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Post by misc on Dec 29, 2008 22:32:58 GMT -5
This is another great teacher who is definitely enlightened and straight forward. Youtube him.
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Post by mrsnacks on Jan 9, 2009 23:42:52 GMT -5
I checked a few videos of his. Very simple and to the point. Truth is simple.
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Post by sam on Feb 19, 2009 15:26:04 GMT -5
Sorry folks,
Barry long was not an enlightened master. He is one of the more successful plagiarists and artists. His big mistake was to pretend he was a master. The fact is, he was very inspirational – a great quality for a spiritual teacher but he stole his material. Initially, from the Vipassana Research Institute. His prophecies are not his, they his take on what is largely Buddhist cosmology. Barry got his shouting style from Sayagyi U Ba Kin. He was a shouter too. Many big names plagiarised from the VRI. They all went to Nepal, did a course with the VRI and Burmese teacher U Ba Kin and came back to the west and declared themselves masters. What Barry, and the others didn’t banked on was the advent of the internet. So Barry had to mix and match a bit with psychology. Now we have a wash of self-confirmed masters talk rivers loads of waffle and self aggrandisement.
By the way the VRI is a cult as well – sorry to say as I am a buddhist. You try and talk while one of their (so called) teachers is talking. I guarantee you get a filthy response. The teachers don’t teach Buddha Dhamma, they just demand you defer to them. They think nothing of kicking people out who are found to be doing other techniques – really you are out there and then! However, their 10 day course is free and I must recommend it if you are up to 10 hours of meditation a day for 10 days. They call their technique vipassana but it isn’t But it doesn’t matter, it’s meditation.
Getting back to BL, I’ve been familiar with his teaching (in fact I’ve taken it to bits with a fine tooth comb) since the 80s and watched his recent videos of him. Towards the end he was a sad case. I once asked him if he knew what it was he was actually teaching; he stormed off without answering. He hated me because he knew I knew he was a phoney. Yet all I wanted was someone to inspire me to meditate as they years went by. I suspect towards the end he regretted not playing it straight. Barry also lacks ethics. Barry skipped this as people aren’t to keen on discipline. Despite his ability to inspire, he was a great pretender.
I feel I must write that the spiritual life is, first and foremost, based on ethics and meditation. The spiritual life is long distance so pace yourself.
Regards
Sam
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Post by Guest on Mar 24, 2009 0:29:52 GMT -5
Sorry folks, Barry long was not an enlightened master. He is one of the more successful plagiarists and artists. His big mistake was to pretend he was a master. The fact is, he was very inspirational – a great quality for a spiritual teacher but he stole his material. Initially, from the Vipassana Research Institute. His prophecies are not his, they his take on what is largely Buddhist cosmology. Barry got his shouting style from Sayagyi U Ba Kin. He was a shouter too. Many big names plagiarised from the VRI. They all went to Nepal, did a course with the VRI and Burmese teacher U Ba Kin and came back to the west and declared themselves masters. What Barry, and the others didn’t banked on was the advent of the internet. So Barry had to mix and match a bit with psychology. Now we have a wash of self-confirmed masters talk rivers loads of waffle and self aggrandisement. By the way the VRI is a cult as well – sorry to say as I am a buddhist. You try and talk while one of their (so called) teachers is talking. I guarantee you get a filthy response. The teachers don’t teach Buddha Dhamma, they just demand you defer to them. They think nothing of kicking people out who are found to be doing other techniques – really you are out there and then! However, their 10 day course is free and I must recommend it if you are up to 10 hours of meditation a day for 10 days. They call their technique vipassana but it isn’t But it doesn’t matter, it’s meditation. Getting back to BL, I’ve been familiar with his teaching (in fact I’ve taken it to bits with a fine tooth comb) since the 80s and watched his recent videos of him. Towards the end he was a sad case. I once asked him if he knew what it was he was actually teaching; he stormed off without answering. He hated me because he knew I knew he was a phoney. Yet all I wanted was someone to inspire me to meditate as they years went by. I suspect towards the end he regretted not playing it straight. Barry also lacks ethics. Barry skipped this as people aren’t to keen on discipline. Despite his ability to inspire, he was a great pretender. I feel I must write that the spiritual life is, first and foremost, based on ethics and meditation. The spiritual life is long distance so pace yourself. Regards Sam Actually I dont know where you got this information from, but he heavily influenced Eckhart Tolle... |
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Post by donfer on Apr 30, 2009 1:32:00 GMT -5
yes, I don't think many people know how strongly influenced Tolle is by Barry Long. I think he has finally acknowledged him as his teacher.
