Handing over to Me: The Enjoyment of Being
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Sickness, Surrender, and the Constant Beneath All Change
Barry Long recounts his recent illness as a teaching on the deeper reality of being, which remains constant beneath all worldly circumstances. He encourages participants to surrender self-concern and enter the nourishing dimension of being, beyond pleasure and pain.
LENGTH: 1 HOURS AND 33 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1995
PLACE RECORDED: CABARITA, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
State of being, Illness, Life forms are robotic, Being as nothing, Vertical model, Romance and spirituality, Absence of experience
SUMMARY
This session invites a shift from seeking enjoyment in worldly experience toward the quiet fulfilment of simply being. Barry urges the letting go of self-identification and using the senses as a way into grateful, effortless presence.
He describes life's trials and joys as beads threaded on the unchanging string of being. He advises embracing this central being and cautions against attachment to the mind's anxieties, instead fostering a sense of romance and wonder at life.
The talk contrasts enjoyment of the senses and nature with the transient highs and lows of the emotions. Barry clarifies that true health and holiness are found in humility and surrender, not in fleeting experiences or the search for knowledge.
Barry positions being as the only real and indestructible aspect of life, encouraging gratitude, abandonment of grief, and an evolutionary view of spiritual progress. He aligns this wisdom with the teaching that God is being within, not a person or concept.
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