Holy Ideas for Each Enneagram type - taken from Facets of Unity by A.H Almaas

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Disclaimer:
All the different holy idea descriptions are taken from A.H Almaas book: "Facets of Unity". These are not an easy read. Recommendation: Make sure you have a good fundamental understanding of the types before you read these descriptions, otherwise these descriptions could be rather difficult.

Index:
The book uses the 'object' relation triads to define it's order. These are, respectively, the Rejection triad (types 8, 5, 2), the frustration triad (1,7,4) and the attachment triad (9,6,3). Below is a clickable index that takes you to the different descriptions.

Rejection triad

• Point Eight - Holy Truth
• Point Five - Holy Omniscience & Holy Transparancy
• Point Two - Holy Will, Holy Freedom

Frustration triad

• Point One - Holy Perfection
• Point Seven - Holy Wisdom, Holy Work, Holy Plan
• Point Four - Holy Origin

Attachment triad

• Point Nine - Holy Love
• Point Six - Holy Strength, Holy Faith
• Point Three - Holy Harmony, Holy Law, Holy Hope

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Point Eight
HOLY TRUTH

"The awareness that the cosmos objectively exists now; that this existence is its own
definition, and continues whether an individual understands it or not; and that the
individual experiences the truth of Reality most completely when he views each
moment fresh, without preconceptions about what should be happening."

The Holy Idea for ennea-type Eight is Holy Truth. It refers to the unity of existence, andincludes and goes beyond Essence and the Absolute. To understand what the Holy Truth is,we need to first investigate what truth is.

Truth Comprehensive Unity

(Longchenpa, 1987, p. 32)

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[Because my creativity is beyond all affirmation and negation,]
I determine all events and meanings.
Because no objects exist which are not me,
You are beyond perspective or meditation.
Because there does not exist any protection other than me,
You are beyond charismatic activity to be sought.
Because there is no state other than me,
You are beyond stages to cultivate.
Because in me there are from the beginning, no obstacles,
You are beyond all obstacles; self-arising pristine awareness just is.
Because I am unborn reality itself,
You are beyond concepts of reality; subtle reality just is.
Because there is nowhere to go apart from me,
One is beyond paths to traverse.

[Because all buddhas, sentient beings, appearances,Existences, environments, inhabitants]

Arise from the quintessential state of pure total presence,
One is beyond duality.
Because self-arising pristine awareness is already established,
One is beyond justifying it; the transmission of this great teaching provides
direct entry into understanding.
Because all phenomena do not exist apart from me,
One is beyond duality. I fashion everything. "
(Longchenpa, 1987, p. 35)

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In some traditions there is a debate about what the ultimate reality is: Is it the Absolute, or is it the state of total completeness? The Sufi and Kabbalistic traditions take the view that the Absolute is the ultimate reality. The Indian traditions are divided, with the Vedantists taking the Absolute to be ultimate, while some of the yogic paths take the state of total completeness to be ultimate. The Buddhists disagree: The Theravaden tradition believes the Absolute is ultimate, while the Tibetan Buddhists are divided. The Nyingmapa sect believes that the state of total completeness is ultimate, while the Gelugpa believe the Absolute is ultimate._[1]Physical Reality and Nonduality

DualityOriginal Sin

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Self-Blame

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[1]When I mention other religious or spiritual traditions and their points of view, I am not saying that my understanding of them is authoritative. I am referring to their descriptions of various states and understandings in the light of my own experience, explicating their knowledge through my own understanding. Someone of a particular tradition might say that they mean something slightly different and that I am misinterpreting what they mean. In referring to a particular tradition, I am not sanctioning it, or even agreeing with its tenets. There are distinct differences between the Diamond Approach and other traditions, although there are also many similarities in perspective. I am simply using examples from other traditions in order to facilitate understanding of things that are difficult to explain in words.

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Point Five
HOLY OMNISCIENCE, HOLY TRANSPARENCY

The awareness that because every individual is intimately connected with the entire cosmos by the operation of objective laws within their own bodies, there is no separateness or alienation except as a mental hallucination. Because the cosmic laws govern every aspect of ourselves, there is no possibility of hiding from the Cosmos, or avoiding the results of natural processes. When we understand this, we are completely at peace with our past

Unity in MultiplicityEyes of the UniverseSeparate Existence

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Isolation and WithdrawalThe Extension Issue

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Point Two
HOLY WILL, HOLY FREEDOM

The awareness that Reality, moving with direction and according to fixed natural laws, flows with a certain force. The easiest way to deal with this force is to move with it. This is true freedom.

