The Fire of Truth, Where Love and Light Become One
Truth
A.H. Almaas’s booklet “Heart Dweller” explores the convergence of the mystical paths of devotion and awareness. Though different in flavor, both lead to the same ineffable truth of love and light.
Devotion melts the ego-self into divine love until only the Beloved remains. Awareness cuts through the ego’s illusion of a separate self. Ultimately, love and awareness reveal themselves as indivisible qualities of absolute reality.
Buddhism’s highest truth combines emptiness and bliss, intuitive and intrinsic awareness. Emptiness dissolves concepts to allow experiencing things nakedly. Yet this emptiness births the luminosity of Buddha nature. Awareness leads to directly realizing the light of our true nature.
Almaas recounts being consumed in the fire of truth, where love and light become one. Reflection shows this transcendent unity is also immanent in the manifest world. God or ultimate reality is both beyond yet within creation.
The genius of Rumi becomes Almaas’s guide into seeing God in everything. Rumi’s poetry uses imagery that seems woven from Almaas’s experience to trick him beyond limiting self-concepts. This reveals the brilliant love-light of essence threading all appearances.
Rumi opens new levels where polarities merge in truth. The absolute and relative, lofty and lowly, are all equal manifestations of divine reality. Almaas sees even doubts as part of the glory.
Almaas admires Rumi’s majestic wisdom in unveiling the world as a tapestry woven by divine brilliance. His teaching embodies what it means for truth to be in the world but not of it. Rumi brings the transcendent absolute into the immanent relative.
This excerpt beautifully captures the synthesis of devotion and awareness in realizing the supreme truth. Through Rumi, Almaas learns firsthand the playful genius of awakened consciousness.
