GOLD COAST TALK 20 FEBRUARY 2000

At the beginning of each session Barry makes a comment about his ‘umbilical cord’. His remarks refer to the microphone lead which trails behind him as he enters.

Personalising your life ~ Looking and thinking ~ What is life? ~ Hearing, knowing, realising and then living the truth ~ Life is an enormous pressure ~ Death and depersonalising life

The great cyclic movement of life and death ~ Going into Me (4 mins) ~ Meditation is only a stage, not the end ~ Do not fight illness ~ Question: How do I listen with my whole body? ~ The four stages of living the spiritual life

Quote from the prophets: ‘remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth . . . ’ ~ The world’s greatest mind hasn’t been able to work out what woman wants ~ A caution about realising and being able to contain the truth; psychic possession ~ Vaginal awareness and vaginal consciousness: human pleasure and divine pleasure

Questions: Can a man be in a similar state to woman’s vaginal consciousness? Does man lose interest in sex at a certain age? Could you speak about awareness and witnessing? ~ Question: Are you in a lineage of spiritual teachers? ~ Question: Do you say that man should never ejaculate in making love? ~ Question: Is there a difference between personality and self? ~ Question: How do you reconcile the choicelessness of accepting things as they are, with the pursuit of joy, positivity and happiness? ~ Question: How can I move on after the break up of a long relationship?

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Four men in the teaching with cancer: facing death, the end of hope, dying without fear ~ The spiritual life is about equilibrium ~ Going into Me ~ What happens to a man when a woman of consciousness leaves him; facing the pain

Facing the pain cont’d ~ Song: Bitter Cup ~ Choice: did you know that every choice is wrong? ~ Question: How long do you look and not make a choice and is that the same as not taking action? ~ Satsang is an eastern word: I call a spade a spade

Burning out the pain ~ Each of you has a challenge which is the circumstance of your life ~ What it is like to be a human being here on earth ~ The psyche and the different levels of God realisation

You are provided with the master who fits your level of consciousness ~ Question: Can you speak to us on singing, dancing and celebrating? ~ Question: Can you speak more on human love being warm and conscious love being cold and sharp as a razor? ~ Ruth and ruthless ~ Question: I am one of these people who holds satsang ~ Question: I am finding it difficult to be open in love, to receive

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Perfection: the earth is perfect like your life ~ Acknowledging the good expands your consciousness ~ Instinct, consciousness and awareness ~ Achievement ~ Death was made by God ~ Life is good: just acknowledge the good and you will be transformed ~ Going into Me ~ Question: How can I stay in consciousness when you are not here?

My transcendental realisation ~ Just love him ~ Website, woman and love ~ Celibate man ~ Question: To which situation should I be true? ~ The black cloud ~ Every child will suffer ~ Black cloud of unhappiness ~ Advaita and illusion

The rose has lost its smell ~ Scientific mind and progress: the race from the fear of death ~ Vandalism: lack of discipline and boredom in children ~ The cause of domestic violence ~ Grief comes from ignorance ~ Angels in your life

Angels ~ Christian religion ~ The meaning of lady and gentleman ~ Question: Is there a process of re-evaluation after the death of a partner? Death is a purifying process ~ Death of a father ~ Cooking food ~ Question: Did the gods create existence? ~ Question: I can feel and smell the presence of my grandmother who died, but I don’t understand it ~ Question: When religions engage in untruth, eg the crusades, why isn’t it self-evident that an evil is being perpetrated? ~ Death of my partner, a wonderful thing for us both

GOLD COAST TALK 17 DECEMBER 2000

May I speak to you of death? Men who have helped this teaching who have recently died ~ What you really are is intelligence. It will give you whatever you focus on ~ Consciousness exceeds the speed of light ~ How do you have a choice when you’re dying? ~ Hope comes from having a future

Going into Me ~ There is no gender outside existence ~ Whatever you start naming, you get ~ Going into Me ~ Sex is the pursuit of love ~ Imagination and romance ~ Question: Woman working in the world and passion ~ Question: I feel ready to die but also have some fears

Predispositions: people are born with different dispositions ~ Religious ceremonies ~ The purpose of existence and death ~ Going into Me ~ The pain of birth and the pain of death ~ The sixth dimension

Physical pain ~ Going into Me ~ Everyone is asked to sit on a chair ~ Are you ready to say goodbye? ~ What is a real sannyasin? ~ Question: I just lost someone who I loved ~ Question: A friend killed herself and I feel sad when I hear her name ~ When Barry Long dies