THE LIVING TRUTH
An extract from the
book 'The
Way In' by Barry Long.
You come to me to enlighten the brain
There is only one truth. It is being where you
are; and where you are, is where your body is.
This is too simple for the brain to comprehend
in its now chronically complicated condition.
The brain has become so divided in itself and
burdened with problems that the truth the living truth,
or living the truth no longer has any real meaning for
it. When the brain does attempt to find the truth it gets
stuck in its own contrived religious or scientific dogmas
and becomes even more divided, confused and confusing.
No matter how preoccupied you are at any time with thinking,
wishing, dreaming or worrying, you will always wake up or
return to consciousness in the living reality of your body.
In fact, it can be said that in all the psychological activity
you’ve ever engaged in, you didn’t go anywhere
or do anything. You only thought you did. It all happens in
the brain, not in reality.
(Again you’ll notice the brain’s inability to
grasp what I’ve just said; and its urge to argue or
dismiss the statement.)
The only way to get around the ignorance of the brain is
for you to live the truth. Living it means doing it, not thinking
about it.
You have to make the brain simple again, return it to its
natural simplicity. You have to strip it of its acquired and
treasured ignorance. You have to restore it to the innocence
of being one with your body here and now. In this state of
innocence, of rediscovered union, all is made wondrously simple,
like yourself, your life and the whole apparent, complicated
world of problems around you.
You come to me, the living master, to learn how to do this,
to learn how to ‘be’ again. You come to me to
practise being being simple, being simply where you
are, where your body is. I cannot do it for you. I simply
show you how.
You come to discover that there is only one ‘me’.
And it is the same intimate presence of being that each one
refers to as ‘me’ not my self, not my unhappiness,
not the world in me, but the living reality of every body.
* * *
Your body is the physical cross you’ve drawn for yourself
in the square of space and time.
The body marks your unique and unalterable place in existence.
This is the unarguable reality which the brain can’t
realise, can’t make real. But the consciousness behind
the brain can.
The brain is always striving to be somewhere or somebody
else wanting to change, wanting to improve, wanting
to want. It gets bored and restless very quickly with being
where the body is. But the consciousness behind the brain
its intelligence is steady, unwavering and in
constant delightful union with the body.
In fact it is the consciousness behind the brain now that
is illuminating your physical body with the sense of well-being.
This illumination is common to all the earth’s creatures.
But only man and woman choose to lose touch with it. Of all
the species they alone forget and leave this glowing, ever-present
intelligence.
It is consciousness that knows, loves and enjoys life in
the physical body, even while the brain agonises in thought-full
depressions or considers suicide.
* * *
You come to be with me to enter your body, to bring the steady
state of consciousness forward.
In other words, you come to enlighten your brain.
Uninterrupted enlightenment of the brain was once the natural
state of man and woman. The brain was a perfect physical instrument.
It served the consciousness of man and woman and the will
of the earth. Nothing suffered from its activities. Today
the instrument has taken over. The servant has usurped the
master’s role. And the earth and every creature on it
are victims of the brain’s mad and irresponsible wilfulness.
* * *
Due to the ignorance of our times, or the sophisticated brain,
uninterrupted enlightenment is now one of the earth’s
great rarities. It is almost an extinct phenomenon, comparable
physically to the planet’s most endangered (by the brain)
species.
And so it is said, the earth has few living masters.
Barry Long
Extract from 'The
Way In'
© The Barry Long Trust
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