Diamond Heart Book Five Inexhaustible Mystery – A H Almaas

These differentiated feelings become a primary way we know ourselves and express ourselves as this entity. We are now approaching what the poem means by “annihilate mind in heart.” We need the belief in the existence of differentiated feelings to know and to express ourselves.

To annihilate mind in heart does not advocate having feelings instead of thoughts. Annihilating mind in heart means going beyond differentiated feelings, which are inseparable from the sense of entityhood, which is itself a feeling differentiated and patterned by the idea of an independently existing entity. To move to the dimension of the night, we need to go beyond the experience of ourselves as an entity, which is a mentally determined perception based on the physical.

To go into the night requires that we move beyond our normal conceptualizing mind. And without the concepts of this mind, there will be no differentiated feelings. So, to annihilate mind in heart is to go to pure feeling, which is beyond the feelings carved out by the conceptualizing mind. But what is feeling free from the conceptualizing mind? If we suspend our conceptualizing mind for a moment, we realize that the only thing we know for sure about our inner experience is that sensations arise.

If, for a moment, we do not use the mind and do not say that this sensation is anger or hurt or fear, if we just forget about these names for a while, we will have the 162 inexhaustible mystery chance to see what “annihilate mind in heart” means. To see what heart without mind is, we need to be willing to let go of our sense of being an entity.

When we do that and simply look at our feelings, what we actually experience is nothing but sensations. The conceptualizing mind singles out certain intense sensations and labels them as various emotions. This is the ordinary way our experience happens, and there is nothing wrong with it. This is how human beings have always operated, what we have always known.

However, if we want to meet the Guest, if we want to leave the realm of the day and have a glimpse of the true night, we need to go beyond this normal experience of things. We need to see the mental quality of what we call our feelings and emotions, and allow ourselves to suspend the conceptualizing mind that distinguishes and labels them.

When we are able to go beyond the conceptualizing mind and can experience our heart fully and directly, we go beyond all ordinary feelings. Pure feeling turns out to be something like nondifferentiated sensation, just an ocean of sensations. We can be aware of the differences within this ocean, but if the conceptualizing mind is not operative, we simply experience the waves as inseparable from the ocean.

Essence with The Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas The Inner Journey Home: Soul’s Realization of the Unity of Reality Luminous Night’s Journey: An Autobiographical Fragment Diamond Mind Series Volume 1. The Void: Inner Spaciousness and Ego Structure Volume 2. The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being: An Object Relations Approach Volume 3. The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization Diamond Heart Series Book One. Elements of the Real in Man Book Two. The Freedom to Be Book Three.

Being and the Meaning of Life Book Four. Indestructible Innocence Book Five. Inexhaustible Mystery Diamond Body Series Spacecruiser Inquiry: True Guidance for the Inner Journey Brilliancy: The Essence of Intelligence The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence For more information on A. H. Almaas and all of his publications, please go to: www.ahalmaas.com. DiamonD Heart Book Five Inexhaustible Mystery A. H. Almaas Shambhala Boston & London 2011 Shambhala Publications, Inc. Horticultural Hall 300 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 www.shambhala.com © 2011 by A-Hameed Ali All rights reserved.

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kThis book is printed on 30% postconsumer recycled paper. For more information please visit www.shambhala.com. Distributed in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Almaas, A. H. Inexhaustible mystery / A.H. Almaas.—1st ed. p. cm.—(Diamond heart; bk. 5) i e sbn 978-00000- 3 8 – 8 4 274 – 7 9 isbn 978-1-59030-906-3 (pbk.: alk.

paper) 1. Spiritual life—Ridhwan Foundation. 2. Ridhwan Foundation—Doctrines. I. Title. bp605.r53a46 2011 158.1—dc22 2010051838 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface vii Introduction to Book Five ix 1. Poor in Spirit 1 2. The Guest Arrives Only at Night 30 3. Sinking Your Boats 57 4. Suffering and Its Cessation 89 5. Absolute Absence 124 6. Beyond Consciousness 153 7. Here’s Looking at You 185 8.

Living a True Life 227 9. The Basic Fault and the Resurrection 257 10. Christ the Logos 289 11.

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