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.
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So we’re not talking about intimacy from the usual perspective of two people interacting and coming closer. True, absolute intimacy is how love is experienced when there are not two, when we are in this place where there is no distance and no separateness. When you know that nothingness is our nature and inner reality, we can’t say that there is one person loving the other. There’s just a sense of tenderness, sweetness, delicacy, and appreciativeness that isn’t directed one way or another—it just is.
This is something we learn every time we experience our true nature in its different manifestations and dimensions. We always come closer to this truth—that when we experience true nature, we feel a deep knowing of other people and the world because we know it all from the inside, at the depth of its nature. And now we’re reaching this mystery at the level of the absolute dimension of true nature, where there are no objects and no concepts—only nothingness.