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  • @lightbrownpoop i do the same dam thing lol

  • post 2. The ludicrous question of 'who am I' is a thought seeking an answer for itself. What propels one to seek if there is nothing to find in the first place? Thoughts running in circles - or running to india, tibet, nepal and whereever else thought takes the body. Seeking is a THOUGHT with the prospect of finding. There is nothing to find because there is nothing hidden!! Your thoughts are OBVIOUS! and someone sitting there 'watching the mind' is a part of the mind watching itself. LOL

  • i question the separation of awareness as something different than thought. that which looks at a thought IS thought - I am looking at xyz... is a thought. "Just looking" i.e. 'witnessing' is awareness - which is also a thought. Contemplation is thought, so is concentration. Meditation is a thought also - without thought, no meditation, thought is what makes our behinds sit in the lotus posture 'watching thoughts' . Thats actually hilarious.

  • thanks for putting this on you tube

  • not that hard after all I guess, I can realize that i am aware from time to time

    and if i overlook thiat, it is because i don't give a shit about it, it never brought me joy, hope nor satisfaction or piece of mind, we still have to go through this fuckin life, trying to be happy about the fact that we are alive. what is the god damn point of beeing aware of awareness ?

    it feels so mechanical and so "so-what" ish ...

  • @MonTicheDansTaMere

    Is that you or your mind speaking?

  • @MonTicheDansTaMere i once heard a spiritual teacher say "if you're offered 1 million dollars or enlightenment, take the million dollars". the stillness cannot make all of your dreams possible (maybe some lol) but it can give you satisfaction.

  • @killercreek450 I've had the same question. Why become enlightened? Isn't ignorance bliss? Is suffering really that 'bad'? Or can I just not see the big picture because I'm not enlightened.... -____-

  • @aceman528 you will know suffering is bad when you suffer, obviously. it's enough to let go and enjoy.

  • @aceman528 I recommend reading Eckhart's "Power of Now" or listening to his "Stillness Speaks" audiobook. When you experience the kind of mental stillness that Eckhart talks about (which he attempts to point you to), you can maybe get a sense of what it would be like to live your entire life with that kind of awareness.

    Enlightenment truly is a different experience of life. It's like having another sense, but a sense that sees things as they truly are, without the subconscious.

  • @sotthapana Thanks man. I'll check his books out, but I do understand the stillness of which he speaks as I am an experiencer myself. I do believe Tolle is highly advanced in self-awareness I just question his use of the term Nirvana which I hold a more Tibetan Buddhist definition for.

  • I would say nirvana is experienced when you turn off your mind and emotions and experience the world using only your five senses (hearing, taste, touch, sight and smell). Which, by the way, only occur in the present moment. The mind and the emotions associated with it are the source of all misery.

  • All you stupid out there bringing God bible jesus with Eckhart's teachings....where actually all he teaches is getting out of your mind and living life with awareness. Its that simple stop conceptualizing stuff its the ego right there. Whatever u try to do to be present will further get u in ur mind its far more easier to watch the "doing" !

  • the teachings of eckhart have taught me to not read any comments.

  • @mulkytool i think 99% aren't worth it, but there could be some gold in there...how to know though?

  • @mulkytool wow, i just realized that before i watch every youtube video, i scroll down and look at the comments first, lol.

  • Hahahaha savana906 ohh my me dude I love Jesus to if it was true but how can you repent hahaha that's some funny shit hahaha this man was more like Jesus than many and there are still stupid people trying to shut the truth up well nope not anymore the truth is everywhere in different people there is no killing every profit if u will so eat me boss video thank u very much soo inspiring

  • I agree with most of what Eckhart says, but just a momentary experience of stillness is not nirvana. It shares some of the qualities of nirvana, but true nirvana is when the mind rests in that state permanently, which causes a dramatic shift in perspective that goes to the root of ego and removes it forever.

    Nirvana is the complete death of ego.

  • @sotthapana Was he not also saying that at first, it would be momentarily (non-thinking) but with practice, those moments would become more frequent and of longer duration, finally becoming what you are describing, permanent non-thinking, or nirvana....? In the "Power of Now" he explains that this is what the aim is, but we must necessarily start with small steps. Just a thought.

  • @taxfundi Yeah you're right, I'm sure I remember him saying that, but I'm just not a big fan of using these words so loosely. There are so many teachers who claim to be "enlightened", etc, and I feel this is pretty misleading to those who take such terms very seriously.

    Most teachers who say things like that are "self-realized" but not enlightened

  • @sotthapana I had the same thought. I agree with Tolle's concept of 'awareness' for I, myself, am often aware of my ego, but I only find it in moments of stillness, otherwise my ego is the pilot. According to this video I've already found Nirvana but I disagree. I think the concept Gautama Buddha talked about is complete death of the ego, a point where you no longer have a psyche or mind but instead full awareness of what 'is'. I think Tolle himself is far from there.

