A.H. Almaas on True Freedom & Expanded Consciousness | Diamond Approach at the 2025 Summit

And the state I understand to mean different categories of experience. One of them is presence. Presence is an inherently an expanded state of consciousness because not ordinary consciousness, it is the, the very medium of consciousness recognized for what it is. So it's not the capacity to be conscious, to be aware, but it is what makes that possible. So that is really and presence. So consciousness can be experienced without recognizing its beingness. Just like some, the Buddhas will look at it as like an empty awareness, be consciousness. You know, it doesn't have the feeling, if it is being, existence, presence. Mean it is that awareness.

Not just.

Our, but the beingness of the world that it is what is, what is truly is. And it what gives us the usual sense, gives us the concept of existence, gives us a sense that we exist. But most people don't know the feeling of actually existing. They just. No, they exist because they have a body. They're around, they move around, they think. But the actual effect of existing, that's a more an expanded state of consciousness. And that's what presence mean. So many people use the word presence to mean I'm presence. My awareness is present. I'm present to my situation. Present, but not just for me is the outer manifestation, presence. That is the effective presence. The presence is the actual medium, the felt medium of beingness, which is the beingness of the individual and the beingness of the whole universe, of everything.