NEW YORK AREA DIAMOND APPROACH
THE INNER JOURNEY
"When will you begin that long journey into yourself?" - Rumi
Most of learn how to function in the world - how to have a job, make friends, care for ourselves. But we are distant from the richness and beauty of our inner nature. We do not know how to have contact with what is most real in us - the spiritual ground of our being, our essential nature.
At some point, we may start to long for something more real. We want to access something more substantial than we have found through our familiar way of experiencing our life.
We can start to have questions, like, “What am I really?”, “Why can't I feel at ease within myself?”, and “Is there a spiritual ground to my experience that I can really know?”
We wonder if we can relate to our experience with curiosity instead of judgment. We feel a need to turn inward. We start to want to take an inner search for truth, an inner journey.
We long to experience genuine presence, to learn to live a life that is authentic, fresh and true to who and what we are.
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THE DIAMOND APPROACH - A PATH TO INNER REALIZATION
The Diamond Approach is a teaching and path for inner realization. It is for people living in the modern world who are engaged with heartfelt questions about who and what they are.
In the Diamond Approach, we see our familiar, psychological development as a normal part of life. And, we recognize that it is possible to continue to mature and grow.
The central practice of the Diamond Approach is called Inquiry, a moment to moment exploration into what’s true in our immediate experience. This includes precise questioning, psychological discernment, breath work, body sensing practices and open ended exploration. Through the practice of inquiry, we penetrate our unconscious beliefs and reactivities, and discover the various ways our awareness is limited and restricted.
The Diamond Approach incorporates modern psychological knowledge with meditation and contemplative practices It utilizes collaborative inquiry practices in small groups, one on one work, and large group teachings.