Talks on the Secret of the Golden Flower
Talks given from 11/08/78 am to 26/08/78 am English Discourse series
1 Animus and Anima2 Empty Eyes3 The Atomic Moment4 I Mean Business Here!5 To be One Again6 Born with Joy7 Turning the Key8 Real is for Always9 Riding on a Miracle10 The Zorba-Buddha Synthesis11 The Whole and Holy Circle12 To Create a Balance13 A Listening Heart14 The New Man15 Beyond Indolence and Distraction16 In the Lake of the Void
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 I Mean Business Here! 14 August 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 THE RIVER ULTIMATELY REACHES THE SEA. THE BODY GOES AND THERE REMAINS ONLY EXISTENCE, THE INFINITE. WHAT THEN IS THIS URGE AND THE PURPOSE OF GETTING THERE NOW? ISN’T IT PUSHING THE RIVER? Hamid, the problem is that man is NOT a river, man is very much frozen....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 To be One Again 15 August 1978 am in Buddha Hall IN THE BODY IS THE ANIMA. THE ANIMA IS FEMININE (YIN), IT IS THE SUBSTANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. BUT, BESIDES THIS, THERE IS THE ANIMUS IN WHICH THE SPIRIT SHELTERS. THE ANIMUS LIVES IN THE EYES: IT SEES, IT DREAMS. BUT WHOEVER IS IN A DARK AND WITHDRAWN MOOD, AND CHAINED TO HIS BODILY FORM, IS FETTERED BY THE ANIMA....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 Born with Joy 16 August 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO ENJOY? Rani, it is difficult to enjoy because you will have to disappear. Joy is possible if you are not. You and joy cannot coexist: when joy is there you are absent, when you are there joy is absent. They are like light and darkness – they can’t exist together in the same place....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 Turning the Key 17 August 1978 am in Buddha Hall MASTER LU-TSU SAID: WHEN THE LIGHT IS MADE TO MOVE IN A CIRCLE, ALL THE ENERGIES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, OF THE LIGHT AND THE DARK, ARE CRYSTALLIZED. WHEN ONE BEGINS TO APPLY THIS MAGIC IT IS AS IF, IN THE MIDDLE OF BEING, THERE WERE NON-BEING. WHEN IN THE COURSE OF TIME THE WORK IS COMPLETED, AND BEYOND THE BODY THERE IS A BODY, IT IS AS IF, IN THE MIDDLE OF NON-BEING, THERE WERE BEING....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 8 Real is for Always 18 August 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 WOULD YOU TALK ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISILLUSIONMENT AND CELEBRATION. I’M FEELING A STRANGE MIXTURE OF THE TWO – A DYING AND A COMING TO LIFE AT THE SAME TIME. Venu Gopal, mind lives in illusions. And to live in illusions is to be miserable, because they cannot be fulfilled....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 9 Riding on a Miracle 19 August 1978 am in Buddha Hall MASTER LU-TSU SAID: ‘RELEASE IS IN THE EYE... THE SEED-BLOSSOMS OF THE HUMAN BODY MUST BE CONCENTRATED UPWARD IN THE EMPTY SPACE.’ IMMORTALITY IS CONTAINED IN THIS AND ALSO THE OVERCOMING OF THE WORLD. THE LIGHT IS NOT IN THE BODY ALONE, NOR IS IT ONLY OUTSIDE THE BODY. MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS AND THE GREAT EARTH ARE LIT BY SUN AND MOON; ALL THAT IS THIS LIGHT....