A.H. Almaas and Henry Shukman: “The Many Faces of Aw...
What if awakening isn’t a single destination but an endless unfolding of reality’s many faces? This week on Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon facilitates a groundbreaking conversation between two of the most profound spiritual teachers of our time: A.H. Almaas (Hameed Ali), founder of the Diamond Approach, and Zen teacher Henry Shukman.
In this rare dialogue, these teachers—meeting for the first time—explore how different wisdom traditions point to distinct dimensions of awakened experience. Rather than claiming all paths lead to the same mountaintop, they celebrate the unique territory each tradition reveals: from the “blazing forth” of creative emptiness to experiences where consciousness itself dissolves, from the recognition that each point contains the entire universe to the discovery that everything is made of love.
Join Tami, Hameed, and Henry to discover:
- Why awakening is an endless process rather than a final arrival
- The profound difference between thinking and heart-knowing
- How to navigate the fear that arises at the threshold of ego dissolution
- The role of trust, compassion, and basic trust in profound transformation
- What happens when individual consciousness completely ceases
- Why nothingness and being are inseparable faces of reality
- How grief and catastrophic loss can become doorways to awakening
- The Zen teaching of uni-locality—experiencing that one point is everything
- Why love may be the most fundamental nature of reality itself
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
