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  • Living Being in Practice

    A couple of notes from the Ridhwan 2009 Summer Retreat:

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    The View of Totality is outside dual and non-dual, it includes both.

    Mysterious Being is behind the evolution of the universe and life and consciousness and the soul.As it evolves our experience, it manifests as the enlightenment drive.

    Our responsibility, viewed from the perspective of the individual self is to practice, the Fulcrum is the agency of Being.

    As the living being practices through the individual, luminosity pervades the soul and reveals the depth of true nature to itself.

    Every time we practice, it is the living being practicing. The appropriation of practice is an important thing to pay attention to. It is not the practice of the self.

    It is not an individual self putting out the Diamond Approach. It is through the practice of the living being that the teaching arises.

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  • The Recycled Self

    Egoic Self is a Recycled Self

    Yesterday, in his afternoon talk at the Ridhwan School’s summer retreat, A.H. Almaas referred to the recycled self. This is our normal sense of self – a false identity based on self-images and history. This self is engaged in constant ego activity which includes mental, emotional and physical patterns of rehashing the past.

    All of this activity is a result in a belief that effort will get us where we want to be – and while that may be true when it comes to walking across the street, it is not true when it comes to satisfying urge or longing for peace, authenticity, happiness, love and other more fundamental human and spiritual quests.

    The recycled self stands in shard contrast to what Almaas refers to as “runaway realization” – where True Nature spontaneously moves from moment to moment revealing deeper dimensions and understanding with no effort, hope, longing or past.

    The Ridhwan School’s annual summer retreat’s focus this year is – The Fulcrum.

  • Obsidian Samadhi

    Obsidian Samadhi – Diamond Approach Summer Retreat

    fulcrumI’m at the annual summer retreat for the Ridhwan School (Diamond Approach). About 700 students are gathered at Asilomar near Monterey California.

    Hameed Ali, who writes under the pen name A.H. Almaas began the first session with a meditation he calls Obsidian Samadhi = clear awareness, calm alertness.

    The subject of the 10-day retreat is Fulcrum (dictionary -a:  the support about which a lever turns b : one that supplies capability for action). The inquiry will revolve around – Practice is Realization, Realization is Practice.

    On first blush, it seems to me that the fulcrum is the soul or the personal consciousness where practice is initiated and applied and realization arises. We shall see.

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