True to the situation, not to emotion

Barry asks for real life examples of troubling issues: a woman's physical pain is linked to an unacknowledged bereavement; the release of tears is recognised as intelligence freeing trapped energy. From there, the teaching turns to death: 'what you acknowledge you get'—acknowledge death and you get death; acknowledge life and you get life. Love is the only communication with the so-called dead, and grief yields to a quiet devotion that nourishes the living body. Another exchange exposes family guilt around mental illness: either you love enough to serve without resentment, or you arrange proper care. No one is to ruin a life from guilt. Responsibility is framed in the strongest terms: you are God in that body to enjoy existence—without identification, without sentiment. The body is a 'space suit' for intelligence to look through; emotion is the stuck mask that must come off. Practical cases—an angry father, an artist's burnout, a partner's infidelity—are met with the same clarity: protect what's in your care without indulging anger; restore creativity by opening to love; refuse half-love and be in charge. Mind and past are unseated: experience is in the body; attachment is the only weight of 'past'. Holiness is brought home to the body as the only temple, and real art is to produce a pure, loving man or woman here.

This session is not included in the video series of the meeting, 5 Days July 1999, with its place being between video sessions 7 and 8.