Gold Coast Talk - 1997 June
Recording 25 of 48
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 49 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1997
PLACE RECORDED: GREENMOUNT RESORT, COOLANGATTA, GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Human condition, Truth and the fact, Living the truth being practical, Science, Niceness, Single woman, Interpreting symbols, God is not a concept, People v public, Attachment to experience, Woman and love, Karma, Maya, Accepting life as it is, Myth, Truth is in Myth, Sex as the driving force of the world, Religious tradition, Lesson of the Buddha, Ordinary man, Womans fear of sex, Emotion at workplace
SUMMARY
The human condition: seeking a cure, giving it up; getting the power to overcome the human condition; giving up useless chat ~ God is truth: What is truth? ~ Going into Me (5 mins) ~ Being in between action ~ Fight and argument; living the truth; the mind and the human condition ~ Question: What brought about this condition in the first place? ~ Question: Is there more than one truth?
Can science enlighten us? 'Us' can never be enlightened ~ Going into Me (4 mins) ~ Being and awareness ~ Niceness: are you too nice to be straight? ~ Single woman: she must accept her life as it is now; longing will push away what she wants ~ Walking from left to right: the symbol of human existence ~ Use of the word God and concepts of God; religions and poetry; seeing things straight; the truth detailed for these times
The public is stupid but the people are not ~ Repeating experience; attachment to the experience of love; why did I get my heart broken? ~ Woman: heavy-heartedness; the deep past in her; woman is nothing; gratitude for her life ~ Karma and the trick of Maya; accepting my life as it is ~ Going into Me (5 mins) ~ In the light of the degeneration in the world, isn't God in charge of everything? The answer is in myth; integrity of God
Truth is in myth, not in scientific theory ~ Man and the pursuit of sex ~ Man's responsibility for what he has done in the world and his failure to love woman ~ Studying Zen Buddhism; living Roman Catholicism ~ Buddha and Mara: facing sex ~ Mixing in the world: I love my ordinary man ~ Question: Woman's fear of sex ~ Tension in the body and symbols ~ Pressure on a man of love to participate in sexual jokes at work
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