Attachment and Detachment
'Attachment is the emotion that comes out, comes out of us invisibly, like a tentacle of an octopus, and puts its hand around something.'
'...the source of it is in the chest, the solar plexus. When what I am attached to is removed by it either leaving me or dying or being taken from me, the pain of it comes straight back to my chest...'
'...there is lots of attachment where we love, because nobody's ever told us how to love without attachment.'
'...You can't turn your back on living, but we don't have to get attached to it.'
'...to be detached is to give up the concern about it all, let it rest where it is, and that's freedom – no hanging on to the last moment emotionally...'
SESSIONS
Emotional Attachments: The Invisible Chains
Length: 1 hours and 4 minutes
The Practice of Surrender: Giving up Thoughts and Attachments
Length: 1 hours and 28 minutes
Barry Long emphasises the necessity of dissolving the self, warning that habitual thought, emotional attachment, and familiarity in relationships undermine true being and love. He encourages practical surrender and presence in the senses as the path to harmony.
The Great Cycle of Life and Death
Length: 1 hours and 4 minutes
Taking Charge of Your Own Life
Length: 55 minutes
Barry Long asserts the need to take charge of one’s life by relinquishing emotional dependency and attachments, highlighting that true responsibility comes from intelligence rather than feelings.
Resting in the Place of 'Me’
Length: 1 hours and 49 minutes
Barry Long teaches the miracle of detachment, guiding listeners to rest in the state of “me,” free from attachment to self, emotion, or outcome. He emphasises the transformative nature of being present and unattached, enabling one to harmonise with existence and discover peace that surpasses understanding.
The Value of Experience
Length: 1 hours and 10 minutes
Subjectivity: Finding the true I in you
Length: 1 hours and 24 minutes
Barry Long establishes the foundations of the teaching: God is not personal, and neither is real love, life, or truth. Only by relinquishing the emotional, thinking self does one return to the impersonal divine state of being and consciousness.
The global Village of Ignorance & The Mystic Mountain
Length: 1 hours and 57 minutes
Using the symbolism of the mystic mountain Barry describes the inner journey from the lush valley of emotional attachment and sentimentality towards the disappearance at the summit in spiritual union with God. He emphasises the abandonment of emotionalism, sentimentality, and personal will in favour of a silent, intelligent surrender to the divine within.
