Non secular instructor A. H. Almaas speaks with host Michael Taft concerning the centrality of affection to our religious nature, how one can inform the distinction between emotional love and religious love, how the injuries of affection can develop into openings for awakening, varied “flavors” of love, and the need of affection to strategy fact.
A. Hameed Ali, whose pen title is A. H. Almaas, is founding father of the Diamond Strategy to Self-Realization, a up to date instructing that developed inside the context of each historic religious teachings and trendy depth psychology theories. Almaas has authored eighteen books about religious realization, together with the Diamond Coronary heart sequence, The Pearl Past Worth, The Void, and The Alchemy of Freedom.
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Present Notes
00:38 – Intro
03:31 – The e book ‘Love Unveiled’
04:24 – Love vs consciousness in spirituality
07:11 – Distinction between emotional love and religious love
10:59 – Relationship between consciousness and love
12:51 – Love is the maturation of realization
14:38 – Distinction within the expressions of emotional vs religious/important love
16:54 – Non secular love as a medium and the nectars/flavors of affection
19:07 – Craving and need in several traditions
25:37 – Instructing the opening of the guts
26:47 – Working with the obstacles/obstacles in several qualities of affection
31:03 – Pointing in direction of the way in which into the guts
32:20 – Nectars of affection
34:08 – Phenomenology of affection
36:09 – The three facilities of human beings
37:49 – Difficulties with feeling love and cherished
41:47 – Working with the injuries within the coronary heart
44:20 – Hameed’s favourite taste of affection
45:18 – The three-volume sequence on love
48:23 – Outro