The one intelligence looking through all eyes
Recording 06 of 10
From personhood to the impersonal intelligence
Running through the talk is a vast claim: one intelligence looks out through all beings, and beneath all suffering there remains a well-being that has no opposite.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 5 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1995
PLACE RECORDED: LEICESTER, UK
MAIN TOPICS
Intelligence behind life, Value of experience, Making Love, Divine love, Lineal and vertical perception, Nature of self, Vertical model, The earth and the world
SUMMARY
The central movement begins with a simple but far-reaching map. The senses stand at the top; just beneath them lies the hurt, defensive, emotional self; beneath that the pure psyche, a place of beauty and rightness; and beneath that spirit, the nameless intelligence looking out of every pair of eyes. The listener is urged to align with this vertical as a living orientation, not as a theory.
From there the talk turns to the making of the self. Experience itself is said to be pure, but every experience gathers emotional attachment, and that attachment becomes memory, rumination and eventually the hard or sentimental mass called myself. The speaker insists that what spoils life is not the body, not spirit, not the psyche, but this accumulated selfish pain that governs decisions.
The rest of the talk presses this recognition into practical, relational and existential terms: the self crucifies the body as the world crucifies the earth; secrecy feeds the self; suffering and love can force a passage through fear; and the work is to obey the subtle truth within, so that love and absence become embodied rather than merely understood.
05 - The impersonal life
