Only the body is real now
Recording 21 of 48
Distinguishing sensation from the interpretative swirl of feelings
Only now is real, and only the body is now. Thought and emotion are interpretations that remove us from being; sensation is the body’s truth. To live spiritually is to be the body here, without feeling or self-judgement.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1996
PLACE RECORDED: GREENMOUNT RESORT, COOLANGATTA, GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Now, Being in the body, Entering the body, Vital being, Knowledge vs interpretation, Suicide, Channelling psychic entities, Food, Physical exercise, Evolution, Absence of experience, Me inside the body, Freedom from unhappiness, Consciousness, Matter, Evolution of humanity
SUMMARY
Barry Long begins by dismantling the abstraction of 'now', showing that what we call now slips into past the moment we name it. The one demonstrable now is the body. Everything we see, read, or think happens as the body; without a body, none of it exists for us. Thus 'only the body is real,' not as materialism but as the living gateway to what is behind the body—the immortal vital being that appears through it moment by moment.
He draws a hard line between sensation and feeling. Sensation belongs to the body and is true; feelings are interpretations and make us unhappy. The mind cannot know directly; it believes, doubts, and lives in the past. When we interpret illness or difficulty, we add a second burden over what the body can already meet. Refusing interpretation restores repose and intelligence.
Practically, the call is to give up anger, resentment, fear, and especially self-judgement. By being the body and doing what is right now, we leave nothing of depression behind for others to carry. This is justice and love in action: a life that burdens no one, even in dying.
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