Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1989

Hold to the whole, not the parts

Length: 30 minutes

The session begins by entering the whole sensation of the body—the living truth—and remaining undivided while negative feelings rise like jets in a fountain. Hold to the whole and the brain cannot fragment you into problems.

Tired of living, or only tired of trying?

Length: 29 minutes

Living is meeting what comes now; “trying” is the restless attempt to meet life in advance. When upset, one is tired of trying, not living. Release attachment, face the facts here, and the strain dissolves.

Where art thou: recovering the second person

Length: 29 minutes

The talk opens with language—how English, made materialistic, lost the sacred second person. “Thee and thou” once named love; their absence mirrors our estrangement. Restoring the second person restores the sacred between us.

Feelings appear in the inner mirror

Length: 29 minutes

Feeling—now—is the only reliable mirror. Either you are enshrouded in the deathly heaviness of problems or enrobed in the lightness of life. Thinking cannot tell you; sensation does.

One will, not two: ending the inner quarrel

Length: 30 minutes

The talk begins by ending the fiction of two wills. Willfulness is a belief that creates two wills where there is one; unity is found by refusing to divide and by being oneself now.

Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1989 - June

Length: 29 minutes

The myth of aloneness and the summit life

Length: 31 minutes

Barry directs attention to the starry heavens—the “Most High”—as the living sign of God, then brings the listener inward to the “sense of sense” in the solar plexus where life is truly registered.

Shine in this matter at midnight

Length: 30 minutes

In the night when worry rises, enter the body and shine awareness as the sun of “I” until peace comes.

Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1989 - September

Length: 29 minutes

Love is present, not remembered; loving a memory creates all hurt. The senses and music can soothe, but only being love ends division.

Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1989 - October

Length: 29 minutes

The “awful truth” arrives as the moment when hope dies and everything seems lost; beneath it is life. Meeting this intensity demands responsibility: either we do it, or it is done to us.

Smash the dams of self

Length: 29 minutes

A personal disclosure becomes a mirror: use the disturbance to look within, then follow a teaching on dying versus not dying, the unhappy human animal, fulfilment through doing, and the Earth Spirit as love in every sense; end by smashing inner dams and setting all in its place.

Appalling shadow and the pall of life

Length: 30 minutes

A discourse on the appalling shadow shows how negativity and excitement collude, and how equilibrium and joy erase the manipulation within.