Stillness is the Way: Containing the Force and becoming the Power
Recording 01 of 08
Enter where thought cannot go
Meditation begins where the mind ends; when attachments are dropped stillness of mind reveals love without an object.
LENGTH: 1 HOURS AND 18 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1984
PLACE RECORDED: LONDON, UK
MAIN TOPICS
Love without attachment, Containment, Meditation practice, Meditation, Sensation, Power and force, Stillness, Entering the body
SUMMARY
Barry opens the weekend as an exercise of stillness, he directs the inner attention through the body: drop shoulders, hands, neck; feel the solar plexus; be easy. Learn to dwell 'within and without' at once—hearing the bird while feeling the centre. Meditation is taught as containment and surrender, not thought. The mind is projective, wilful, and restless; it cannot meditate. Meditation is the diminution and eventual cessation of thought until only stillness remains. In that stillness, love appears—not as attachment to objects or bodies, but as unconditioned presence. Attachment is severed; true love is revealed.