Insecurity is The Need To Know
Recording 09 of 20
Being logical, not rational: You can’t want to know what you are
Barry Long reveals insecurity as the need to know, describing it as an attachment that stems from rational thinking rather than logical being. He urges returning to the sensation of presence, where inner clarity and peace reside, beyond external doubts and desires.
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LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 1 MINUTE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1994
PLACE RECORDED: CABARITA, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Big bang, Rational and logical, Pure sensation and pure intelligence, Breaking psychic structures, Effort versus effortlessness, Vital cell, Resentment and jealousy
SUMMARY
By exploring the difference between rationality and logic, Barry explains how insecurity and jealousy are born from self-consideration and attachment to knowing. He calls for a return to the immediacy of being, resolving suffering through relinquishing the compulsion to know.
The talk guides listeners from intellectual restlessness to the effortless state of 'being nothing', where the need to know is dissolved. Barry discusses how love, free of selfishness and attachment, affirms the inner truth beyond thought. He demonstrates through dialogue how true authority and love arise when we relinquish the self's demands.
Through audience interaction, Barry uncovers how habitual self-doubt, jealousy, and guilt are functions of the rational self. He guides practitioners back to a state of innocence in the translucence of me, where suffering ceases and the love of life is real.
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