minutes the roles reverse, and each 40-minute dyad concludes with partners rotating and beginning again.
Murray’s role is to teach the practice of inquiry and contemplation, and to inspire and support people in their own process—so they can discover the truth for themselves. The work is deep, powerful, and remarkably pure. It brings both gradual purification and sudden awakenings, which are both beautiful.
For more information about Murray and the Enlightenment Intensives he offers, please visit: www.murintensive.com
Murray, has shared some helpful documents with us:
Dyad Basics
Karma Clearing Dyads
Healing Dyads
Recovery Dyads
Dyad Questions
Invitation: Free Introduction to Dyads
Isa Salman offers an introduction to dyads every Sunday. These sessions are free and held online. All are welcome. The link is here: Dyads with Isa
