You are a cell in the body of humanity
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Enlightenment as a self-luminous function in the great body of humanity
Barry Long presents humanity as one great body in which each person is a cell becoming self-luminous through the surrender to intelligence and living in the senses without being driven by the self’s knot of pain.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 49 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1994
PLACE RECORDED: INTERNATIONAL HOTEL, GOLD COAST
MAIN TOPICS
Body of mankind, Vital cell, Pure sensation and pure intelligence, Awareness and consciousness, Trauma held in the belly, Music, Honesty, Grace, Visualisation, Catch 22, Black sun, Knowledge vs information, Cause and effect, Subject and object, The Will, Food, Death of a loved one, Being true to the situation, Pure intelligence, Karma, Destiny, Youth and experience
SUMMARY
The body of humanity is one reality. Each is a cell with a centre—felt as 'me'—that must become self-luminous. Enlightened cells radiate to others; nothing is personal. The intelligence looking through the eyes and ears is the divine; God is nothing. True practice is to look without searching, eliminating object and subject, and to abide consciously in the inner black where nothing moves. This is consciousness; awareness is the sensory world that continues alongside it. The obstacle is the knot—the contraction of 'myself' in the stomach or chest—which drives emotion, argument, and restless experience. The law is stark: dissolve the knot by intelligence and giving up the past, or be run by it into more pain. Counsel extends to youth: practise grace in walking, speaking, and eating; avoid posturing and smoking; do not fall in love—be in love without attachment. Love never hurts; sex crucifies through attachment. Finally, the good with no opposite is directly known as stillness and power. Responsibility is to renew the look, without thought or trance, and give only what has been won in honesty.
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