Barry was most definitely enlightened. I agree that he was flawed, but there's no doubt he was what he said he was.
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Post by subtractmenorah on Jun 19, 2009 16:11:23 GMT -5
Sorry Sam, I don't think (and I don't feel, either) that you can define for all of us what "enlightenment" is. You express your own opinion, nothing more, and nothing less. "Enlightenment is the end of suffering", said the Buddha, and I think this is the only common denominator we can have. There are as many ways as there are people. Is this really so? How do you know he hated you? Because he didn't answer your questions? Or because he stormed off? How do you know? Or do you interpret things, assuming things you don't explicitly know? Well, Barry's teachings on love surely count as ethical, I'd say. Him being a pretender: Again, how do you know? How can you know? Do you have proof? Or do you have assumptions? So you say: "spiritual life = ethics + meditation". You forgot to add: "This is my opinion." You simply can't know what tools will help people. For some, ethics and meditation may work, for others, it may be ethics and medication... There are billions of human lifeforms on this planet, and you think you know what their spiritual life should be like? Peace, Norbert |
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Post by sugarfields on Nov 9, 2009 12:18:16 GMT -5
Barry Long doesn't ask for any of us to follow him and he doesn't view himself as anyone else's teacher. We are all incharge of finding our own truth. I find it interesting when anybody has such a strong reaction to someone else yet they still choose to have an interaction with or about that person. Strong emotions brought up in yourslef need to be looked at as there being something that that person has unsettled in you. It is not the other person's issue.
Being conscious leads to your own truth.
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Post by karen on Nov 10, 2009 20:26:11 GMT -5
If Barry stole his stuff, that would seem to imply that the original was a novel invention and nothing more.
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Post by coastal on Jun 5, 2010 19:24:13 GMT -5
Yes 'donfer', I don't think people realize how much Eckhart Tolles teaching is influenced by Barry Long.
I have read all Barry Longs books and have many of his tapes and videos.
Eckhart refers to things that Barry was saying many years before, such as:
'The sensation in the body'
'The pain body' (Barry called the Pygmy)
Woman being closer to Enlightenment (Barry always seemed to hold woman in higher esteem than men spiritually),
'True nature of Space and Time' from 'The Power of Now' - Just read Barry Longs 'The Origin of Man and the Universe' to see the similarity here.
I know real Spiritual teachers are pointing at the same thing but I don't think Eckhart gives Barry nearly enough acknowledgment.
However I have read 'The Power of Now' and 'A New Earth' and Eckhart certainly seems to be the genuine article when it comes to what he has realized.
28th June 2016 - I was wrong comparing Eckhart Tolle to Barry Long. After listening for 'some time' over recent years to Eckhart Tolle he is (for me) a genuinely brilliant teacher.
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Post by morathistle on Oct 25, 2010 18:35:13 GMT -5
This is all a bunch of opinion about Barry Long -- so, I'll weigh in and say after watching several of his videos, I had no interest in ever meeting the man. Enlightened? Not enlightened? Who knows, just not for me!
MoraThistle
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Post by jesvk on Jun 19, 2011 3:42:05 GMT -5
i have read and practiced different masters and teachers ,ie Krhisnamurti, Bagwhan Rasneesh, Robert the Robb, Jesus, Werner Erhard, Gurdjieff,Ram Das,John Bennet,Herman Hesse,Carlos Castaneda, Lobsang Rampa and many more. Some of these teachings I spent years with, not just a fly by nighter. When I finally took on Barry Longs teachings it was the closest that I have come to full revealment of love ,life, death and truth for me. I dont know about any one else.
