Exploring reality through the lens of five boundless dimensions
The Diamond Approach helps us explore the structure of reality, both inner and outer. The inner truth of reality is called ‘true nature,’ which is the ultimate and real nature of the universe and all beings. True nature is what matters most when it comes to spiritual transformation. It is the single most important element for the evolution of consciousness. True nature manifests five basic dimensions, all infinite, boundless, and co-emergent with each other.
The Five Dimensions: A Deep Dive into Exploring Reality
- The dimension of absolute emptiness is responsible for space arising in both inner and outer perception.
- The logos dimension is the dynamic dimension underlying all change, movement, and transformation, responsible for our activities and functionality.
- The dimension of pure nonconceptual awareness, the clear light responsible for our capacity for perception.
- The dimension of pure presence, where being and the knowing of being are the same thing, is responsible for our capacity for discriminating knowing.
- The dimension of pure universal love, where presence is sweet and appreciative, is responsible for creating felt qualities and affects.
True nature is also the basis of all spiritual qualities known to humanity, which make us human and make it possible to develop spiritually. Each ‘essential quality’ appears in a differentiated form necessary for the life of the soul and the development of human consciousness. These aspects include truth, clarity, spaciousness, intelligence, existence, will, strength, joy, peace, value, love, personhood, identity, and many more.
The human consciousness is an individualization of the logos that embodies both true nature and the dimensions of energy and matter. We refer to the individual consciousness as the soul. The soul is an organism of consciousness, where the creative dynamism of the logos appears in an individuated field as a growing and learning person. Consciousness perceives and is the matrix or field where all experience takes place.
From Ego to Enlightenment: Exploring Reality Through Inquiry
As an ego-self, the soul is unaware of its true nature. Its experience of itself is largely patterned by mental structures created in the past. By being aware of one’s ego states and inquiring into them in an open and open-ended manner, the soul can begin to see these states for what they are – limitations, structures, and patterns from the past that occlude the transcendental nature of reality right before us.
Open and open-ended inquiry is a central practice in the Diamond Approach. Inquiry is a particular application of a manifestation of true nature that functions as inner guidance. This guidance also leads the soul to direct experiential knowledge and understanding. The inquiry process becomes a path of freedom and inner realization, leading to a deeper and more comprehensive realization of true nature.
The open-ended methodology of the Diamond Approach allows us to explore reality as a whole – ego structures, essential structures, and the structures of the universe. This inquiry synthesizes modern psychological knowledge with meditation practices and attitudes, for the essential manifestation guiding this inquiry can simultaneously utilize the knowledge of time and timelessness.
So, after diving deep into the boundless dimensions of true nature and the intricate structures of the universe, let’s not forget the most crucial point: none of this matters if you’re going to scroll through social media and call it a day. After all, why seek profound truths when you can double-tap your way to enlightenment, right?