The ego as God’s burglar alarm
Recording 04 of 48
Returning the ego to the body’s natural ground
The talk leads from facing “myself” to entering the still, black nothing called being, where consciousness is prior to awareness and love is fulfilled rather than experienced.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 59 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1993
PLACE RECORDED: PAN PACIFIC HOTEL, BROADBEACH, GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Meditation practice, State of being, Ego, Awareness and consciousness, Nature of self, Mystic cross, Absence of experience, Lovemaking, Transforming Sexuality, Practical advice for relationships, Honesty before love, Getting your life right, Beauty and the beast, Noble man, Penis and phallus, The Will, Change of life in woman, Menopause
SUMMARY
World travel and the purpose of the teaching yield to practice: breathe, look within, and report only what is seen—nothing. The 'self' stands as guardian at the threshold, a conglomerate of fear, guilt, jealousy, and past. Passing through requires purity and courage. The ego, rightly grounded in the the senses, protects without noise; wrongly grounded in the subconscious, it throws up pictures that disturb peace. The mystic cross shows existence as a narrowing triangle meeting an inverted, infinite expansion. Detachment allows the crossing.
Sex becomes love when experience is relinquished. There is no experience in truth: satisfaction ends; fulfilment does not. Practical counsels follow—break attachments (practice with movie endings), be ready to die now, give rather than demand in relationship, and practise being here and there at once. The 'penal servitude' of the penis is transcended as man metamorphoses into a walking phallus—a body of love. Woman's change of life opens to vast, earth-wide love. The work is willingness maturing into will.
03 - Through the mirror into me
