Sea against land: truth erodes resistance
Recording 03 of 12
The ocean of consciousness wears down the cliff of self-importance
The talk opens on Tamborine Mountain with birds and lilies, then turns to a living metaphor: the sea as truth, the land as resistance. Truth constantly presses; suffering is standing against it. The answer is to be the matter you are and apply the truth of now, without study or intermediaries.
LENGTH: 30 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1988
PLACE RECORDED: TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Particularisation creates conflict, Study and attachment, Earth, Media and worldliness, Matter, Symbolism of nature, Time, Krishnamurti
SUMMARY
The earth's sounds are not background but the teaching: this body is the earth, and life communicates through it. Barry presents 'action and reaction' as the sea of truth eroding the landmass of resistance. When you oppose the sea, you suffer; when you allow erosion, what remains is the truth in matter. The truth is not bound by time; it is pressing now as family, work, and money—the ordinary pressures of life.
The central error is introducing time through ideas of rebirth, transformation, or study. You cannot be 'reborn' because you are already born. Study groups, interest in teachings, or channelling place a medium between you and life, substituting warmth and busyness for immediacy. There is no medium between you and God; the only medium is this body, here and now, informed by the cosmos. In presence, one discovers an equilibrium: God does everything or nothing, so action is done without particularising doership.
The talk closes by addressing why many are not interested in truth: there are no losers. Some are driven to know now; others are not to blame. Do not force the teaching; live it now.
Outline – Truth, the sea of life , Matter and resistance, Rebirth , You can't study the truth, Krishnamurti , The press and the truth, God is not particular
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