Open the bamboo cage: freeing the prisoners within
Recording 15 of 48
Restoring the free psychic flow and the end of resentments
The talk exposes past resentments as “prisoners” that block a living psychic flow, contrasts mental entertainment with vital being, and teaches a return to me—the vertical place of nothing—through honesty, stillness, and giving up positions.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 38 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1995
PLACE RECORDED: BOND UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Free psychic prisoners, Internet, Pure psyche, The heart, Therapies, Resolving trauma without going into the past, Mystic cross, Meditation practice, Wanting and acting, Man and woman as different species, Man and woman in love, Homosexuality, Vital life, Insights v realisation, Teaching children, Humour and release, Psychological death, Guardian of the threshold, Grace
SUMMARY
Beginning with the question 'Have you taken any new prisoners?', the speaker names resentments, hurts, and stinking memories as inmates locked in a psychic cage in the chest and stomach. While people come and go, their emotional representatives remain unless released. Thinking—our love of entertainment—keeps those prisoners fed. The internet is used as an emblem of mental congestion: a halo of useless information that seduces intelligence away from the vital bloodstream. To live vitally, open your self and stop blaming, judging, and daydreaming; let the flow clear now.
The vertical (me) stands free of the cross of suffering that forms when the horizontal time-line of past/future is nailed to it. In me there is nothing—no person, no thought—yet it is right, sweet, and beyond death. One may remain present with senses operating while not identified with them. Practice is simple: pause, be still, give rather than get, and refuse the intermediate world's pull. Place supersedes position; when one regains one's place of me within, outer circumstances ease and serve.
14 - Sensation, not feeling
