Place and position in the surge of the sea
Recording 03 of 12
From the great unconscious to the global stage
From a high apartment over the Pacific, the teaching moves from garden to ocean, from local to global, and from position to place. The ocean sounds the unconscious; safety is found in place, not in positions that must be defended.
LENGTH: 29 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1990
PLACE RECORDED: TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Dealing with physical pain, Spirit, Place and position, The flesh, Taking positions, Symbolism of nature, The unconscious
SUMMARY
The scene opens with the surf's thundering backdrop and a vision of the ocean as the unconscious. 'Everything has its place,' while positions are unstable, competitive, and painful to keep. The call is to be in one's place—with one's love—as the goodness within. Spirit is not an external visitation but the felt 'me' inside the body; all love, hurt, anger, and glory are felt there. The talk warns against speculating about physical pain and confusing it with emotional and mental disturbance born of memory and mood. A myth explains how the rose, symbol of woman, grew thorns when man stopped loving; yet man must now pass through the thorns to reach the beauty of woman. Vignettes of a jumper ant and a kookaburra reveal that all are farmers living off something—so let it be love, not pain. The reality of flesh—the inner sensational reality of the body—makes two become 'one flesh,' and in true love faces glow with transfiguration. Nothing loved ever dies; the dead endure as love within.
Outline – Living by the sea - the unconscious, Place and position, There is no spirit outside of me, Physical pain, How the rose got thorns, What are you farming and living off? The unexpected, Endeavouring to connect with the flesh, Transfiguration, Where do the dead go?
02 - The sex guru is dead; the teacher of love begins
