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"What is the true nature of reality? And what is reality without the people or the individual consciousness that knows it?"

-Hameed Ali, Ridhwan founder

"It is a living, palpable presence, a process of bursting forth from within. This presence comes from inside, runs in our veins, and pushes things out for us to see."

-Karen Johnson, Ridhwan co-founder

"We come to the Diamond Approach to wake up to more of who we are. This necessarily means waking up to difficult places as well as beautiful places. The Diamond Approach uses those difficult places as doorways to deeper waking up and understanding."

-John Davis, Diamond Approach teacher

"We are here to inspire people to take the risk to go within, to face the sorrow, the demons, to trust the transformation. We don’t have to leave this earth, or live in a cave."

-Jessica Britt, Diamond Approach teacher

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The Teaching

The Diamond Approach offers an immense and precise body of knowledge about the nature of reality and the process of spiritual realization. Rather than positing an end goal or condition, it points to an open-ended, continuous process of discovery. Even nondual realization is recognized as a step toward greater mysteries and forms of freedom. This leads to deepening realization of the fullness of being human—a being who experientially embraces and expresses the totality of the cosmos in all its physical and spiritual dimensions. Our potential is to be free: to be anything, everything, or nothing at all, as we live the simplicity of ordinary life.

Spiritual reality is seen to have many qualities important for us as human beings. These essential aspects of our nature include love, compassion, will, peace, strength, joy, and clarity. Each aspect has a unique flavor and particular function for the human soul and the realization of its ground. This ground includes boundless love, universal consciousness, transparent awareness, profound emptiness, nonlocal truth—unities of many kinds.

With penetrating clarity the teaching articulates how these natural qualities have become obscured and how they can open and emerge into our lives. Recognizing and integrating our inner qualities is understood as an organic maturation toward fruition of our humanity and awakening of the transcendent—a process of both liberation and endless discovery and development.

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Feeling the Affect of Freedom is Connected with the Sense of Featurelessness

We can explore freedom in many other ways. It is a profound contemplation because freedom changes meaning as more degrees of freedom are recognized. We discover the freedom of the heart to appear in ways that we haven’t thought possible; the freedom of the mind to perceive, discern, know, and think in new ways; the freedom of acting, communicating, and relating as Total Being. Freedom also becomes connected with maturation. The more mature we are, the more we are able to handle further degrees of freedom.
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Beginning of the Endless Journey of Freedom

So each one of us is experiencing Total Being in one or another of its presentations all the time. And our practice is simply to find out what it is right now, to inquire into its nature; and, as we inquire into it, the inquiry itself, which feels like an invitation, is Total Being expressing its intelligence and revealing other possibilities as part of actualizing its potential. We experience the gravitational pull of Total Being manifesting further potentialities as our love of discovery.

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