The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence | 
 enlarge | Author: A. H. Almaas
Publisher: Shambhala
Category: Book
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1590305590
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.75
EAN: 9781590305591
ASIN: 1590305590
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
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The keys to self-knowledge and deep contentment are right here before us in this very moment—if we can simply learn to live with open awareness. In The Unfolding Now, A. H. Almaas presents a marvelously effective practice for developing the transformative quality of presence. Through a particular method of self-observation and contemplative exploration that he calls inquiry, we learn to live in the relaxed condition of simply "being ourselves," without interference from feelings of inadequacy, drivenness toward goals, struggling to figure things out, and rejecting experiences we don't want. Almaas explores the many obstacles that keep us from being present—including defensiveness, ignorance, desire, aggression, and self-hatred—and shows us how to welcome with curiosity and compassion whatever we are experiencing.
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 Precise transformational information November 13, 2008
scott (orchard park, ny usa)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
You can only truly know it by being it. Which means, not just mind knowing. To us Diamond Approach students, the words written in this book are felt or sensed as truth. As Ken Wilber says on the back cover, "the Diamond Approach is probably the most balanced of the widely available spiritual psychologies/therapies."
Meditator October 17, 2008
Tessa Leon (Virginia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The writing is extremely clear and thought provoking in a meditative kind of way. It is helpful because it gives one a deep focus.
 Well, if you feel like, but not a top-priority book October 10, 2008
valentin (Paris, FRANCE)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This last opus of Almaas doesn't bring forth anything new with regard to his others books and I found it slightly repetitive and tedious. This said, Almaas stands as a great and well-inspiring teacher and so, there's always a precious material to be extracted from his books. Therefore you will not waste your time and money if you buy and read this one.
Extraordinary "how to" of practicing Presence July 25, 2008
Sharon Mosley (Kula, HI USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
We spend so much of our lives trying to get somewhere else. This book revealed to me how this habit of striving interferes in my inner experience of what is happening now. Learning to truly experience what is happening now does not mean being passive. It does not mean that I refuse to take action. It means that if I am sad, I experience that sadness, rather than rushing to cover it up with wishing for a different inner experience. I can take action to change circumstances without denying what my experience is with the current circumstance. Wanting my experience to be different is subtly different from wanting external change. I can work to improve communication and understanding in my family or community without denying my own inner experience at each moment whether it be frustration, anger, fear or joy. Almaas teaches with great clarity the "how to" of being present and tells us that being ourselves, being real, means being our True Nature.
The nuts and bolts of taking the Diamond Approach journey sincerely July 14, 2008
Maxwell T. Brandel (Boulder Co, USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Rarely do teachers reveal the essence of practice in incredibly clear and simple words which penetrate the veils in those of us who are still deeply longing to understand the truth of our nature more. For me this book has quenched a profound depth of that thirst. The quiet nature of this teaching in the diamond approach reveals itself incredibly slowly, but as it does, if one is sincere enough, the unmistakable feeling of finally being at home abides. As I see it this book is Hameed's attempt to reach out to a wider audience with the core of this diamond approach path. Beyond any means that I can understand Hameed, a man of incredible intelligence and mind boggling spiritual sophistication, speaks to us newer students with remarkable clarity simplicity and 'in-touchness'. Never have I heard a teacher communicate so clearly and gently about the task, from the beginning, of the soul learning to find itself again via; this practice of learning how to be real, letting go of judgments about 'real-ity', and then simply existing, calmly, as yourself unfolding now. It seems as though Hameed is saying all suffering is caused by us not simply being where we are, as we are. Various mind conjured resistances, unconscious and conscious, keep us from Reality, which is all the time displaying itself right under our noses. This is a step by step guide in learning to start, stabilize and deepen the being philosophy which the diamond approach offers. A manuscript of value I have trouble putting in to words. A clear, simple, spacious and detailed talk about this journey, told by a man, who if listened to, can not help but awaken ourselves.
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