Barry Long's Journal Three

Barry Long

Description

The journal of a spiritual master as he travels through Europe and America in 1991 speaking to audiences about the truth of life and love. Barry Long's engaging comments about the places he visits, his autobiographical stories and witty observations accompany penetrating articles and extracts from his talks. Every item in this Journal illustrates what it was for him to live an ordinary life as a spiritual master in the western world. And at the same time it presents some of the most powerful of his teachings that exist in print. The Journal was produced at the time for people coming to his talks and as a record of the current themes in his teaching. It's a collection of his writings and sayings, along with extracts from his extensive correspondence and edited transcripts of public talks. Three volumes were published serially and together they are a kaleidoscope of spiritual insights and inspirational wisdom. The Journal is easy-to-read and offers a fascinating glimpse into both the global and the cosmic vision of one of the most powerful teachers of the twentieth century

Sujets

• Body
• Mind

Informations

• Publié par: Barry Long Books
• Date de parution: 13 février 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781899324422
• Langue: English

Extrait

BARRY LONG ’ S JOURNAL documented a living teaching and collected his writings, sayings and letters with notes made on his travels and extracts from his public talks and seminars. Also included are longer keynote articles that focus on the theme of cosmic consciousness and its practical application to living the divine life.
The Journal was published originally in parts as the ongoing record of Barry Long’s life and teaching in 1990 and 1991. It charted the introduction of cosmic consciousness to his audience as he travelled the earth becoming a world teacher.

