Me and my self in the body
Recording 05 of 07
The master within, the disciple within
Barry speaks of the truth of the divine life as it really is: me, the still and silent power within the body, and my self, the subjective troublemaker of feeling and thought that must surrender to me.
LENGTH: 56 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1997
PLACE RECORDED: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Surrender, The Master, Me inside the body, I me and my self
SUMMARY
Barry draws a clear line between two realities inside you: the master, which he calls 'me', and the disciple, which he calls my 'self'. The self lives as feelings, notions, and thoughts; it is unreliable, circular, always wanting more — searching for God, searching for enlightenment, chasing the impossible 'brilliant moment'.
He insists the master is not outside. The outer teacher is only a representation of what is more real within you than anything in existence, because everything in existence must pass. The spiritual life is the process by which the disciple is brought—through right suffering—into utter surrender, so that the self is aligned with me and ceases to take you away from truth.
He asks you to follow this in your own intelligent experience: where you feel unhappy is inside; where you feel pleased is inside; all feelings are inside yourself. Then see what never moves inside you: the stillness and silence of being, with no opposite, the rightness and goodness that is God in you.
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