Woman is waiting to be loved
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Impersonal and personal love
Woman waits as the earth; man must be man enough to love her. Cats and dogs symbolise impersonal and personal love; God is intimate goodness known now, not believed. Priestly fear and lust-as-thinking confuse children. Die to unhappiness; go through clouds and emotion to the Most High.
LENGTH: 29 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1990
PLACE RECORDED: TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Cat and dog symbolism, Priests, Teaching children, Food, Knowledge vs belief, Symbolism of nature, Belief and religion, Man and woman in love
SUMMARY
The talk opens turning at once to woman's timeless waiting and man's duty to arrive in love. Barry uses the cat and dog to divide impersonal love—relaxed, wise, timeless—from personal love—busy, obedient, coming and going. Woman is the measure of love; man must be man enough to love her. God, meanwhile, is not personal but intimate, immediate goodness—joy and brilliant intellect now. Belief is a poor substitute for knowledge; the example of money demonstrates the difference, since money's utility is known, not believed.
Priestly teachings, he says, have sown fear and confusion, especially around lust. Lust is the thinking and imagining about parts; masturbation is only an effect of that thinking. Children inherit this confusion. Let them ask questions so intelligence replaces belief. Across cultures, Buddha, Krishna, and Jesus are venerated, but none is God; they speak of the one unnameable good. Life forms feed on life forms. We also feed on emotions: anger, guilt, or love. Choose the wholesome meal and cease feeding on unhappiness.
Finally, he maps an inner cosmology: earth beneath clouds of sorrow, the moon as emotion, and beyond, the Most High—clarity like a starry sky within. Go through clouds, beyond the moon, and die to unhappiness, so something good can arise.
Outline – What is Woman? Do you believe in God? The corruption of our children by the priests/Christian church, Not making a meal of unhappiness, Realising the most high, The starry heavens and the clouds