The vital Flame: How Emotion arises and Intellect burns it out
Recording 03 of 08
Burning emotion into vitality without struggle
The teaching directs attention from the thinking mind to the living body, especially the solar plexus, where true presence and the pure intellect appear.
LENGTH: 1 HOURS AND 31 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1984
PLACE RECORDED: LONDON, UK
MAIN TOPICS
Inner universe, Presence and stillness, Guardian of the threshold, Releasing tension, Meditation practice, Psychic flame, Solar plexus, Control circumstances as yourself, The pygmy, Induction and deduction, Entering the body
SUMMARY
The central insistence is that being here matters more than any mental working-out. The mind's outward travel—projecting itself into existence, into discussion, into tomorrow—never finds life. Presence arises when the mind is stilled and the pure intellect reflects reality without movement. This stillness is not trance but alert embodiment that can hear birds while feeling the solar plexus.
The work is practical and bodily: drop living tension down to the stomach's fire to be burned and converted to vitality. Learn to pull back from the eyes and ears, broaden vision, and let sound and sensation fall to the belly. Barriers appear as fear and resistance—the guardians of the thresholds—and they are crossed by valour, love, or pain. Emotion is shown as a cunning 'pygmy' that hides in joints and muscles; it is dissolved by conscious presence and by becoming the pain rather than resisting it.
To live this is to become God of one's own kingdom—circumstances align, ease returns, and life has no yesterdays. The path is induction: a state of being that initiates and transforms, even in sleep, without mental deduction.
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