{"id":41068,"date":"2019-06-21T23:25:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T05:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=41068"},"modified":"2019-06-20T07:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:02:37","slug":"what-is-love-do-the-enlightened-know-love-or-leave-it-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/what-is-love-do-the-enlightened-know-love-or-leave-it-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Love? Do the Enlightened Know Love or Leave it Behind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-41069 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/th-15.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"175\" \/>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/awakening-together-satsang-with-dr-jeffrey-martin-june16-2019\/\">Guest Satsang interview, Dr. Jeffrey Martin<\/a> mentioned that those who experience fundamental wellbeing at location 4 or above do not feel the emotion of love. This concerned some members of Awakening Together. Some members said all they want is love and they aren&#8217;t interested in enlightenment if love is absent from enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p>This begs the question, &#8220;What is love?&#8221; and &#8220;Do the enlightened know love or leave it behind?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This past Wednesday, Regina and Jacquelyn explored these questions in the Sanctuary. If these questions are interesting to you, we recommend listening to the following audios. Each audio is 1 hour in length.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/the-tao-enlightened-leadership-lesson-20-what-is-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Tao &amp; Enlightened Leadership ~ Lesson 20: What is Love?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/jacquelyn-eckert-as-it-is-undoing-the-ties-that-bind-6-19-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As It Is ~ Undoing the Ties That Bind<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in watching a demonstration of enlightened love in this unofficial Beatles video, The Fool on the Hill:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y3VeVwTa-bk\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Guest Satsang interview, Dr. Jeffrey Martin mentioned that those who experience fundamental wellbeing at location 4 or above do not feel the emotion of love. 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