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Understanding Essence in Self-Realization

The Diamond Approach is a method of self-realization that involves experiencing essence, which is the true nature or existence of a person beyond conditioning. Essence manifests as aspects like love, strength and peace that can be directly experienced. Essence is the experience of "I am" and the direct experience of existence. The personality is a false identity that develops in childhood to replace the lost connection to essence. Living from essence means it dictates actions and shapes one's life and environment, bringing real harmony. Refining one's capacity to sense essence involves sensitizing the body's sensing center to perceive essential presence beyond physical sensation. Discovering the personal aspect of essence is finding one's true essential personality and feeling like a complete,

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Understanding Essence in Self-Realization

The Diamond Approach is a method of self-realization that involves experiencing essence, which is the true nature or existence of a person beyond conditioning. Essence manifests as aspects like love, strength and peace that can be directly experienced. Essence is the experience of "I am" and the direct experience of existence. The personality is a false identity that develops in childhood to replace the lost connection to essence. Living from essence means it dictates actions and shapes one's life and environment, bringing real harmony. Refining one's capacity to sense essence involves sensitizing the body's sensing center to perceive essential presence beyond physical sensation. Discovering the personal aspect of essence is finding one's true essential personality and feeling like a complete,

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Essence - The Diamond Approach to Self-

Realization
by A.H. Almaas

"As has been written a thousand times, the ultimate nature of essential reality cannot be
communicated in words. However, this reality manifests in pure essential forms of consciousness
and experience, in what we call the "aspects" of essence, such as love, strength, peace,
compassion, awareness - to name only a few. The experience of these aspects is completely
palpable and subject to keen and precise discrimination. It is this fact that allows the verbal
descriptions and analyses that this book undertakes." (preface)

"So in the experience of presence, what is present is essence, or true nature, which is independent
of conditioning. Presence and essence are the same. We have discussed presence to have a taste
of what essence is. As we see, essence is the part of us that is the experience of "I am." Essence
is the direct experience of existence. Of course, essence can be experienced as other things, such
as love, truth, peace, and the like. But the sense of existence is its most basic characteristic. It is
the clearest, most definitive aspect that sets it apart form other categories of experience. Essence
is, and that is what is most basic to its experience." (page 10)

" Essence is the real person, the real and true self. The personality is called false because it is
attempting to take the place of the essence. As we will see in the next chapter, the personality
and the ego identity develop to fill the void resulting form the loss of essence in childhood. So it
is really and impostor, trying to pretend it is the real thing." (page 44)

"To be a genuine human being, a complete human being, is to be essence. To be essence is then
not just and inner experience, but a total experience - a complete life. Life is then the life of
essence, both inner and outer, in the privacy of our hearts and in the shared experience with
others. Essence is then what dictates our actions, what determines our way of life, and what
shapes our environment. This is real harmony." (page 82)

"The capacity to sense oneself must become so refined that the individual can discriminate
between physical sensation and the sensation of essential substance. It is not enough that the
mind be quiet. It is also necessary for the body to be sensitive. The mind can be quiet while the
body is deadened. The body has to be awakened so that the center of sensing, the belly center,
can be activated. The belly center, or what Gurdjieff called the physical center, is the center of
sensing for all parts of the body. Its deepest function is the subtle sensing, the sensing of
essential presence, that the Sufis call the organ for touch." (page 130)

"The pearl beyond price, the incomparable pearl, the personal aspect of essence is central for
many important reasons. It is actually the true essential personality. It is the person. It is
experienced as oneself. When the individual finally perceives it, the contented expression often
is "But this is me!" The sense of oneself as a precious being. There is then a fullness, a
completeness, and a contentment. It is as if the individual feels full and complete, realized.
Nothing is lacking. No more search, no desire or wanting anything else. The person feels "Now I
have myself. I am a complete individual. I am full. I am fullness I am complete. I want nothing
else." (page 161)

Essence - The Diamond Approach to Self- Realization by A.H. Almaas "As has been written a thousand times, the ultimate natu
Nothing is lacking. No more search, no desire or wanting anything else. The person feels "Now I have myself. I am a complete

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