Dissolving into Bliss: The Ecstasy of Ego Death

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The episode explores the unique aspects of the Diamond Approach's path of love, focusing on emotional pain and the concept of ego death as a means to connect with divine love.

Ep. 230 (Part 1 of 2) | The third dialogue in the Path of Love Series with A. H. Almaas opens with co-host Roger Walsh commenting that in reading Hameed’s most recent book, The Inner Beloved , he is struck by how different the Diamond Approach’s path of love is from those in other traditions. Hameed explains that, indeed, his path is different in that it addresses the sequence of events on the path of love systematically, using contemporary psychological language to describe the difficulties and barriers that arise, and further, that he includes not only obstacles that come up in the mind (concepts and beliefs), but emotional pain and woundings, abandonments and betrayals, which is something other traditions don’t often talk about. Why are our hearts not open? Because opening to such painful emotions is scary; our fear blocks us from opening to the vastness of divine love. The secret to moving forward on the path of love, Hameed says, is to love more intensely, more deeply. Love itself is the fuel that gets us through the obstacles to union with the inner beloved. Hameed speaks of the “death wish” that happens along the path, referring to our desire to dissolve completely into…

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Hosts: Roger Walsh, John Dupuy

Guest: A. H. Almaas

Topics covered

• ego death
• path of love
• emotional pain
• divine love
• psychological language
• self annihilation

Keywords

• ego death
• path of love
• emotional wounds
• divine love
• psychology
• self annihilation
• Buddha
• Freud

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Books & works: The Inner Beloved

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