Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart
From Love Unveiled:
An important challenge on any spiritual path is working through and penetrating the various obstacles to awakening. Love Unveiled therefore explores the barriers that tend to block our experience of awakening to—and discovering ourselves to be—love in each of its various forms. Experiential exercises throughout the book focus on each quality or dimension of love, in order to help you experience the presence of love and work through the obstacles and misunderstandings in the way of its realization.
A.H. Almaas (Hameed Ali) Diamond Approach co-founder leads a short, heart focused meditation then discusses three aspects of love from his latest book Love Unveiled.
The three aspects of love are personal love, connected love, and passionate love.
After the talk, Hameed takes question and comments from participants.
This event was recorded on June 13, 2020 and held on Zoom, YouTube Livestream and Facebook Live. Over 800 people joined the live event from United States, Australia, New Zealand and many other locations across the world.
Love Unveiled can be purchased online through Shambhala Publications or other book retailers.
Show Notes
0:00 - 0:43
0:43 - 3:28
3:28 - 7:25
7:25 - 13:43
13:43 - 23:00
23:00 - 30:56
20:56 - 38:00
38:00 - 42:57
42:47 - 53:48
53:48 – 1:04:52
Music meditation (Pedro Soler and Renaud Garcia-Fons, “Noche Gaditana”, Suite Andalouse.)
1:04:52 – 1:13:20
Question 1: When you were talking, I felt a heart connection and I was feeling delighted and smiling something strange happened with you put on the music. I didn’t like the music. What if you don’t like something?
1:13:20 – 1:15:56
Question 2: Is it possible to have love without hate? If one wants to see the world in a position of world, how does one get rid of the hate?
1:15:56 – 1:21:01
Question 3: I feel falling into extension of love. It feels like falling into a extension or I’ve dissolved into it. When listening to the music, I felt parts falling apart.
1:21:01 – 1:25:32
Question 4: Curious about where does this love come from? For me, I know what is the pink, cotton candy.
1:25:32 – 1:31:58
Question 5: I wanted to share an experiential aspect that I associated with some form of love. I feel a tug or a pull in my heart directed toward someone I am bonded and often times I find that with this tug comes a correlation – they are in distress or sometimes they are thinking of me, someone I am intimate with. I do believe in metaphysical properties to connection and a connection can be felt and the physical distance between persons is no limiting factor.
1:31:58 - 1:39:18
Question 6: You’ve given me another language to understand what I’ve been expressing. What I’ve been struggling with as I’m looking at my current environment, something is lacking. I’m struggling to not feel bad and not loving well enough because maybe this is just my ego and my emotional need for love. There is nothing wrong, but it feels like nothing.
1:39:18 - 1:42:53
Question 7: I felt I went back to a place feeling a white cloud sort of something in my memory and I was feeling pink, self love and when the music started I started feeling mama, mama.
1:42:53 - 1:48:02
Question 8: I just want to say thank you. I’m just in awe of the love that came through the music. It was just so moving. So thank you.
1:48:02 - 1:51:43
Question 9: I’ve studied with you for a long time, and I wanted you to know Don left the earth on June 1.
1:51:43 - END
Closing Comments with Amelia (Zoom Host) and A.H. Almaas
How Do You Experince Love?
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