Gold Coast Talks 1996
5 recordings
MEETING LENGTH: 13 HOURS AND 6 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1996
PLACE RECORDED: GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
SESSIONS
Simplicity of God and the burden of self
Length: 2 hours and 20 minutes
God is simple; the complication is emotion. Look down from union, not up through opinions. Love by giving up yourself, act when you can, and when you can’t, surrender without anxious caring.
Nothing arising: the rarest state on Earth
Length: 2 hours and 43 minutes
Barry Long invites immediate entry into being—stillness without object—by dropping emotions so the mind can go quiet. From this ground, consciousness (within) and awareness (without) are one, and life can be lived factually rather than emotionally.
Purpose has no object, only subject
Length: 2 hours and 43 minutes
Purpose is not an object to attain but the living subject giving up negativity now; goals take time, purpose takes no time.
Only the body is real now
Length: 2 hours and 45 minutes
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.
Purpose in love, partnership, and aloneness
Length: 2 hours and 35 minutes
Barry exposes purposelessness in love, partnership, and aloneness, and insists that real purpose is stillness—being now—while love between man and woman becomes purification and depth without losing intelligent attention.
