Piercing conflict and ignorance with spiritual exploration. The great yogis of Tibet often spent years in caves and solitude to pierce the world of illusion and the mind. Historians believe the Buddha left his home at twenty-nine and achieved enlightenment at thirty-five after subjecting himself […]
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An Overview of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization by A. H. Almaas The Diamond Approach is a contemporary spiritual teaching that developed within the context of awareness of both ancient spiritual teachings and modern depth psychological theories; hence the perspective of this teaching recognizes the
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Revelation is the fulfillment of not-knowing We enter this world in a nondual state, but within a few years we start to inhabit a subject/object reality, a life of duality. The status quo of a “normal” life is divided into me and other. Knowing is reduced
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Download a Handout with the Quotations from this Lecture(The notes below are from A. H. Almaas’s overview of this lecture.) Eihei Dogen Zenji is the founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. It is one of the two major schools in Japan; the
The Enneagram of Personality is a detailed map that shows us how to work with our personality and relax the hold of historical patterns or “fixations,” which disconnect us from the spiritual ground of reality. Typically, people orient to an “ego ideal” – a vision of being
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https://youtu.be/m5DqqmvJb2g GARAB DORJE’S THREE ESSENTIAL POINTS Download a Handout with the Quotations from this Lecture (The notes below are from A. H. Almaas’s overview of this lecture.) This lecture is not me teaching Dzogchen. Even though I have studied it and practiced it some, and
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https://youtu.be/YgobVNir4tI Register Here for the Remaining Lectures in the Series Download a Handout with the Quotations from this Lecture This is not a teaching on Advaita Vedanta. It is an overview of how it is practiced in the West, and the ways it is practiced
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The Green Rain of Compassion Many, many, many seekers come to the spiritual path seeking freedom and relief from carrying their load of suffering for too many years. Their efforts in the world have neither brought them the peace and healing their heart, body, and
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Essential Aspects: Jewels of Existence The path of the Diamond Approach works to unfold our spiritual potential by giving us precise, nuanced language and methods for navigating our inner experiential landscape. Guided by this teaching, we can become more present to the difficulties and the
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How Psychoanalysis Contributes to Spiritual Awakening What does spirituality offer psychoanalysis? This is a question from the audience that A. H. Almaas addresses. The full talk and other responses to the audience follow. https://youtu.be/tBXuRERNkRU In February of 2008, Hameed Ali, MS, PhD (A. H. Almaas),
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