Transforming Sex into Love
In this episode, Barry Long explores one of the most unique aspects of his teaching—the distinction between sex and love. He reveals how this revolutionary change can make your most intimate relationship an ever deepening expression of love. Barry explains how transforming the selfish drive of sex into love is essential for spiritual development, leading to a deeper union between man and woman. With practical wisdom and spiritual depth, this down-to-earth talk outlines the steps that ultimately lead to the mystical union of man and woman.
LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 2000
PLACE RECORDED: Cabarita Beach, Australia
DURATION: 1 hours and 30 minutes
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EPISODE NOTES
This episode was recorded at Cabarita Beach, Australia - November 2000, at one of the longer ‘Master Session’ public meetings.
Highlights and extracts:
‘Sex is really love, only it has a selfish drive in it. Eventually that drive becomes the drive to master yourself and to transform your sexual drive into love.’
‘All love fundamentally is the love of That – the love of God, the love of It – That which is behind everything, behind all existence. All love is that. You have that love inside of you because you came out of that place, that vastness, into conception in some woman's womb. You came out of that place. And to that place, your consciousness and intelligence will return. So, you have that love inside of you, where there are no problems, where there is no movement, where there are no bodies, where there is no necessity for separation, because all is one, although you have an individual consciousness, you cannot separate the part from the whole. The part which is the individual consciousness is the part of the whole and, therefore, cannot be separated from it.’
‘Woman is a totally different creature to man. Woman's desire is not to possess – in her immediacy, her love is to give – her love is to give and to please man. Her desire is to give everything to him – to be able to open up completely and utterly to the male principle – that's what love is.’
‘Woman is the hope of it all – of stopping man, and how does she do this? She's got to know – 'What do I want,'
'Do I want sex or do I want love?' That's the fundamental question that's coming at you, woman’
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