The ego as God’s burglar alarm

The talk leads from facing 'myself' to entering the still, black nothing called being, where consciousness is prior to awareness and love is fulfilled rather than experienced.

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LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 1993
PLACE RECORDED: Gold Coast
DURATION: 2 hours and 59 minutes

MAIN TOPICS

Meditation practice, State of being, Ego, Awareness and consciousness, Nature of self, Mystic cross, Absence of experience, Lovemaking, Transforming Sexuality, Practical advice for relationships, Honesty before love, Getting your life right, Beauty and the beast, Noble man, Penis and phallus, The Will, Change of life in woman, Menopause

EPISODE NOTES

Going into Me: looking at nothing – Rightful place of the ego: protector of the natural body – Going into Me: enjoying the egoic breath – Awareness and consciousness – Getting rid of self for the good of the earth

Self always wants to get – Nature of Me is to give – Mystic cross: self being refined and reduced – There is no experience in truth – Looking for experience in lovemaking – Feedback, fulfilment, absence of experience – Woman losing the old experience of love – Body dying with no fuss – Deep dreamless sleep – Going into Me: I am being, no movement of the mind

What is it that instigates the lovemaking act? Man's biological urge to make love – Men's excitement in watching sports on TV, breaking attachment – Am I ready to die now? – Fear of nothing; Buddha facing his sexuality and nothing arising – Insomnia, facing what I learned in my relationships – Intimacy and giving everything in partnership – Woman: giving everything in love or being demanding? – Honesty before love – Attachment to dying father

Practising being – Going into Me: crossing the point of the triangle, leaving the world of awareness – Getting your external life right – Beauty and the beast: woman, the beauty of the earth; turning the beast into the noble man – Penile servitude; changing the penis back to the original phallus – Will and willing – Change of life in woman