First published in 1994 by
BARRY LONG BOOKS
BCM Box 876, London WC1N 3XX, England
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© Barry Long 1991, 1994
© The Barry Long Trust 2018
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Ebook: ISBN 978-1-899324-42-2
Cataloguing-In-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library.
Editor: Clive Tempest
Cover design: Ginny van Rensen
CONTENTS
Changing Karma
June 1991 ∼ Items 143-161
Item 143
Item 144
Item 145
Item 146
Daddy, where’s God?
Item 148
Item 149
An unforgiving dialogue…
Item 151
The bad disciple
Item 153
Item 154
Letter to a meditator
Making the best of a bad job?
The big kiss
Drug culture
Chakras?
Continuations in the mind
Item 161
More Cosmic Consciousness
July ∼ Items 162-186
Adam and Eve
Item 163
No unhappiness now
What the psyche is / How the psyche works
Item 166
Item 167
Item 168
Connected words
Item 170
The Cheese Man
Out walking, in the forest
An overdose of perception
Item 174
Item 175
Face the fact: your lover has left you
Right suffering is a sacrifice
Everybody dies for themselves
Masters are provided, one way or another
‘Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do’
Item 181
Love is not to make you happy
Item 183
On the line
You are here to enjoy your life
Talking to Buddhi
August ∼ Items 187-191
Item 187
Advertisement for The Teaching Week in England
Item 189
The dream of love
The journey
Of Masters and Men
Nothing is good enough for me
September ∼ Items 192-211
Item 192
Item 193
Item 194
Item 195
Going to the Wall
The evil beyond man
Item 198
Item 199
The journal of my life
Item 201
Item 202
Hausfrau
Item 204
Going nowhere
The God of science
What’s the difference between a philosopher and a spiritual master?
The dream of reincarnation
The Third World War is over
On knowing nothing
Item 211
Of Masters and Men
I put you in your place
October ∼ Items 212-237
Item 212
Item 213
Item 214
My Lady of the Stones
Item 216
Item 217
Item 218
Item 219
Did life start as a wobble?
A reply about Buddhism
Item 222
Item 223
Item 224
The first seminar in America
Item 226
Talking about love…
Item 228
The Night of the Full Moon
Funny place, America…
Item 231
‘Enlightenment doesn’t wake up with a moody on.’
Dismantling the personality
Good news travels fast
Item 235
Item 236
Item 237
Notes and Sources for Journal Three
Bibliography
Barry Long’s Journal items:
Journal One – items 1 - 73
Journal Two – items 74 - 142
Journal Three – items 143 - 237
Changing Karma
From a talk given on the evening of Monday 17 June 1991 during Barry Long’s Teaching Week, ‘Living The Divine Life’, on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
I am going to speak on the Law of Love and the Law of Karma – a talk on the reality of existence and the way to release the burden.
Although the subject of karma is a very intriguing one I don’t want to go too deeply into the intrigue of it. I want what I say to apply to your life.
The important thing is, you don’t have to understand what I’m saying. All you have to do is listen. I am going to be speaking the truth and the myth of life. You are the truth of life. You are existence. It is your mystery, your wonder. You are the great myth. But you have forgotten what you are.
All you ever have to do when you hear the truth or the myth, is listen. Don’t try to work it out. Don’t think about it; it’s going into you anyway. It is an awakening call. It goes deep down through your eyes, through your ears, through your five senses, deep into the body, which is your subconscious mind, and there the subconscious sorts it out for you. All you have to do is be innocent, be open and enjoy being here.
So first, the Law of Karma. Karma is said to be the law of cause and effect, but really there is no cause. There is only the effect of an effect of an effect. Everything is an effect of yesterday or the last moment.
The law of karma is that everything repeats itself. Karma comes energetically in waves, just like the waves of the sea, coming towards you all the time. The waves of yesterday, all the days since you were born, the waves come to you. I am talking about you, the person sitting on the seat; about you and your life, because that’s the most important thing there is. Everything happens to you. If it doesn’t happen to you, it has no meaning in it.
There is a world karma and there is a personal karma. You can’t really handle world karma until you handle your own karma. So let’s start with the personal karma, and all the effects since you were born.
Even your birth had an effect. It affected all the people around you and even your screams, your gurgling, your being in a pram, had effects. All the effects repeated themselves, either next day, next week or next year.
Every moment, I (in your body) am creating an effect, which will have an effect tomorrow or next week or next year. Every moment creates the wave of effects in our lives. We set the waves in motion. It happens just too fast and is too all-encompassing for our superficial frontal consciousness to get around. But you can get the idea can’t you?
I say I am a living master. What does that mean?
It means that I am lord of my karma. Now perhaps you’ve heard talk of ‘the Lords of Karma’, as used by the mystics of the East as well as Madam Blavatsky, the Theosophists, and all their followers. You can get one of their books and for a few days read all about the Lords of Karma in some imagined world, sitting up in the Himalayas, arranging all the karma. But it’s not true. You are the lord of karma, the master of your karma, your life – or you are endeavouring to be.
I am the lord of the earth, the lord of the world of karma. That is what it is to be the living master. You have forgotten this.
Don’t put your I out here on the speaker, will you? Keep it where it belongs. Which is where you speak of ‘I’ – in the body sitting on that chair. For I am man or woman. And the reality of existence is for I in that body to become lord of karma; for you to become the lord of your own karma so that you are not pushed around by the winds of change and by the world of effects.
What happened to you today? Whatever happened to you today also happened to you before, and happened to you before that. Yet not in quite the same way; because karma is an energetic thing. It’s like the agitator in the bottom of a washing machine. You see the washing going around and you see it’s in different places and there’s froth on it. The agitator is always down at the bottom unseen, and is energetic. The effect of the agitator is different all the time. So the energy of karma plays in form, changes the forms. We call that circumstance – people and objects. Karma just keeps moving them around so that you don’t see the agitator … Well, the agitator is in me. (Don’t put your ‘me’ out here. The agitator is in me in that body on that chair.)
My life is the result of yesterday. It was a nice day today, but if today you lost something dear to you, it wasn’t a nice day. The chances are you didn’t even see the blue sky and the sweetness of the day; and who could blame you? You are heavy with the burden of unhappiness or sorrow. That is due to your karma, and we will go into why you are suffering later. But then life gets better. Things change.
So why is that? Why is it that life seems to get better? It doesn’t matter who you are, life does get better, doesn’t it? And by the time you’re my age you’ll look back and say ‘Life’s alright. It hasn’t been too bad’. It’s amazing how people say that isn’t it? It doesn’t matter what’s happened to them. That is because the whole process here is to change your karma.
Everybody is changing their karma to a degree but when you start to enter the spiritual life, or what I call ‘Living the Divine Life’, you become more responsible for yourself and your life, and then you start to start to control your karma.
What is it to be responsible?
Okay, the effect has happened: today has come, and something has happened to me. Am I going to complain about it? If I do, I’m not responsible. I will set in motion an effect. It will have to happen again to me. If I complain, it will have to happen again to me in a different form, through a different person, a different circumstance, tomorrow or next day or next month. If I blame someone for what happened, thinking about how he did that to me, holding on to the emotion of it, seething with it, I will have to face that event again; because I am not being responsible for my life – for I caused it; I did it.
You did it. You did it in the past, and now it chases you. It’s chasing you tonight, tomorrow. Karma is always chasing y