BHNN Guest Podcast – Ep. 217 – Love & Emptiness with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Synthesizing the divine love found in Sufism with the primal emptiness found in Zen practice, Llewellyn reveals how each path has impacted his spiritual life.

This episode is a companion to BHNN Guest Podcast Episode 213, Angels & Devas with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check it out!

In this week’s episode, Llewellyn goes over:

  • Understanding the essence of Ch’an (Zen) as a harmonious fusion of Taoism and Buddhism

  • Interweaving the mystical threads of Sufism and Zen practice

  • How both divine love and pure awareness dissolve the thinking mind

  • Awakening to the inner light and Buddha nature within every being

  • Becoming veiled by the play of illusions that we call life

  • Llewellyn’s return to love after a childhood without it

  • The mystery of divine love as a selfless force that seeks nothing in return

  • Wisdom from Llewellyn’s Indian guru: “There is nothing but nothingness.”

  • The vast, primal emptiness found at love’s distant shore

  • Integrating pure consciousness into everyday life—not just on the meditation cushion

  • Moving on from the drama of awakening into the calm silence of emptiness
    • About Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee:

    Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. is a Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is the author of Sufism, the Transformation of the Heart, and the founder of The Golden Sufi Center. Check out his new podcast Working With Oneness.

    “Love gradually became part of my life. Like an invisible scent, a perfume from a hidden garden, it began to permeate me, and in one of the greatest mysteries that can happen to a human being, my heart woke up—that spiritual organ of divine perception that is the direct connection with the source of love, what the Sufis call the beloved.” – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

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