We search, we see a glimpse of something, the glimpse becomes stronger and we jump in, maybe to that which we glimpsed, and we feel good and then we want to hold on to it, don’t we? And then when it all tumbles down, and maybe we find ourselves even so down that we are on the floor, then we feel terrible and wonder what happened to that great state we found. That’s the big trap, but what is a description of that trap, anybody knows?
Talk Unacho 8th of February 2017 29th in the series ‘The Grass Roots” https://michaelbarnett.net/mp3/tom/2017/20170208_Just_One_Look_And_We_Are_In_Love.mp3 I’ve been listening to reports on your experiences, states of being and lifestyles as a result of the Rebirthing session you did in the autumn and your Winter Festival experiences. And what you’ve been able to leave behind, and what you haven’t been able to leave behind. The process of evolution has at the present time human kind as the outstanding representative of the evolution of living beings. And the continuation of that, as I have seen since a young age, has to come [...]
We live in this world so we are going to be touched by it, we don’t have to stick our heads in it but we are touched by it, and then some things not so gross as those things, little things or comparatively smaller things can happen in your life; with troubles, as I said before, with intimate people, you think everything is going beautifully with somebody, a friendship or a relationship, and suddenly: ‘My God, someone has betrayed me and gone off with somebody else so I feel negative,’ and then you either react too strongly or you try and ignore it, and I am saying, well, let that sink in and accept it, let it come in and let it take you out of your light into a feeling of darkness, maybe, or unhappiness, and then you sit with it. Still your light is there, it hasn’t obliterated your light, and then out of the mixing of that you suddenly find that you are capable of walking on in your life, and in a way that has changed from before the event; that negativity has in a way produced more positivity in you afterwards. Really, it gives you more positivity because you see that you have dealt well with the negativity, and that is a big plus for you and makes you joyful, on a deep level it makes you joyful: ‘I dealt with it, I thought I was going to be labouring with dealing with this maybe for a long time, but I took it in and I let it move my system and I felt my system reacting negatively to it, I took it in and allowed it to be there and I carried on with my life, and suddenly I feel that that has given me a new jump in dealing with life.
When you play, when children play, the play is out there, and they know in a way that they are playing. Even if they get lost in the play, which is a good thing to do sometimes, still in some place inside them they know that this is a play, so when you play you retain a connection with that which is beyond play, and that goes back to what I began to say this morning, to learn and realize and live the fact that you are more than your life.
There is what I might call an original energy out of which specific energy comes. We are all specific energies, every one of us. There has never been a repetition. Now that they are doing cloning there might start to be some repetitions, copying, but otherwise it’s incredible that of all the people that have lived, and not only the people but animals as well, there has never been a repetition. They even say with leaves that there’s never a repetition, that no two leaves have ever been exactly the same.
The idea of loving oneself is completely ridiculous. I mean, you are yourself, you have no choice but to be yourself. As soon as you say you are supposed to love yourself you have got two people there, the lover and the loved, and the loved doesn’t always do what the lover wants him or her to do, and so you say ‘I don’t love myself.’ Don’t divide yourself up into the judger and the judged, you have no alternative but to be who you are right now.
You can tell your foot to stop, and usually it stops because you don’t identify with your foot, but you do identify with the mind, you think the mind is your smartest part, that all the good things that happened for you, all your inspirations, all your successes, all your intelligence has come from the mind, and if you really were able to stop it you feel that you would lose all these qualities immediately. So it is a stupid game to try and stop the mind when you believe in the mind.
“I feel really at the centre of my being, no need to do anything, just taste my source” - and then we move into an activity and maybe, maybe not, you leave the source behind and proceed, as we all do in life, doing one thing after another.
The laughter I am talking about is not about anything, it just comes. It is not that something entertains you and so you smile or you laugh at a joke or because of something, I said that sometimes I find myself laughing and I have got no idea why I am laughing, but I know that I am laughing in a way about the whole thing.You say you laugh because you are happy. Well, you can laugh because you are happy, but sometimes I laugh and I have no idea what I am laughing about or who the one in me who is laughing is, but I know the one in me who islaughing is laughing at something that my mind cannot grasp or that I couldn’t put into words because I am happy, you know. So when you said you were laughing I wondered which kind of laughter it was, but you laugh because you feel good, ha?
Talk Winter Festival Sampurna 28th of December 2015 11th in the series ‘Becoming You’ https://michaelbarnett.net/mp3/tom/2016/20151229_Thats_Attainment.mp3 So, this man Gautama the Buddha was teaching and talking for forty years. And it is calculated that he gave 17,500 sermons, as they were called then. I have a long way to go, and I don’t think even Osho managed so many! One day everybody gathered for the morning talk and Buddha sat there on his chair and said nothing. And sat and said nothing. And sat and sat. And then one of the disciples there, Mahakasyapa, began to laugh. And Buddha called [...]