Course Syllabus

In the course overview, you will:

Learn about the unique aspects of the Diamond Approach as a spiritual path
Understand how to engage your life to support spiritual growth and increased awareness
Discover how to approach mundane experience in a way that opens them up to new levels
Explore what it means to all the dimensions of our human potential

In this module, you will:

Become acquainted with the various aspects of the Diamond Approach as a spiritual path
Discover how to find something true in yourself wherever you are in yourself
Be guided through an introduction to a practice to explore and honor your personal spiritual path

In this module, you will:

Be guided to understand why it’s important and valuable to be in touch with your experience
Explore how every experience can be a doorway to True Nature
Recognize the barriers to being in contact with your experience

In this module, you will:

Explore the idea of presence as a palpable substance of reality and quality that is found in the here and now
Recognize the different ways to notice presence
Perceive the dynamic nature of presence that emerges when one allows what is happening without judgment

In this module, you will:

Explore the infinite richness of your inner life
Understand the various qualities of being, such as love, joy, clarity, confidence, peacefulness, and determination
Sense the doorways to becoming more in touch with the differentiated qualities of being

In this module, you will:

Learn how we can discover a presence that has no bounds, moving into nondual expansion
Understand the inclusive, unified, and vast expanse that includes what we are, what we see, what we don’t see, and beyond
Begin to discriminate into a subtler dimension of awareness that can yield to a bottomless nothingness that is the source of everything
Explore how reality is full of open places and spaces, and how every part of experience can be a wormhole that can lead beyond time and space so that you may come to know the unbounded freedom of reality as who and what you are

In this module, you will:

Explore what it really means for Being/spirit to live a human life
Inquire into how realization can be integrated into everyday life
Discover how cultivating greater awareness of the patterns we have developed throughout life can lead to different aspects of life undergoing transformation
Engage in various ways to support the integration of spiritual experience into daily life

In this module you will find information about the six live Question-and-Answer (Q&A) sessions with the course teachers:

Module 1: Live Q&A Session with Rob Merkx
Sunday, February 18, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PST

Module 2: Live Q&A Session with Hameed Ali
Sunday, February 25, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PST

Module 3: Live Q&A Session with Jeanne Rosenblum
Sunday, March 4, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PST

Module 4: Live Q&A Session with Zarina Maiwandi
Sunday, March 11, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PST

Module 5: Live Q&A Session with Zarina Maiwandi
Sunday, March 18, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PST

Module 6: Live Q&A Session with Hameed Ali
Sunday, March 25, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PST

In this module you will complete the course and explore next steps.