EP24. Karma is Not Just Personal

Описание: This is the 5th recording in a series of 11, originally captured on March 2nd, 1997, during a 5-day session in Sydney, Australia.

We’ve recently digitised and remastered these recordings from their original analog formats, and we’re pleased to release this one freely.

This and many other recordings will soon be available through a comprehensive archive offering over 30 years of Barry’s teachings, available by subscription. Additional materials are also accessible through subscription on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...) and Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/34rcMFK...)

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Summary:

In this recording Barry Long urges each person to turn within, recognising themselves as the centre of their own universe, and to take responsibility for transforming the inherited ignorance of humanity. He explains karma as collective, not merely individual, and emphasises that one’s true task is to purify one’s inner light for the benefit of all mankind.

Barry talks about the inescapable inheritance of human karma, suggesting acceptance of life’s burdens and the surrender of futile resistance. Barry Long guides listeners toward releasing selfishness, accepting their circumstances, and discovering freedom through consciousness.

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Extracts:

"The point of the evolution of life on earth is for each of us to become cosmic enough as cells in the great body of mankind to enter the place of cosmic or universal love; to get rid of the sentimental love that ruins this earth, which makes everybody unhappy. That’s what your spiritual process is. You are actually getting rid of your self and your selfishness so that you can be with this universal love, this universal intelligence, this universal truth. That’s what draws you on. And that’s why you can’t give up the process. No matter what you try to do, you must have this love..."

'You are the most important thing on earth, as long as you are going down into your own being.'

'Everything every day is the past repeating itself in different clothing, in different circumstances, but it repeats itself… The ignorance of the past repeats itself in the present.'

'You are a cell in the great body of mankind, and our karma is not just what your life, your past, has made for it… The karma that is to repeat itself in existence is the karma of the human race.'

'The purpose of life is for me to purify myself, my cell, so there’s this renewal every second...'

'Love is of the earth. To lie with my beloved on the earth, to make love on the earth… Making love is of the earth; making sex is of the mind.'

'Consciousness has the immediate knowledge of everything, everything that I need to know, if I live in consciousness… But if I live in my human mind, I worry about this and I want to know that.'

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Further reading:

📄 "Aphorisms - Earth/World" – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art... –

The earth is beautiful, joyous, cosmic, eternal. There are no problems on earth. The world is the unhappy superstructure man has imposed on earth. The world consists of his problems. Both earth and world are within you...

📄 "Facing life as it is" – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art...

The world might say, ‘I want some music, a mantra, anything ­ but don’t give me this awful, cold, straightforward, utterly unavoidable truth.’ The world lives in the display, the exhibition. It laughs when its heart’s really breaking inside. It says, ‘Everything’s alright.’ And it’s not alright. Because everyone’s crying to the wall every night for lack of love...

📄 "The Can of Worms" – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art...

The self is a great can of worms. It has never solved anything in anybody’s life and never will. And yet it is the human race’s expectation that if I go into my self, I’ll be able to work it out. Rubbish!... It all stinks. It is all problem, all trouble, all self-indulgence...

📄 "The Objective Truth of the Psyche" – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art...

The human psyche consists of self - that’s its emotional centre. My self is the nucleus of my psyche. And all of us are like an orb of self at the centre of the great psyche that surrounds the earth. So, looking at the psyche terrestrially, we can say the self of the whole human race represents the solidness of oneself and the atmosphere around the earth represents the rest of the psyche. We are an orb of solid self and around it there’s a more ethereal self in which we think.

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Barry Long was a spiritual teacher who taught internationally from the 1980's up until his death in 2003. His spiritual teaching is grounded in practicality and addresses all aspects of modern day life.

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