Being And The Meaning Of Life – A H Almaas

You anticipate and wait only when you are not complete, only if you need something, believe you need something, or feel you want something. When you don’t feel a need or desire for anything or for the absence of anything, then there is no waiting. There is only Being. To be complete is not the same as thinking or feeling that you’ve got everything, nor does it mean that you feel good or full. It doesn’t mean that you’re experiencing yourself as an essential state, like pleasure or will.

It doesn’t mean that you have what you’ve always wanted. To be complete means that you are not pulled by anything and you cannot be pushed by anything. It’s not as if there are two ways of being, and you have the better one if you’re complete. It has nothing to do with having anything.

If you feel complete because you have something, then obviously you have some needs that need filling in order for you to be complete. To feel complete means to be, which means knowing yourself as the one who cannot but be complete. It is not as if you were once incomplete, and then you became complete. If that were so, it would mean that your old needs and desires were fulfilled and, as a result, you became complete. It doesn’t work that way. To be complete means to realize that you have always been complete, that who you are is a completeness.

And being complete has nothing to do with better or worse, pleasure or pain, gain or loss. It has nothing to do with anything; it is not in reference to anything. So when you know yourself in this way, when you are complete, there is no waiting. Time is not experienced as waiting for something. If you’re not anticipating, wanting or fearing anything, then there is no waiting. There is just Being; you just are.

We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the part that is mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. This situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential can be actualized by the realization and development of the human essence. The human essence is the part of us that is innate and real, and which can participate in the real world.

The Diamond Heart series is a transcription of talks given by the author in both California and Colorado over several years. The purpose of the talks is to guide and orient individuals who are engaged in doing the difficult work of realization. A. H. ALMAAS is the pen name of Hameed Ali, the Kuwaiti-born originator of the Diamond Approach, who has been guiding individuals and groups in Colorado, California, and Europe since 1976.

He is the author of Spacecruiser Inquiry, The Pearl Beyond Price, Facets of Unity, and other books. 1kitap1.com/en Sign up to learn more about our books and receive special offers from Shambhala Publications. Or visit us online to sign up at shambhala.com/eshambhala. 1kitap1.com/en Shambhala Publications Horticultural Hall 300 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 www.shambhala.com © 1990 A-Hameed Ali First published in 1990 by Diamond Books Almaas Publications P.O.

Box 10173 Berkeley, CA 94709 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Opening Quote: from The World As I See It, Albert Einstein, Citadel Press, 1979. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Almaas, A. H. Being and the meaning of life / A. H. Almaas. p. cm.—(Diamond heart; bk.

3) Originally published: Berkeley, Calif.: Diamond Books, 1990. eISBN 978-0-8348-2385-3 ISBN 0-936713-05-4 (pbk.) 1. Self-realization 2. Self. 3. Individuality. I. Title. BJ1470 .A46 2000 158.1—dc21 00-040026 1kitap1.com/en It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

He looks upon individual experience as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole. —Albert Einstein from The World As I See It 1kitap1.com/en CONTENTS Preface Introduction to Book Three 1. The Flame of the Search 2. Are You Here? 3. Who Am I? 4. The Chasm 5. Essence and the Ego Ideal 6. Disidentification and Involvement 7. Non-Waiting 8. Supporting Self-Realization 9. The Dilemma of Boundaries 10. Knowledge and the Good 11. Being and Understanding 12. Reacting, Being, and Doing 13.

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