https://vimeo.com/671672635 Explore a revolutionary view on embodiment in this talk, The Awakened Body: Opening to the Spiritual Wisdom of the Body with Diamond Approach co-founder, Karen Johnson. Listen as she describes how the physical and spiritual are inseparable and how to embody our being in […]
How we see ourselves reveals our relationship to our history. Given that 2022 is “The Year of the Body” for the Diamond Approach, it’s an opportunity to explore our relationship with how we see ourselves, the image we carry around with us of us. How
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Exploring the secrets and treasure of the body When we refer to the body, we include the mind, the emotions, the senses – all that the body makes possible. The Body’sGreatest SecretIs It RevealsAll Secrets We live in a rich and abundant world of perception
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Love in a dangerous time touches the now at the present moment This post is about love. The discovery of love, the experience of love, the living of love, being a servant of love. I am pulling most of the content from song lyrics and
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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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In this lecture, A. H. Almaas introduces the 13th-century Zen master Eihei Dogen Zenji, founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. Speaking not as a scholar but from lived spiritual understanding, Almaas highlights Dogen’s unique realizations—many of which challenge modern assumptions and expand
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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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In this illuminating talk, A. H. Almaas explores the ancient Tibetan teaching of Dzogchen—not as a teacher of the tradition, but as a fellow practitioner and spiritual researcher. Drawing on his own experiences and observations, he reflects on how Dzogchen has been introduced and practiced
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