But I do know that his teaching was able to reveal what others had not, especially concerning love between man and woman.
Every ones teacher is personal if his teaching resonates strongly in you. All the others teachers were necessary to bring me along to Barry Long, my last teacher. To complain or take a position about this teacher being better than others is just bull shit.
Why not grow up, gave them their dues and move on. remember, it is you going to this teacher, not the other way round. Thank you to all those who taught me, whatever that may have been, and especially Barry Long! and for myself, cause thats who I can talk about with first hand experience and knowledge.
Jes v
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Post by laurie on Mar 22, 2015 11:30:06 GMT -5
Unofficial Barry Long Tumblr blog posting quotes, pictures, videos and longer extracts from Barry Long's books, audios and videos.
Barry Long Quotes
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Post by bluey on Jun 28, 2015 12:32:48 GMT -5
I was with Barry for many years, when I first had my initial awakening twenty years back. He was my second teacher. I knew nothing of his teachings when first seeing him just a picture in a magazine in wh smiths and many night visions after as there was still a fog of misunderstanding back then as to what had happened as my thought process had just gone a few blocks down the road and I was in a different space of being. I vaguely remember booking a hotel away from the site in Leicester where he was to appear that year and as I wasn't sure if it was a cult as I was still getting to terms of this no space maturing within myself and the shake up that ran alongside it but there was a real pull within to go see him. I used to work on the market selling leather in Birmingham City centre, that day I went to see Barry the market lads were huddled around a stall watching a boxing match. That always brings a smile to my face.
When I was there I don't know what was said but much was felt. I remember not being able to swallow a bite of a tuna sandwich too as I had booked away from the venue with their meals and accommodation as it was cheaper too. And this was another episode during those years that was pulling me to a more plant based diet as that was what was needed for me at that time. My present teacher Ian Wolstenholme ran his organisation for many years and he has some interesting things to share on the many years he spent with Barry. I know some say he was a showman and yes to some extent that may be true but there was much not on show which is what I had gone to see him for. And on meeting Ian I never knew he was linked to Barry in any way but again it was the pull to be with this teacher too as more needed to be undone and seen through. Two very different teachers in their expression but I'm grateful to both and the one in both.
Bluey (Bach shergill) Birmingham UK
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Post by laurie on Sept 26, 2016 16:17:53 GMT -5
"You cannot understand your life. You cannot understand your relationships. You cannot understand love. You cannot understand God. You cannot understand the purpose of life.
You have to be love, be truth, be life, now. And in the being, of course, there is no distance - so there’s no need to understand. You only need to understand something separate from yourself."
~ Barry LongRecent post from Barry Long Quotes on Tumblr See also the Barry Long Foundation website and YouTube channel.
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Post by bluey on Nov 22, 2016 18:49:09 GMT -5
Laurie when I 'awakened' or the ocean poured into the drop life presented me with Barry Long for a while, Ian a teacher who was presented to me later ran his foundation. I remember Ian, and me sensing, knowing he was in that space as he greeting seekers to the door my eyes smiled at his eyes....Walking past him was like walking past myself, in its fullness. Not knowing we would cross paths down the line. That's a beautiful story in itself. Even how I came upon barry is beautiful. But Barry I knew nothing of his teachings but I could feel the truth as I sat there smiling and at times I heard a woman in his teachings break down in tears in his satsang. And as you know, as I feel you do Barry was quite an untamed teacher very wild yet I would feel his heart pour out to that person and his voice change and he would be humbled by that tear in that persons eye. Why I'm glad he was presented to me at some stage as we are very similar in many ways and not in other ways. And that's the beauty when you awaken no two flowers burst open at the same time but the opening the fragrance is really felt understood on an inner level.
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