Ego as armour: protecting the wrong thing
Recording 10 of 48
From thin-skinned sensitivity to fearless innocence
The ego should guard the body; instead it guards pain. Intelligence can turn inward to “me”, where nothing arises and peace is known, and from that stillness life is lived rightly.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 48 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1994
PLACE RECORDED: INTERNATIONAL HOTEL, GOLD COAST
MAIN TOPICS
Ego, Intelligence in Nature, Sensitivity, Me inside the body, Meditation practice, Albedo, Menopause, The truth behind reincarnation, Vital cell, Cycle of life and death, Predispositions, Death, The psychic double, Seven heavens, Star, Big bang, Symbolism of nature, Cosmic symbols, Demonic energy, Orbit of the moon, Judgment, Resentment and jealousy
SUMMARY
Barry exposes the ego as a circular armouring around matter that, in humans, has learned to protect hurts, fears, and thin-skinned reactions. The remedy is not moral effort but intelligence turned inward—away from emotions and towards 'me', the holy innocence closer than breath. In the quiet centre there is nothing arising; from here one can meet life without the bushel of sensitivity.
He rejects reincarnation as personal escape. Nothing personal goes on; intelligence is looking out of every creature's eyes and never dies. At death the body's atoms disperse physically while the 'psychic cells' redistribute through the planet's consciousness spheroid. New bodies gather this mixed inheritance; babies arrive with predispositions that attract their life circumstances for the work of enlightenment.
09 - Returning to innocence as the years deepen
