Listening as spirit: the way of negation | Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - June
Spirit is pure receptivity—listening, poise, and humility—rather than the world’s positivity of expression, projection, and achievement. In this stillness unhappiness ends now, not by managing time but by ceasing to produce it.
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LANGUAGE: English
MAIN TOPICS
positive and negative energy, Negation absence, Freedom from negativity, Equilibrium, Spirit, Cause and effect, Freedom from unhappiness
EPISODE NOTES
Barry contrasts the world’s training—“emote, promote, present”—with the spiritual negative: listening without involvement. Poise, amid sunsets or arguments, is the state of the spirit. The only reliable measure of a teaching is freedom from unhappiness now.
Cause and effect governs the body and mind; it does not bind what one truly is—love, life, truth. Identified with body-mind, one suffers swings; immersed in truth, there is no opposite and no bondage. Even moral polarities good and bad arise from choice, whenever you choose to be one or see one, you create the other. The way is humility: produce nothing, and let spirit act.
Outline – The state of poise , The negative way of the spirit, The substance of truth is freedom from unhappiness, Cause and effect: I am not subject to it, nor is life, nor is love.
Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, April