Returning to innocence as the years deepen
Recording 09 of 48
Age as the way back to the beginning
Age is for becoming simple again—empty of self, free of moods, able to say “I love you,” and at rest in being nothing.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 50 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1994
PLACE RECORDED: INTERNATIONAL HOTEL, GOLD COAST
MAIN TOPICS
Ageing, Ordinary life as the holy life, Me inside the body, Teaching children, Love, Illness, Cancer, Facing death, Gnostics, Psychic phenomena, The radial, Enlightenment, The Will, Soul, Life forms are robotic, Will and willfullness
SUMMARY
The talk opens with age and purpose. Age has value only if it leads back to innocence: giving up moods, demands, and the need to be understood. The confusion of goals with purpose keeps life superficial; value appears when I surrender willfulness and face life as it is. Barry leads a practical entry into 'nothing,' the inner space that is relief from trying. From there he distinguishes body, self, and being: the body is a marvellous robot; the discarnate self thinks and agitates; being is the creative nothing that is love. With this, the emotional 'waves' are seen and gradually cancelled into equilibrium. Love is to be said and lived now; death teaches union is within, not between bodies.
08 - You are a cell in the body of humanity