  • @aceman528 Yes, unfortunately almost every spiritual teacher seems to downplay the fact that complete enlightenment is really something so rare and special... And it requires hard work... The hardest kind of work.

    Gautama described that any meditator who practices correctly can achieve enlightenment in 7 years. The problem is the "practice correctly" part... The closest thing I have found to fit this is Vipassana meditation, which seems to be the technique used by Guatama.

  • @sotthapana My view as well. For instance, look at two of the most popular Western teachers, Tolle and Adyashanti. Both are no doubt highly advanced, but neither has a teacher (Adya did, but not for 20 years now), and both seem to think they are 'done' in terms of awakening. Adya is more clear, IMO, on how ugly the path can get - he described it as a 'bloody mess' in one talk - and on his own many years of practice, but to my knowledge he stopped a long time ago.

  • @sotthapana My opinion is influenced by Tibetan Buddhism, where there are many stages on the path to total enlightenment, which is defined as a state where the ego is so utterly demolished that the physical body itself literally turns into light. Hence the phenomenon of the 'rainbow body' in Tibet where practitioners' bodies shrink away to nothing when they die. This achievement is obviously not said to be easy, lol.

  • 3:50 I had a meditative experience about the same, it was something like each thought and each moment i experienced were seperate from each other, identities rising and falling...

    Judgement comes from emotions, emotions arise from situations and the will, the will is the receptacle of love, love thereafter has many forms (faith, hope, curiosity)... and with understanding the receptacle of wisdom humans are guided towards goodness, If wisdom and love in god how could he judge his children?

  • Tolle is true reincarnation of the great teachers like Budha, J.Krishnamurty with a great sense of humor and yet with his own personal way to open minds of the audience. Jesus said "don't think of tomorrow it will take care of itself", J.Krishnamurty said "Thruth is a pathless road" Thanks to teachers like Tolle we can think of a possibility of the real new age in spirituality

  • Words have meaning, they convey truth or error. Tolles' words are error. God has created us, we sin, God must punish sin becaise He is good, holy, just. There is one way to have forgiveness of all of those sins you commit. Through Christ alone.

  • @joeforHistruth the answere to your comments lies in your comments:)

    You divide world into thruth and error, bad and good. I hope you don't think of a beared God looking upon us from Heaven? Adam and Eve were send from "Eden" exacttly because they tasted that division of mind:Good and Evil. You never thought why "God" was so angry? I'll give you one:

    Division on good and bad was and is always subjective and that brought our civilization to endless conflicts.

    Remember that!!!

  • You say only throught Jesus? How do you know Jesus? if you realy knew Jesus you would recognize Him woud't you? How many "Jesuses" were persecuted or underminded by Christian Church because they spoke of universal for non Christians and Nature(Francis of Assisi) You church under the name of Christ and Good cause were doing horrible things to humanity just because "you' thought they were evil"

    I hope you are not the one who thinks one thing, says another and does completly another?

  • @TenelliVoiceGuru I know Jesus because I heard the gospel, I was convicted of my sin by the Holy Spirit. He leads us to Christ. I repented and by faith alone I trusted in Christ alone for salvation. I am now saved by Gods grace alone. Not of me or what I've done, all of God. I'm not a catholic(false form of Christianity).

    Whatever was done in the past by people who claimed to be Christian but were not is irrelevant. Jesus is the only hope for man, that is what's important.

  • @joeforHistruth Good for you new born:) but for me, Jesus through Gospel, is the distorted version of Son of a Man, mythology created later to take advantage of the great Teachings of Jesus Christ.

    If one reads Bible with an open mind it will open a totaly different picture of the Great Jesus.

    But you need an open not conditioned with teachings of priests or gurus.

  • @TenelliVoiceGuru Who Jesus is is not open for debate. He is the incarnate Son of God. What we feel or our opinion doesn't matter. The bible has one meaning, not many.

    Jesus said repent and believe the gospel.

  • @joeforHistruth All clear now, thank you!

  • @TenelliVoiceGuru And I'm not conditioned from priests and gurus. Those are Gods words, not mans

  • @joeforHistruth Then you are possibly conditioned by the Book aren't you?

    So you take a Book with words(Bible says that God cannot be discribed or even named) and you believe in words that cannot discribe God taking them for Real God?

    If you believe in words, then you must believe that God can be discribed by them.

    If that's so, then you don't know the scripture, sorry:(

  • @joeforHistruth God is the living nature, open your eyes and you will see it everywhere and now.

    You want to believe in God, because you don't know Him.

    Believing and knowing are 2 things very different in quality.

    The best way to know God is to love Nature, people of different faith, love animals.

