ECKHART TOLLE: AWAKENING IN THE NOW
A one-camera program that shows excerpts from a 2007 lecture by Eckhart Tolle. There is also an interview with Dr. Betty Sue Flowers, director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
"The thought is having you'"
Every thought has an emotion that goes with it. When you become conscious of that thought, it gives you space that has no turmoil or other emotion attached to it. Attention thereby allows you to have a thought rather than the thought having you. Even if you have positive emotions that allow you to succeed, you will find that this conditioning will not be enough and could even lead to feelings of sadness.
"Something is missing here."
The ego always looks for new experiences or objects in the next moment to satisfy it. We are conditioned either negatively or positively but we just don't know it. Few people truly live in the now. When we are tired and about to go to sleep, the noise machine in our head quiets down and allows us to live in the moment. But then we go into sleep and unconsciousness that allows us to get away from the noise machine of thoughts.
Our bodies respond to our thoughts as if they were real. When you're in bed and wake up to realize all your problems, your body begins to feel heavy and burdened even though nothing is really happening to it. Alcohol works to calm the noise machine but the price is you are moving toward unconsciousness.
"It's the now again!"
The ego always looks to satisfy itself by ignoring the present and looking at the next moment. But the next moment doesn't really exist except as a thought in your head. The future is helpful for practical purposes like meetings, but you can not touch it. When you get to the future, it is the now.
"What's so great about this moment?"
There are not many moments, just one. There is only now. The now just takes different forms such as your setting, your feelings and other things. They are just the form that the now takes.
"The is-ness of life."
Mantra: Can I be the space for this? No matter what situation you are in, whether good or bad, use this mantra. When you resist the situation you are in, or wonder if our life should or shouldn't be this way, that is the ego. When you use the mantra, you become the space for what is.
"It's already here."
The shift in consciousness comes from moving from worrying about the future or the past to the realization that everything you need is already here with you in the present.
A one-camera program that shows excerpts from a 2007 lecture by Eckhart Tolle. There is also an interview with Dr. Betty Sue Flowers, director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
"The thought is having you'"
Every thought has an emotion that goes with it. When you become conscious of that thought, it gives you space that has no turmoil or other emotion attached to it. Attention thereby allows you to have a thought rather than the thought having you. Even if you have positive emotions that allow you to succeed, you will find that this conditioning will not be enough and could even lead to feelings of sadness.
"Something is missing here."
The ego always looks for new experiences or objects in the next moment to satisfy it. We are conditioned either negatively or positively but we just don't know it. Few people truly live in the now. When we are tired and about to go to sleep, the noise machine in our head quiets down and allows us to live in the moment. But then we go into sleep and unconsciousness that allows us to get away from the noise machine of thoughts.
Our bodies respond to our thoughts as if they were real. When you're in bed and wake up to realize all your problems, your body begins to feel heavy and burdened even though nothing is really happening to it. Alcohol works to calm the noise machine but the price is you are moving toward unconsciousness.
"It's the now again!"
The ego always looks to satisfy itself by ignoring the present and looking at the next moment. But the next moment doesn't really exist except as a thought in your head. The future is helpful for practical purposes like meetings, but you can not touch it. When you get to the future, it is the now.
"What's so great about this moment?"
There are not many moments, just one. There is only now. The now just takes different forms such as your setting, your feelings and other things. They are just the form that the now takes.
"The is-ness of life."
Mantra: Can I be the space for this? No matter what situation you are in, whether good or bad, use this mantra. When you resist the situation you are in, or wonder if our life should or shouldn't be this way, that is the ego. When you use the mantra, you become the space for what is.
"It's already here."
The shift in consciousness comes from moving from worrying about the future or the past to the realization that everything you need is already here with you in the present.
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