Life is Joy

AU$29.95

'Why don't you take the shortcut and spring straight up the top of the ladder? Life is, life is beautiful, life is joy. Now. No thoughts, no interpretations.'

Life is immediate and immediately fulfilling. Living - with its complications and problems, past and future - is what distracts us from life. The message is simple, but easily overlooked. Speaking with passion and humour at The Master Session 2000, Barry Long delivers the message simply and straightforwardly, and brings you back to the inescapable truth of life. From a talk on 8 November, 2000 at The Master Session at Cabarita Beach, NSW, Australia - 58 minutes

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Extract: The Great Law

There is a great law at work here which is beyond what we think. This law or integrity is that if a woman cannot love enough in consciousness, if she is not enough love, then the man will leave her. And if a man doesn’t have enough love, the woman will leave him.

The secret is to be the joy that you are as much as you can and not to be the gloom and the wondering and the unhappy one, the attached one.

The simple statement is: be the joy of life that is in you. If you are meant to be with a man, a right man, then that right man will come to you. If you are meant to be with a right woman, then that right woman will come to you. But if you want a woman or a man, then that wanting is not right, and you are going to attract to you someone who is not right because wanting is not right. The result of wanting is to bring to you what is not right, what is not fulfilling, a temporary man or woman. That’s the law.

So what do I do?

I surrender to the law, the divine law of: stop wanting! Stop wanting to change your life, accept your life as it is now. Every bit of it! Accept it as it is now, inside, every moment. And when you have accepted your life as it is now, no matter what it is, then by the law there is a possibility of change. (By not accepting your life as it is now you actually keep your life as it is now.) If over and over you accept your life as it is now and it’s not right, eventually you will leave, you will quit what it is not right for you. But you won’t have to make a decision. It will be done for you with a sudden movement or a sudden word or anything.

So stay with the good in your life. Acknowledge the good and stay away from acknowledging the bad, the unhappiness and the yesterdays. For what you acknowledge you get. And if you acknowledge the good in your life then you get the good. That is part of the law. But if you acknowledge the troublesome in your life then you get trouble, over and over.

It’s as simple as that.