If reality is a unity of everything that exists, constituting one existential Beingness that is alive and self-existing (Holy Truth), and if we as human beings are inseparable parts and expressions of this Beingness (Holy Omniscience), the question arises: What does this mean in terms of how we live, practice, and work on ourselves? The third point of the triangle that we have been discussing addresses this question. The Holy Idea of ennea-type Two has two names: Holy Will and Holy Freedom. Each name represents the Holy Idea seen from a different vantage point. From the perspective of the universe, this Idea is Holy Will; from the perspective of the human being, it is Holy Freedom.


As we saw in our exploration of Holy Truth, truth has different levels and subtleties of understanding, and the more we unfold, the more our sense of the truth expands. We see that it encompasses more and more, or rather, our understanding encompasses more and more of the truth until finally, we see the totality that Holy Truth describes. Holy Truth is not the realization of a specific truth, as we have said; it is nothing but perceiving reality as it is. If you perceive reality as it is, which is to say, objectively, the perception, the awareness, and the understanding that arises are that everything is truth and that truth is the existence of the universe. From the perspective of Holy Truth, there is only the truth; there is nothing else. When you see that there is only the truth, the perception and experience is not your ordinary one. In this state, you experience unity, oneness, interconnectedness, and a state of harmonious unity of the whole cosmos in which everyone and everything at all levels is one homogenous whole. So when we say that the truth is everything, we are describing the perception from a deep state of consciousness in which everything is seen devoid of the projections of the personality, and is therefore a unity that is imperceptible to the soul informed by the ego.


If the Holy Truth is that the universe exists as a unified Beingness, as an existence that is intrinsically undivided and non-dual, what does it mean to live according to that truth? What are the implications of this understanding in terms of your actions? What is functioning, and what is doing about? These are really questions about change, and they require an understanding of Holy Will.


Cosmic ChangeCosmic ActionFreedom and Surrender

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"Let whatever you do or whatever appears

Just be in its natural state, without premeditation.

That is true freedom.

Also,

The way of living according to me, the creative intelligence,

Fulfills all aims by letting everything be without striving.

Because everything is included within this inner reality,

There is nothing to accept or reject.

With hope and fear eliminated, anxiety is transcended.

Whoever recognizes creativity at work

In the state of sameness where the three times are unborn,

Is completely beyond verbal understanding or not understanding.

This is the teaching of no acceptance or rejection."
(Longchenpa, 1987, p. 46)

Separate Will

Know the state of pure and total presence to be a vast expanse without center or border.

It is everywhere the same without acceptance or rejection.

[This is the Holy Truth.]

Blend the nature of mind and its habit patterns into nonduality.

[This is Holy Omniscience.]

Because entities, whether subjectively conceived or directly experienced,

[when you believe you are a separate entity or are experiencing someone or something else as separate]



[This is Holy Transparency.]

Do not accept or reject them.

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True WillCastration and WillfulnessSpiritual Practice

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Point One
HOLY PERFECTION

The awareness that Reality is a process, moving with direction and purpose. Within this movement each moment is connected by the process with the one goal, and thus is perfect.

The Rightness of What IsThe Fundamental Nature of ThingsComparative Judgment

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WrongnessSelf-ImprovementRelative Perfection

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We have discussed the experience of Holy Perfection, and we have explored within ourselves what arises in its absence: comparative judgment and resentful ego activity, and the resulting attempt to make oneself better or more perfect. Now we want to explore more deeply the remaining element: the specific difficulty, the feeling or conviction that there is something wrong with us. As we discussed earlier, this is how we experience the lack of holding and the lack of Holy Perfection. This deep belief that there is something wrong with us very often gets projected outside, so we see something wrong somewhere and try to change it for the better.


Working with the Fixation Core

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Point Seven
HOLY WISDOM, HOLY WORK, HOLY PLAN



The Holy Idea of Point Seven is Holy Wisdom, Holy Work, or Holy Plan. Holy Wisdom is, like other Holy Ideas, a certain way of experiencing oneself and reality as a whole. If you have basic trust and you are being present, you realize that there is an evolution, a transformation that happens, and that there is a specific design to this evolution and transformation.


The Unfolding DesignFreeing the Assemblage PointThe Unfolding Now

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Cosmic Laws

(Aurobindo, 1952, p. 4)

. (Castaneda, 1987, p. 149)

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Point Four HOLY ORIGIN

Inseparability from the SourceLevels of SourceFunctioning as Self-Arising