Returning to innocence as the years deepen
Age is for becoming simple again—empty of self, free of moods, able to say 'I love you,' and at rest in being nothing.
'Age is supposed to be the movement back into innocence.'
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LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 1994
PLACE RECORDED: Gold Coast
DURATION: 2 hours and 50 minutes
MAIN TOPICS
Ageing, Ordinary life as the holy life, Me inside the body, Teaching children, Love, Illness, Cancer, Facing death, Gnostics, Psychic phenomena, The radial, Enlightenment, The Will, Soul, Life forms are robotic, Will and willfullness
EPISODE NOTES
Ordinary man – Purpose of life and growing old – Curiosity – Going into Me: returning to where I come from – Teaching child to think – Shadowlands (the movie): the establishment
Shadowlands (cont): love – Cosmic value of cancer – Explanation of death to child – Faith, gnostics – Going into Me: emptiedness, facing nothing – A foolish letter: discarnate entities – Programming the incredible robot body
Human body is God's vehicle – Going into Me: place of nothing, no trying, the radix – The radial – Fear has no body – Giving up intensity – Earthly experience: waves of self
State of enlightenment: level playing field – Beauty – Going into Me: being, the will, no need – Idea embraced by the will – Soul and self
Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, March