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Wisdom is how we live our realization. We are wise when our actions and attitudes express the understanding that comes from our spiritual maturation and realizations. Wisdom is true knowledge and understanding expressed in life, in our actions and interactions. In how we relate to others, events and the world at large. - A. H. Almaas - January 1, 2021 2021 a Year of Spiritual Wisdom & Knowledge https://online.diamondapproach.org/2021-a-year-of-spiritua/... #wisdom #realization #soiritualmaturity #trueknowledge

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The nondual wisdom traditions that recognize forms as inseparable from emptiness will describe manifestation here as nonarising, because there is no separation between the absolute source, which is emptiness, and the forms that constitute appearance. Appearance and emptiness are completely coemergent, totally mixed. One formulation of the path then, as in Dzogchen and Mahamudra, is that at the beginning there is experience of the flow of thoughts. In the middle of the path th...ere is experience of alternation of the flow of thoughts and calm stillness, empty of thoughts. Real and natural realization is the end of the path, where the flow of thoughts and the calm emptiness are inseparable. As the Heart Sutra says: Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. So at the deepest level there is always a flow, it never stops. - A. H. Almaas, The Inner Journey Home, Notes See more

Seeing yourself as a sense organ for the universe means that you realize that your base or your ground is generating everything. Although you’re connected to the Source, you are aware of yourself as an individual within the manifestation. When you feel you are an individual connected to the Source, you can experience yourself as a sense organ for the universe. But if you recede and look as the Source rather than as the individual, then you realize that the sense organ is also being generated. The flow of being produces all experience, all perception, all action, all events, all thought, all feeling. Absolutely nothing is excluded. Everything comes out of the hat. Even the hat comes out of the hat. - A. H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book Five, ch. 11

The Kernel of the Kernel can be seen in various ways. As the Essence of the Essence, it is the underlying nature of all the qualities of Essence we experience. And if we see the Kernel as the manifest world, then the Kernel of the Kernel is the Quintessence. The Kernel is the manifest world in its clarity, in its unobstructedness, without the accumulation of learned and innate ignorance. Quintessence is the nature, the essence, of this manifest world of clarity. Quintessence ...is the utmost elegance of manifestation, a beauty that is wholly clear, and whose clarity is utmost because it is totally empty. The whole perception has an exquisite elegancethe emptiness is elegant, the awareness is elegant, the beingness is elegant. The absolute nature of all manifest phenomena is a seamless coincidence of freshness and intimacy, of a fresh winter day and the deep, dark night. - A. H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book Five, ch. 13 #essnece #quintessence #beauty #beingness #awareness #emptiness #intimacy

How do you experience now? How do you get a taste, a flavor, of now? This flavor, this texture of the now, is the immediacy of the experience of awareness, consciousness, presence. It is like trying to find out what fluid light is made of. It is made out of now, out of now-ness. It is an unchanging, condensed now, a full, indestructible now. It is a now that is at all times, for it is the now that is the present of all timespast, present, and future. And it doesn’t change from an instant in the past to an instant in the future. It is the same nowalways fresh. Time doesn’t have an impact on the now. - A. H. Almaas, The Unfolding Now, ch. 13

When there is more awareness in the body, the capacity to know feelings increases. Knowledge requires awareness more than anything else, but it also requires discrimination, strength, patience, courage, kindness, gentleness with oneself, perseverance, and humor. - A. H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book Three, ch. 10

Openness can go further and further till it becomes absolute. Once it is absolute, it has no position. The greater this openness, and the deeper it is, the more our inquiry becomes powerful, effective, vital, and dynamic, and the more it explodes the manifestations of the ego-self. But we do not want to explode them to get someplace; we want to explode them to find out what is in them. We want to open up the wrapping of the gift because we want to see what is inside. - A. H. Almaas, Spacecruiser Inquiry, ch. 2