The Method

Diamond Heart Presence has several practices in which you learn how to come home to yourself at any moment, so that you can be more present in your life and can therefore live your life more fully. The most important and central method is Diamond Heart Inquiry.

What is Diamond Heart Inquiry?

Being present to all your experiences

The Diamond Heart inquiry is a very powerful transformative method in which you learn to develop the capacity to be present and open to all the experiences you are going through and to your feelings about them. Being present to your experience does not mean that you have to like it. You just allow what is already there. You acknowledge the truth of your experience. You learn to stay present and open with all your moment-to-moment experiences without judgment.

Embracing your pain and suffering

This method teaches you how to stay present and open, not just to what feels good and wonderful, but a true openness that embraces your pain and suffering as well. Allowing our pain is vital because by defending ourselves from pain we lose connection with ourselves. When we allow the pain, feeling it as fully as possible and at the same time being curious about it, we bring awareness into it and begin to understand what the pain is about. We then can see that it is not the present situation that is hurting us, but that the pain is already within us. We then can see that something or someone has touched us in an old wound from the past and brought the pain to the surface. We then realize that nothing needs to be defended, that the hurt has already happened. There is no more reason for that defense. We can see that our self-defense has protected us, but now holds us back and causes us to suffer.

Understanding and compassion

This is not therapy. We are not trying to fix, change or get rid of anything. The only approach here is understanding. It is compassionate, loving understanding. It is attuned exactly to where you are at the moment. Only with compassionate understanding will you feel safe to let go of self-defense, to open your heart again, and come home to yourself. And ultimately, this openness is what will truly dissolve your suffering and what is holding you back, and set YOU free.

It is this combination of objective, clear and precise understanding and compassionate attunement to where you are at the moment that makes Diamond Heart Inquiry so powerful and transformative.

And the amazing thing moreover, is that this method requires no special place, time or attitude. Your experience from moment to moment is the entrance to wholeness and freedom. And your daily life is the laboratory of your journey of discovery. It is a journey of self-discovery in which you increasingly allow yourself to be open and sensitive, allowing old pain and limitations to surface and dissolve. This allows you to be more present in your life without protection. You are more and more yourself in your life and can therefore live life more fully. That is what we all love and want; to be ourselves, to be free and at ease with ourselves in the world. It is the end of emotional suffering, conflict and dissatisfaction. Coming home to yourself – being yourself – is what wholeness and true freedom is.