Hold to the whole, not the parts
Recording 04 of 05 • Part 01 of 12
Keeping the fountain of feeling in equilibrium
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.
LENGTH: 30 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1989
PLACE RECORDED: TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Feelings, Guardian of the threshold, Scientists, Human brain, The psychic double, Woman and children, Feelings emotions and sensation
SUMMARY
Barry directs attention into the body where life, love, and truth are felt. He warns that the brain, limited to external assessment and post-event analysis, divides the inner wholeness into parts—anger, guilt, resentment—so they seem to take over. The practice is to feel the entire sensation at once, as one would view the whole body in a mirror, and refuse the brain's analysis. In this undividedness negativity has no foothold; the whole is good.
He explains the brain's rightful job—survival, measurement, probabilities—contrasting it with the mind that knows. When the brain is disturbed, the equilibrium of mind is lost; no theory answers grief. Life and the universe begin here, in the body now, as a globe within and without. Letters from listeners introduce the psychic double and the guardian of the threshold, which generate fear until surrender ripens. Finally, a pregnant woman asks if stillness touches the child; yes—beauty realised transmits through every gene and reduces inherited unhappiness.
Outline – An excercise in realising the living truth , The fountain, Feeling the whole undivided self , Why do I have a brain , The scientist , The universe , The psychic double , The guardian of the threshold, Can stillness pass from the mother to baby
03 - Talks from Tamborine Mountain '88
