Dissolving Emotion and Living in the Present
In this episode, Barry Long reveals a powerful principle for dissolving emotion—without searching the past for its cause. He then guides listeners on a inner journey into the stillness and silence of ‘Me’—the one place within that is free from emotion. Through this deep inner descent, he points to the limitless depths of silence and the ultimate realization of God within.
LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 1993
PLACE RECORDED: Pan Pacific Hotel in Broadbeach, Australia
DURATION: 1 hours and 27 minutes
EPISODE NOTES
This talk is one of the Gold Coast Talks series and was originally recorded: 6 March 1993, at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Broadbeach, Australia.
Excerpts:
'I, my attention am descending every second into 'me', there is no end to the depths of me. It becomes more silent, more still, more real in it’s absence of any-thing. If I go deep enough into this stillness and silence inside of me I reach a place that is called GOD. I will have no doubt when I reach that place, but before I reach it nobody can ever describe what it is. But this is where that God, that so many have tried to find, this is where it is.'
'You can only be joyous now. Whenever I am emotional, I am thinking about the past. Now, when you're thinking about the past, it means you're not here. You're not present. You're not aware of what's happening now. And if you're not aware of what's happening now, then you can't be aware of 'me' because I'm only present now. So whenever you are emotional, then really we are not together. You see that?'
'I say to you, you will never learn where you went wrong. You will never learn from the past. The only way that you can learn is to be in the present...'
'In order to be honest, we have to be willing to feel everything, both the good and the bad. We have to go past our emotions, which can sometimes be the source of our unhappiness. And into a place where there is no opposite...'
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