By A.H. Almaas — 2014
There is no end to realization, kinds and types of awakening, or enlightenment and completeness.
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CLEAR ALL
We can temporarily push our ego away or try to rearrange our personality to be happier, freer, or more realized. But ego comes back. And that’s where Diamond Approach inquiry comes in. We all have awareness and inquiry helps us harness awareness to dissolve ego instead of pushing it away.
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We live at a time when all spiritual traditions and contemporary inner work schools are available to the interested seeker. However, many of us rest in the comfort of believing all spirituality and spiritual teachings lead to the same place and aspire to the same awakening.
The primary import of the present contemplation is to point out the significance of both recognizing and experiencing the individual consciousness, whether we refer to it as soul, stream of consciousness, or subtle continuum of awareness.
I want to give a perspective that somehow delineates, not that this Work (the Diamond Approach) is available and useful, but to delineate its nature and how it is different from other kinds of Work.
What I would like to encourage . . . is to be open to what various teachings say, and, at the same time, question everything, even your own perceptions, until a more satisfactory method of verification than we have at present becomes available.
A view for appreciating the similarities and uniqueness of both spiritual work and psychotherapy, but mostly as relevant to the Diamond Approach. This paper is written for the benefit of teachers and students of the Diamond Approach.