Can Everyone be Enlightened?
Recording 03 of 20
The Innocence of Not-Knowing: Becoming like a Child again
Barry Long explores the nature of enlightenment, describing it as the return to an inner state of nothingness akin to the newborn’s innocence. He emphasises the distinction between external, sensory experience and profound inner intelligence, urging participants to release memory, attachment, and personal identification.
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LENGTH: 1 HOURS AND 56 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1994
PLACE RECORDED: CABARITA, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Therapies, Realisation, Enlightenment, Self sacrifice, Time, Projection of existence
SUMMARY
Enlightenment is presented as the dissolution of attachment to worldly experience and self, requiring a conscious resolve to let go of the personal and historical. Barry guides the audience to perceive the psychic reality beneath appearances and to overcome habitual thinking by residing in the sense of being.
Through vivid metaphors, Barry clarifies that enlightenment is not an intellectual pursuit but the realisation of the inner world, which is veiled by habitual thought and experience. He warns against dependence on external teachers or therapies, insisting on personal responsibility for inner liberation.
The talk contrasts the flux of sensory and psychic experiences with the enduring stillness of inner consciousness. Barry instructs listeners to see through the world's emotional grip by identifying attachments, thus making space for a deeper, effortless communion with truth.
Audience questions deepen the examination on self, future time, authority, and the repetitive nature of emotional pain. Barry insists enlightenment comes from honest self-inquiry, not from philosophical or therapeutic diversion.
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