Love Unveiled with A.H. Almaas

Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart

From Love Unveiled:

In Love Unveiled, Almaas introduces the reader to three distinct flavors of loving consciousness: personal, merging , and passionate. They all share qualities that can only be defined as love, but each one feels recognizably different from the others in terms of the sensation and feel of it, the associations it evokes, and the effect on our experience.
 
Love Unveiled, is about love as an aspect of the presence of our true nature. Presence appears most fundamentally as consciousness conscious of itself, but it also has qualities of mind, heart, and will. The qualities of the heart include kindness, gratitude, fulfillment, and joy, but here we are focused on love: its phenomenolog y, its role in everyday life and relationships, and its place in spiritual practice and realization. For love is, after all, the expression of spirit that most profoundly connects our human life with our depth. 

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

Introduction with Amelia (Zoom Host)

0:43 - 3:28

Welcome and Meditation with A.H. Almaas

3:28 - 7:25

Opening comments and discussing Love Unveiled

7:25 - 13:43

Discussion of spiritual love and love needed for everyday living

13:43 - 23:00

Affects of the spiritual heart

23:00 - 30:56

Liking and appreciative love (pink love)

20:56 - 38:00

Connectedness, merging love (golden love)

38:00 - 42:57

Passionate love (pomegranate love)

42:47 - 53:48

Discussion of these three aspects of love

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?

Share your thoughts, comments and experiences below.

Love is the primary way the bliss of being expresses itself. Love is the perfume of union, of the unity of reality, when seen beyond external divisions and separateness. However, because we ordinarily know ourselves as separate beings, love is needed to bring us together and unify reality in our perception. In that process we begin to see how love is the force that permeates the natural state of the world. Love is what causes walls and boundaries to disappear, and love is what fills the space that is left. Love is what draws us toward another and allows us to see the other without veils.

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