A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Pain
Past
Pattern
Peace
Pearl
Perception
Perfections
Person
Personal
Personal Essence
Personal Mind
Personality
Personality Sectors
Personalization
Perspective
Physical Matter
Platonic Form
Point
Positions
Potential
Practicing Period
Prejudice
Presence
Primal Self
Primary Self-Realization
Process of Understanding
Projection
Psyche
Psychic Impressions
Psychic Metabolism
Psychic Structure
Psychodynamic Issues
Psych. Constellations
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Purpose

Process of Understanding

For the process of understanding to happen, three elements need to be there at the same time. The element of disidentification is one of them, involvement is another. The third element is the quality of allowing. These elements can be there when there is harmony among the three centers -- the belly center, the chest center, and the head center. When there is this harmony, it is possible to experience fully, to allow, and to disidentify. (Diamond Heart Book 3, pg 73)

 

 

Understanding and Grace

All of his means that we don't actually do anything in the process of understanding. What needs to happen is just an awareness of the fact that you're resisting an understanding of the process of resistance. When you understand it, your interest in resistance stops. All you can do is allow that to happen; the rest is not up to you. The rest is up to Essence. That's why it is sometimes called grace. Grace can descend and dissolve you. It can make you part of it. But you cannot let go, you cannot surrender, you cannot accept. You can only see that you are rejecting, that you're not surrendering, that you're not letting go. Then you are seeing the activity of the ego. (Diamond Heart Book 3, pg 183)

 

 

Understanding and meditation

Understanding is actually a kind of meditation; it is not a seeking, not a figuring out, not an attempt to find information outside oneself. It is spontaneous, and effortless insight. To engage in the process of understanding does not involve doing anything. If there is anything to be done, it is a matter of attention – just being sure you are present. When you are present in your being, the insights will arise naturally and understanding will arise naturally. (Diamond Heart Book 4, pg 28)