Simplicity of God and the burden of self
Recording 18 of 48
Looking down from union, not up from confusion
God is simple; the complication is emotion. Look down from union, not up through opinions. Love by giving up yourself, act when you can, and when you can’t, surrender without anxious caring.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1996
PLACE RECORDED: GREENMOUNT RESORT, COOLANGATTA, GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Simplicity, Giving your sweet nature, Surrendering disturbance, Raising children, God and existence, Death, God realisation, Darshan, Me inside the body, Death of the master, Emotional self, Handling negative psychic and emotional phenomena, Freedom from negativity, Judgment, Self observation, Hell, Belief and religion, Religious tradition, The futility of following, Karma the past repeating, Meditation practice, Be still and know God, East and West, Personal Will vs Divine Will, Awareness and consciousness
SUMMARY
Barry Long distinguishes union with God from the human condition. From the condition, people 'look up' and find only contention and beliefs; from union, one 'looks down' and sees simplicity: unhappiness comes from thinking, worrying, and emotion. Love is not sentiment but the giving up of oneself—anger, attitudes, positions. In conflict, state the fact and desist before emotion rises. Life is simple: take the action possible; if barred, accept God's will without dwelling. Regret and backward-looking belong to the complicated mind. Realisation is the progressive relinquishment of self over years until the burden lifts. Listening with the whole body, one can enter being—the Western fact behind 'darshan'—where words are incidental and the truth is silent presence.
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