Bedazzled Mind, Boundless Heart: Living as the Love We Always Longed For

Ep. 233 | In the last episode of the Path of Love Series with A. H. Almaas, Hameed explores the themes he introduced in the later chapters of his new book, The Inner Beloved. Hameed clarifies the role of mind on the path of heart (the mind is bedazzled and awed; the heart open), and details what happens when we reach the beloved, like “falling in love with everything” and experiencing the absolute as a “coming home” (even though there’s no one there!). We learn that, on the path of love, no matter what we do or don’t do, a heart-driven force beyond the mind is pulling us onward. Once we arrive, we realize the beloved has always been there—which is why our heart has been longing for the beloved all along.

Hameed explains that on the path of love, nonduality becomes intimacy—reality itself is pure intimacy, he says—and in fact, the nonbeingness of the beloved is the ultimate truth of reality. In a state of mystical poverty, we discover that all we are and have ever been has been borrowed from the beloved. The culmination of this Path of Love Series ends very beautifully, the love and intimacy of the beloved pervading Hameed’s words and the images he conjures for us. “The world is simply the luminosity of the beloved,” Hameed says. In listening to him, we share in some of the wonderful sense of coming home he experienced, a little of the radiant luminosity, too, and his own ongoing excitement over the ever unfolding mystery of the divine. Recorded April 9, 2026.

“We can be in the lap of the beloved and still enjoy life—loving everything from that place.”

• Introducing the 4th dialogue in the Path of Love Series with A. H. Almaas, focusing on the role of mind and the culmination of the path (00:49)
• On the path of love you are heart-driven by forces that mind cannot fathom (01:39)
• Hameed’s experience of falling in love with everything and experiencing the absolute as if “coming home” (03:00)
• The mind is bedazzled by the Mystery and recognizes its limitation in relation to the heart (08:20)
• When you get there, you realize the beloved has always been there (11:46)
• Emptiness beyond normal emptiness: Hameed calls this “absence” (13:05)
• The great liberation: where there’s nothing more to dissolve (17:18)
• As we are pulled, the love deepens & intensifies; we drown in the passion (22:06)
• Mystical poverty: the soul recognizes all of its qualities are borrowed from the beloved (25:05)
• What is right relationship between the realized heart and a healthy mind? (25:51)
• Krishnamurti would talk about no mind—but he was always using mind (28:40)
• Cutting through illusion & Hameed’s transmission from Manjushri (30:29)
• True mind: knowing in the moment (38:43)
• Dissolving dichotomies into wholeness: the world is simply the luminosity of the beloved (43:31)
• The ultimate truth of reality: the nonbeingness of the beloved (50:21)
• When tantra is enhanced by real love, then you can dissolve into the vastness (53:30)
• Stabilizing the realization is the second stage, actualizing the realization and not going back to the “doer” is the third stage (58:51)
• The dissolution of self doesn’t necessarily last: humility is an important step towards making the realization more constant (01:00:46)
• Nonbeing is the essence of intimacy: being completely one with the inner beloved (01:03:43)
• On the path of love, nonduality becomes intimacy; reality itself is pure intimacy (01:06:22)

For fans of the A. H. Almaas Wisdom Series, the Wisdom Series, based on Hameed’s book The Inner Journey Home, will be continued in June 2026.

• A. H. Almaas, The Inner Beloved: The Heart’s Journey to Divine Unity
• Previous Deep Transformation Path of Love dialogues: Entering the Path of Heart, Emptying the Heart of All that Obscures the Inner Beloved & Dissolving into Bliss: The Ecstasy of Ego Death
• Kabir, Indian mystic and poet, Songs of Kabir
• Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
• Fakhr al-Din Iraqi, Persian Sufi poet, Divine Flashes
• St. John of the Cross, The Dark Night of the Soul
• Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer
• Manjushri, bodhisattva of discriminating wisdom, wielding the sword of discrimination
• Avalokiteśvara, principle bodhisattva in Buddhism, associated with Great Compassion
• Vajrapāṇi, principal bodhisattva in Mahayana & Vajrayana Buddhism, embodying the condensed power, energy, and strength of all the Buddhas
• Jigme Lingpa, a central figure in the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism
• Proclus, Neoplatonic philosopher who hierarchically structures all levels of reality, including the complex subdivisions of the intellect
• Huston Smith, “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder,” from Beyond the Post-Modern Mind

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Deep Transformation’s Path of Love Series with A. H. Almaas begins with an overview of Hameed Ali’s Love Trilogy — Love Unveiled, Nondual Love, and The Inner Beloved — to orient us on the spiritual path of love unique to Hameed Ali and the Diamond Approach, then delves into the profound and deeply touching topics Hameed addresses in his most recent book, The Inner Beloved, published in February 2026. Listeners may want to get a copy of this book, to study and follow along on this extraordinary path of awakening. Also, if you are interested in taking a course on The Inner Beloved in the fall of 2026, you can register your interest here: https://da.pages.ontraport.net/inner-beloved-interest.

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If you are interested in taking a course offered by Diamond Approach Online, Hameed’s team at the Ridhwan School have offered a special 20% discount for Deep Transformation listeners. You can access the Course Catalog here: https://online.diamondapproach.org/catalog/. And enter the code DTP20 to receive your discount when you sign up.

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Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas) was born in Kuwait in 1944. At the age of eighteen, he moved to the U.S. to study at the University of California in Berkeley. Hameed was working on his Ph.D. in physics when he reached a turning point in his life and destiny that led him to inquire into the psychological and spiritual aspects of human nature rather than the physical nature of the universe. He left the academic world to pursue an in-depth journey of inner discovery, applying his scientific precision and discipline to personal, experiential research. This included study with different teachers in different modalities, extensive reading, and continuous study of his own consciousness in an effort to understand the essential nature of human experience and reality in general.

Hameed’s process of exploration led to the creation of the Ridhwan School and, with his colleague Karen Johnson, resulted in the founding and unfoldment of the Diamond Approach. He is the author of 20 books, including Nondual Love: Awakening to the Loving Nature of Reality, Love Unveiled: Discovering the Essence of the Awakened Heart, Keys to the Enneagram: How to Unlock the Highest Potential of Every Personality Type, The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence, and more.

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Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos and Show Notes by Heidi Mitchell