Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986
9 recordings
MEETING LENGTH: 4 HOURS AND 21 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1986
PLACE RECORDED: TAMBORINE MTN, AUSTRALIA
SESSIONS
The I that is the beginning and the end
Length: 29 minutes
The talk opens by rooting “I” as the ultimate truth—once attributed to prophets and god-like figures—now available as direct inner responsibility, not an external deity. The message: cease blaming conditions; be I, and the delight of life is realised.
The Master
Length: 27 minutes
Barry Long insists on staying with the presence and reality of I, where there is nothing to work out, and on recognising the Master—the one power that stops thinking—as the very I within the listener.
Listening as spirit: the way of negation
Length: 29 minutes
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.
Three ways of perceiving: truth, fact, emotion
Length: 30 minutes
From a mountain veranda, Barry describes rising above “Mount Misery” through surrender, distinguishing truth, facts, and emotional distortion while grounding perception in the beautiful earth.
South of South: the great negation
Length: 32 minutes
The talk distinguishes divine negation from the world’s opposites and directs attention “south of South,” where the need to exist falls away.
What you love, you serve
Length: 28 minutes
The talk exposes fear as the motor of impatience, ambition, mood, excitement, and achievement, and redirects love from the world to life through immediate being. The final authority is I that perceives; attending there ends fear, ends need, and reveals love as being.
Love that survives the death of memory
Length: 29 minutes
Barry contrasts a man’s imposed amnesia with the conscious self-forgetfulness of the spiritual life, insisting that responsibility for the moment turns hell into Eden.
Inner space is the same as outer space
Length: 29 minutes
A woman’s out-of-body experience open a teaching on entering the body, the identity of inner and outer space, and the calm alertness of conscious presence.
Going beyond meditation
Length: 28 minutes
Meditation has a place as a beginning, but the living truth is the immediate state of being—the pause beyond doing, the timeless cessation within which life happens. When ready, give up the method and be now.