    The worst way is to pretend, say many things, but do the opposite, be a hypocrite.

    Hypocrites are 99% in so called orgenized religions(doesn't matter what faith)

    Cristians are the worst ones...

  • @TenelliVoiceGuru No that's pantheism. The true God, the God of the bible is seprate from His creation. I know God because I have reopented and trust in His Son Jesus for forgiveness, for salvation, this is the only way to have forgiveness and to know God. Jesus requires belief, belief in who He is and what He did, when you come to Him for salvation then you know the truth. Well you don't know me so you can't say I'm a hypocrite, I'm not. It's a cop out to use that as some excuse for unbelief.

  • @joeforHistruth

    The image of God your comments seem to portray is uncomfortable close to that of a whimsical God; one who is little more than a glorified religious tyrant- one who says "it's my way, or the highway..". If you ask me, I would have to say it's a depressing caricature of the Divinity. Don't dwell too much in it my friend, lest you end up with severe emotional problems. Cheers!

  • @ImSchnitzer In a nutshell it is Gods way or the highway. Since He is God and He made you, He gets to call the shots. Man is sinful, man has no hope without Christ, the Son of God. He is the only way.

  • @joeforHistruth I don't need hope, becouse I'm not committing any sin right now, so...why should I need salvation, if there's no sin existing in my experience at the moment. Have you been saved? Are you sure? If not, How can you know that He is the only way?

  • @kopadenieve We all have sinned. Even if your not sinning right now doesn't erase what you have done. Look at the commandments. Have you lied, lusted, hated, taken Gods name in vain, stolen??? Those are some, how did you do? Like God says, all have sinned, there is none righteous, no not one.

    I am saved. Through the Son of God, Jesus. Who as God became man, lived sinless and went to a cross to bleed and die and rose from the grave 3 days later...........

  • @kopadenieve Christ claimed and proved He is the Son of God, God with us. He said, I am the way, the truth, the life, no one comes to the Father but through Me. That is exclusive, that also means all other ways, beliefs, religions are false. Salvation is through Christ alone. He is the only hope for all people, in this life and the one to come.

  • @joeforHistruth So why didn't he say "I am the only way, the only truth, the only life"

  • @kopadenieve I am the way, the truth, the life, no one comes to the Father but through Me. John 14:6

    So this is saying there are other ways?? Jesus said no one comes to the Father but through Him. That is exclusive. It says in the book of Acts, there is onename under heaven given among men where by we must be saved. That name is Jesus. There is one mediator between God and man, that would be Jesus. He is the resurrection and the life, He is the Light of the world. He is the only hope for all.

  • @joeforHistruth And before Jesus was born?

  • @kopadenieve Jesus is God, the second person of the Trinity. He is eternal, no beginning, no ending. The Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the Almighty!

  • @joeforHistruth Well, it seems you got an answer for every question. Good boy, you have studied! I think I have heard that answers, but anyway, you got me! Now let's pass to the next issue: "What's the name of the lord?" Yeah daddy I love that one, woo-hoo! This is so much fun, and this moment is so wonderful... wait... This moment is wonderful...hmmm... NIRVANA!!!

  • @kopadenieve Jesus said to repent and believe the gospel. Apart from that you are under judgment in this life and eternally when you die. I pray you repent. Today is the day of salvation. It's appointed to man, once to die and then the judgment.

  • @joeforHistruth

    My dear friend, I'm afraid that God is a figment of the Greco-Roman (pagan) imagination, not the God of the Jewish Bible. The God of the Jews is not in a power trip- He sets forth no conditions: Only that we do not do unto others that which would be hateful to ourselves (in other words, that we love our fellow human beings as ourselves). The rest, is just commentary. Shalom

  • @ImSchnitzer No conditions? Then you havent read your Jewish bible. God is not on a power trip, He speaks we believe or don't believe, and the unbelief brings consequences. Jesus is the God of the the bible, from Genesis to Revelation, He is the Messiah. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, the life, no one comes to the Father but through me. John 14:6 At the time He was speaking to Jews, but this is true for every person on earth. He is the Savior of the world. Peace

  • @TenelliVoiceGuru

    Right on the money my friend. In fact, all there is to religion can be summarized in just 9 letters: "God Is Love" (1st John 4:16). Stay the course, you are in the right way!

  • Haha from 5:32 is hilarious, remindsme of my old roommate :)

  • @Yaylin2 why do u have to be in almost every Eckhart Tolle video I have to watch? if you're a real Christian, you wouldn't dislike/hate/curse another human being. I love Christ, but I don't get his people. -__-

  • @ladyserene100 He is simply lost in his thoughts, that is all.

  • @ladyserene100 i agree, thank you my friend

  • Be now. Worry later.

  • Wow. How subtle. Yet profound.

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