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Apr 2025
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A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series (Dialogue 9, ...

Roger Walsh and John Dupuy
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Ep. 178 (Part 2 of 2) | In the ninth dialogue of the A. H. Almaas Wisdom SeriesHameed gives a fascinating account of how four distinctly different wisdom teachings came to him in succession, directly from true nature, embodied in the form of diamonds. “In the beginning, I didn’t know…what the hell were these? Is it my imagination?” Hameed laughs. But then his colleagues and students experienced the diamondness too. Like angels of revelation, each diamond vehicle brings a different type of wisdom: the first diamond vehicle, Guidance, brings clarity and initiated the practice of inquiry; the second embodies the wisdom that pleasure is what we are, bringing an understanding of pleasure from a spiritual perspective; the third diamond vehicle holds the wisdom of how to conduct our lives from a place of truth, and the fourth the wisdom of true knowledge—knowing by being—the knowing that is needed for awakening.

Not only do we hear marvelous stories of how the diamond-shaped wisdom messengers appeared to Hameed, but he also imparts a wonderfully comprehensive yet succinct rendering of the teachings they brought, and the conversation flows from embodying wisdom to embodying pleasure, the inward turn, and why bliss must be combined with emptiness for enlightenment to occur. Also, how to live a life of truth with the inner compass provided by the third diamond teaching, the pitfalls of the ego’s tendency to accommodate others, how being is inseparable from knowing, and lots more. A very full, warm, rich conversation, filled also with humor, sparkle, and delight. Recorded January 30, 2025.

“The Diamond Dome brings in the wisdom of true knowledge—spiritual knowledge, knowing by being—the knowing that is needed for awakening.”

Topics & Time Stamps – Part 2

  • Emptiness has a bliss to it (00:49)
  • The death tantra and sexual tantra paths to enlightenment (01:06)
  • Emptiness/fullness, being/non-being, unity/particularity: two sides of reality (03:18)
  • We lose track of the particularity when we focus on unity only (05:22)
  • There are many different levels of particularity: ego, body, soul… Each diamond vehicle is a particularity (09:39)
  • The Citadel, the third diamond vehicle, is the essential conscience, the wisdom of how to conduct your life from the perspective of true nature (10:05)
  • Accommodating is part of the behavior of the ego, but in accommodating, most of the time you are selling yourself, compromising (13:20)
  • Living a life of truth brings in the unity and the particularity (15:37)
  • You transition when you become willing to sacrifice comforts, relationships, the supports of the ego, to align only with truth (17:56)
  • On this path, the vehicle first appears then manifests each of its aspects—different shaped diamonds within a diamond (21:31)
  • For Hameed, first Diamond Guidance appeared, then Markabah, then the Citadel, then the Diamond Dome (24:24)
  • The Diamond Dome brings in the wisdom of true knowledge—spiritual knowledge, knowing by being—the knowing that is needed for awakening (25:41)
  • This vehicle brings the knowledge of each aspect; basic concepts are clearly delineated (29:27)
  • True nature informs the individual mind with basic concepts (34:38)
  • Each vehicle highlights certain parts of the ego as obstacles to realization; the dome highlights self-identity, the “I-ness” of the ego (36:26)
  • To embody the Diamond Dome the ego needs to experience cessation (37:43)

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