From The Flowering of Human Consciousness: www.soundstrue.com Come face to face with Eckhart Tolle, for a transformational meeting with this respected teacher and influential author. In clear language, Eckhart explains the process of entering the “miraculous” state of presence that is always available to us. We are lost, he says, in the maze of our own compulsive thoughts.
@richwfd2002 Would you consider yourself to be a good person?
@joseph82069 “I’m obeying his command to proclaim his gospel to lost sinners.” LMAO. You’ve got to be kidding! You are a liar. What you are really doing is attempting to validate your own shaky beliefs using emotional blackmail and fear. Because these tactics work on you, you demand that they work on others. Misery loves company. Spare me the phony concern. We’re on to you..
@yegg88 Notice he does not produce any evidence?? He whines and kvetches that his “faith” is being mocked without ever once taking reponsibility for the fact that he does it to himself, while accusing others of not wanting to be accountable. God, he is brainwashed. We should have a tax exempt chain of deprogramming facilities here in the US.
@joseph82069 Emotional blackmail does not work on many of us anymore, but apparently it does on you. There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ life. Mark, the earliest was written around 65 AD. The gospels were written anonynously with the names being added later and we do not even have the original manuscripts. Do not expect others to base their lives on superstition and hearsay. You are arrogance and hypocrisy and obesity personified. Jesus would be appalled.
@cornerstone111 “Eckart Tolle’s crap teachings don’t mean shit to anyone in those situations!” Hate to break it to ya, but neither do yours. You’ve been sucked in by charlatan preachers and are the victim of emotional blackmail, but all victims are willing in some way. “If you do not stand for something, you will fall for everything.” Wow, that’s exactly what you’ve done; fallen for unprovable hearsay. Hypocrite, hypocrite, hypocrite….
This teaching first came from Jean-Pierre Caussa book,
“The Sacrament of the Moment”, 1675-1751.
I’m not sure Tolle is really integrated in his Wisdom / Realization. He sounds like he’s permanently on valium. We don’t HAVE to talk that slowly in order to be realized.
But I agree with most of what he says. I just wish he would not sound like he’s half in some kind of deep sleep state.
@707Mendo …what ‘s so bad about satin? It’s a perfectly good material. Or perhaps did you mean ‘seitan’? No wait a minute…you were trying to spell ‘satan’, weren’t you?
@mcb3946 Oh, did you know that there are people starving to death in the world? Can they just think or meditate it away? Just Curious.
Did Tolle have a mental break down and then try to understand it with a variety of spiritual concepts? I only write this because his teachings never worked for me, I just felt like a zombie.
The solution to religious extremism is to
reawaken that sweet, secret, sacred bliss within ourselves,
to gently and generously share it with others,
to create environments conducive to that continuing quest.
@707Mendo Many people saw Jesus, followed Jesus. And later died because they followed Him. He claimed to be God and proved it.
Tolle is teaching in vain the doctrines of men. As a wise man once said “A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but rather delights in airing his own opinions” LOL
@FredericaBimble Real peace only comes from looking outwards lol
Thank you Eckhart. What you have to teach came into my life just when I really needed it. Namaste.
@joseph82069 proof is all around you dude…why cant any of you people see this? Why are you so blind?
Example:
Biggest/most powerful – Christianity 2.3 Billion followers
Yet christianity is based on one person who made it all. No one has seen this person, that person is God. Everyone listens and does what he says, instead of having their own beliefs of what they think they are to believe one narrow path on religion and who ever bypasses it or says wrong will be on the “saten” side.
@FredericaBimble Oh, but I certainly have understood this in meditation. With “external problem” I was just trying to differentiate (for purposes of discussion) the “problems” the mind invents with a condition that that the higher self would prefer to be changed. Tolle himself said that if one allows what is perceived as a problem to be what it is, instead of just worrying and thinking about it, then, “action is possible.”
@cornerstone111 – Your post is like so many others who are searching for meaning in their lives. When people lash out at others, it is because they have turned away from their own inner peace and nature. We ALL came into this life knowing that there is nothing to fear yet we are taught to be afraid. Try meditating on your own breath and eventually you will reach a point where you reach the silence. Once you feel this, your own voice awakens. It will change your life.
@partypants99 – One cannot “correct the external problem” because for every problem that one “corrects” there will be another to take the place of it. That is, until one finds the inner peace which allows one to fix the internal. The “problems” are always inside of us – never outside. For example: what you may call a “problem,” others may not even “see” and the same vice versa for you. If you meditate you will see this without anyone else writing it or telling you.
@707Mendo Where is the proof the bible=mass control. I’m waiting.
Philosophy is proof of what, the bible =mass control. That’s not proof.
Philosophy does prove that man is sinful and proud and egotistical. They think they are smart with their anti-God rhetoric. As scripture says, professing to be wise they became fools.
@Lee222222 Me too! I’ve kinda been realizing lately though, that expecting oneself to be detached from the ego only makes things worse… I’d say as long as one allows the mental dissatisfaction to run its course, and one then takes positive action to correct the external problem, everything will be fine.
@cornerstone111 The thing is he has understood there is no correct “side” to take, since all “sides” are just content of the mind and thus illusory- like he said at the beginning, “God, or your essential nature, is not something, not content, not form.” He’s just saying the only correct viewpoint is the nothingness behind the mind. What I would feel that Christ meant with that comment is “any mental activity is being against me” – with Christ’s “me” being the “formless being” Tolle mentions.
@joseph82069 Also for proof, it’s called philosophy. Do the research, open your eyes a bit and think outside the box.
@joseph82069 The bible = Method of mass control of the people.
@cornerstone111 Ok..why?