What are the impurities of the personality?
What will be clarified from the personality?
The answer is simple: the past. – A.H. Almaas
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What are the impurities of the personality?
What will be clarified from the personality?
The answer is simple: the past. – A.H. Almaas
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You are intimate with yourself when you’re simply being where you are. – A.H. Almaas
…divine light is dark. It is black light, the source of all light, not colorless but pre-color. – A.H. Almaas
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Yesterday A.H. Almaas mentioned that essential presence is what transforms the consciousness.
One’s practice becomes how to stay in touch with essential presence and not about achieving any particular state of consciousnes.
Almaas said that there are very few people who can actually live from, move from, and act in essential presence though many think they do. It is more difficult than we imagine.
After one is able to maintain contact with essential presence, expressing it becomes the practice. The practice eventually leads to: essential presence is what acts, it’s what does, it is what is.
A result of this is that one’s life becomes a life of service – lived not from the perspective of the ego – getting what I want, enjoying what I want, but serving that deeper nature.
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True understanding has to do with transformation. If there is no transformation at the moment of understanding, then there is no real understanding . – A.H. Almaas
Last night, I heard A.H. Almaas give a talk on transformation. He began the talk by saying he had been wondering what was the most transformative experience in his life. His conclusion was – none – experiences do not transform the soul.
What transforms the soul is staying in touch with what underlies all experience – True Nature. Almaas pointed out that it is easy to get lost in the content of our lives – our experiences. Being in touch with one’s essence needs to be the first priority, the first love.