A.H. Almaas, founder of the Diamond Approach, speaks with Michael Taft about love as central to spiritual nature. The conversation distinguishes emotional from spiritual love, treats the wounds of love as openings for awakening, and locates loving-kindness inside a wider field of nondual realization.
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Spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas speaks with host Michael Taft about the centrality of love to our spiritual nature, how to tell the difference between emotional love and spiritual love, how the wounds of love can become openings for awakening, various “flavors” of love, and the necessity of love to approach truth. A. Hameed Ali, whose pen name is A. H. Almaas, is founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization, a contemporary teaching that developed within the context of both ancient spiritual teachings and modern depth psychology theories. Almaas has authored eighteen books about spiritual realization, including the Diamond Heart series, The Pearl Beyond Price, The Void, and The Alchemy of Freedom. You can support the creation of future episodes of this podcast by contributing through Patreon. Show Notes 00:38 - Intro 03:31 - The book ‘Love Unveiled’ 04:24 - Love vs awareness in spirituality 07:11 - Difference between emotional love and spiritual love 10:59 - Relationship between consciousness and love 12:51 - Love is the maturation of realization 14:38 - Difference in the expressions of emotional vs spiritual/essential love 16:54 - Spiritual love as a medium and the nectars/flavors of love 19:07 - Yearning and desire in different traditions 25:37 - Teaching the opening of the heart 26:47 - Working with the barriers/obstacles in different qualities of love 31:03 - Pointing towards the way into the heart 32:20 - Nectars of love 34:08 - Phenomenology of love 36:09 - The three centers of human beings 37:49 - Difficulties with feeling love and loved 41:47 - Working with the wounds in the heart 44:20 - Hameed’s favorite flavor of love 45:18 - The three-volume series on love 48:23 - Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.