Ego as armour: protecting the wrong thing
The ego should guard the body; instead it guards pain. Intelligence can turn inward to 'me', where nothing arises and peace is known, and from that stillness life is lived rightly.
'Your fear is the bushel hiding your light; uncover the breast and be fearless.'
'I am the intelligence in matter—looking out of your eyes, the crow's eyes, the horse's eyes.'
'Be of good cheer. Everything passes.'
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LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 1994
PLACE RECORDED: Gold Coast
DURATION: 2 hours and 48 minutes
MAIN TOPICS
Ego, Intelligence in Nature, Sensitivity, Me inside the body, Meditation practice, Albedo, Menopause, The truth behind reincarnation, Vital cell, Cycle of life and death, Predispositions, Death, The psychic double, Seven heavens, Star, Big bang, Symbolism of nature, Cosmic symbols, Demonic energy, Orbit of the moon, Judgment, Resentment and jealousy
EPISODE NOTES
Ego and intelligence – Sensitive or thin skinned – Territory and possessiveness – Going into Me: reflect on Me, the holy one, the innocent one – Mind and first heaven – Older woman with younger man – Menopause – Albido
Reincarnation: fact, truth and fiction – The cell – New baby body, negative and positive – Predisposition – Reconstitution of cells – Going into Me: be the nothing
Death: psychic double – The heavens – Realising the psychic double – Going into Me: sink into nothing, intimations of the psychic double, consciousness and the senses – Seeing truth behind appearance
Demonstrating being: everyone a star – Moment before the big bang – The heavens – Pure intellect – Satellites and space rubbish – Self's way and the way of Me – Space between earth and moon – Demonic energy – Cunning – Beyond the moon – Judgement – Your life, your task – Fact and truth of jealousy
Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - July