Eckhart Tolle’s best video, often quietly funny

For those who skip over my Tolle material, which is most of my readers, please give him a chance this time. 😉 He is deep and organized like the German he is, but also light and often funny, and never “exotic,” serving up Indian or Chinese trappings or vocabulary. Why should he? His wisdom is pure Aryan, and those who brought his ideas to India and Chinese were racial Aryans.

No, he does not go into race or the jews (topics we WNs cover anyway), but into why people resist the truth, any truth, and why the world is and has always been such a “sh—-le,” to use Trump’s expression.

It may not yet make sense to you, but then, as Tolle gently says, you need a year or two to suffer more mentally, to be in agony about yourself and the world…. and then you will be ready.  😉 No rush….. You have many incarnations ahead of you to flounder about some more — if suffering needlessly turns you on. 😉

Eckhart Tolle on his big theme, “The Power of the Present Moment”:

0:47 – Eckhart Trolle on Meditation
3:15 – 6:10 Start with why? Now
6:10 Step 1 – Sense perceptions
9:50 – 10:30 Us vs. our thinking
11:00 – 12:00 vs gadgets and texting
13:45 – 14:05 being in your head versus aliveness
15:00 – 16:01 from sense perceptions to woah I am alive right now
16:10 -16:53 – 17:47 In your body meditation
18:10 – 20:30 Tolle vs. thoughts taking you over
21:00 – 21:35 Present moment summary
21:45 breath of fresh air
23:10 deeper dimension
24:20 clouds metaphor, our fate is in our mind
26:10 what does it feel like to be you, now
29:40 horizontal vs. vertical dimension

Here are some very good comments:

T. Tyson Keanum
For me, no one has ever made more sense of spiritual teachings than this man. His words ring true from deep within. They echo so many other spiritual teachings but in a way that I am not pretending to understand. The understanding is felt from within. I cannot describe the comfort this approach brings to me and my anxious fearful self. Far better than any drug or therapy I have encountered for the past 20+ years.

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Cambria Wellness
Comfort is a wonderful adjective for his voice. He is very inclusive and accepting, as well.

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Faith Ratshinanga
I experienced the very same thing ,I felt God presence like never before .

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Isha Ridwaan
Totally agree

CouldLiveOnYouTube
T. Tyson Keanum eloquently stated. I agree with you in every way, from my experience as well

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LyrasRaven
Same for me. I woke up a different person when I listened to his guided meditation here one night. I felt the “I” behind the story of “I am”. It was the most powerful and empowering experience I’ve ever had.

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Harvey 94
So glad I’m realising all this at a relatively young age…

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sparky budda
I forgot how funny Eckhart can be “people have been repeating the words of Jesus for thousands of years and who has really understood them? maybe one or two Buddhists.”

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ACIM Wallpapers
The teacher comes when the student is ready.

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Ross Sharma
He should do stand-up, he’s killing

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Rochelle Zimmer
Eckhart, I’m forever grateful that you rescued me.

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Yogeysh Singh
Eckhart is without a doubt one of the most powerful spiritual people arrived on earth till now. Believe me, guys, drink him in as much as you can before the form dissolves…

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John Lewis
“If you’re born in a mental asylum you don’t know that everyone is insane”
Such a perfect description of our world.

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kath david
Eckhart makes me giggle, he has such a positive effect on me…. so glad i found him.

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dubaiproptrader
This was quite literally the best video I have ever seen in my life

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Yung Magi
Eckhart Tolle and his book “The Power of Now” have absolutely changed my life. There’s a deeper level of consciousness behind the layer of thinking, and from the perspective of this deeper consciousness without all the mind’s labels, comparisons, judgements, interpretations, things that SEPARATE “you” from “them” or “that” from “this,” you see reality as it actually is.

Then you realize that you are actually reality looking at itself, and so is everyone and everything else. Then you see that actually there is no “you,” and you and everything are in fact One. All one thing. To reach this deeper level of consciousness, you need to pull yourself out of the mind, step outside the thoughts and view them from a third person perspective. Do this also with your emotions, and your external reactions to these thoughts and emotions.

Become the witness to them. Allow them to come, to be, and to pass. Do not interfere with them. Do not resist or attach to them, and do not judge them. Just notice them as they come, as they are, and as they go, and pay more attention to the space between each thought, emotion, and reaction.

The more attention you pay to the space between it all, the “wider” the space becomes. You drift further and further out of the prison of identification with the mind, and deeper into the deeper level of consciousness behind the layer of thoughts. You also drift out of your identity which exists purely in the mind, and you drift away from past and future as REAL things, because you realize that past and future also only exist in the mind.

You move into a state of “no-self.” Detaching from the mind allows you to be in touch with the deeper consciousness, which brings you into the present moment. Then you see that you are actually pure consciousness, and you are one with everything that is and is not. You are formlessness and form as one. Reality experiencing itself. All these truths come to you in the present moment. Jesus said, “he who takes to the plow and LOOKS BACK is not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven.” What does this mean? This means that whatever you’re doing, wherever you are, be there FULLY and don’t think about anything else, don’t think about being anywhere else, don’t pay attention to anything other than what you are doing NOW and where you are NOW.

“The Kingdom of God is AT HAND.” What does that mean? It doesn’t mean that the Kingdom of God is around the corner, or some place up in the sky that you might go to after you die. The Kingdom of Heaven is AT HAND, which means that it is RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. The Kingdom of Heaven IS the Present Moment.

You and the present moment are not separate. The present moment is all that exists. Nothing exists outside of the present moment. The present moment is the CONSTANT, the ETERNAL, through will all things move, from which all things arise, and in which all things take place. The NOW is birthless and deathless and simply just IS, always, and everything that moves through the NOW is impermanent and subject to birth and death. You are the CONSTANT witnessing its manifestation as IMPERMANENT FORM from an individual perspective. The NOW observes itself from an uncountable number of different perspectives. You are the Now. The Now is everything. Everything is everything. All is one and one is all. In the present moment, you find true peace, true love, and true joy.

You see true beauty. You see reality as it is, and you get a real kick out of it because you realize that it’s all you. Peace.

(P.S.: Your mind will always try to understand it. Don’t identify these thoughts, because you will just end up confused. The mind cannot understand the truth of the present moment. It’s incomprehensible to the mind. Any attempt the mind makes at trying to understand the truth is made in vain, because the mind can only conceptualize and try to put it into a box.

In truth, IT cannot be put into a box, because IT IS the box and EVERYTHING IN the box. It is impossible for the mind to understand it because the truth of reality in the present moment is that reality is beyond all labels, beyond all concepts, beyond all interpretations. A TREE is not a “tree,” because what is tree? TREE is just a word. The WORD used to describe the THING that is actually nameless is just a WORD and is not the thing that it is describing. Your mind can only conceptualize, and in doing this it will separate you from everything and pull you out of the present moment.

The mind cannot understand it. When you stop looking at reality through the thick veil of thoughts, you see the essence of life in all things animate and inanimate.

You see that the only thing that separates you from anything else is the mind with its constant separating thought patterns (comparing, labeling, etc.) YOU and IT are ONE. Detach yourself from the mind, don’t identify with ANY thoughts, and see reality as it really is.

Eckhart Tolle is speaking nothing but the truth.)