What are Words For?

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[andriante]

But aren't you doing the opposite of what Tolle teaches?

I mean obviously it is a harsh world if you live in fear of death and form.

Yet if you live knowing that you are just a manifestation of the unmanifested and your purpose is to help the universe to become aware of it self you realize you don't "need" the world and you don't need it to be different than it is and that's when the true transformation will begin for you and the entire human race.

What do you feel about this

[vagabondsteve]

I don't always agree with Tolle. There are spiritual cliches like "manifestation of the unmanifested" which make no practical sense to me. What does it also mean to not "need" the world. If Tolle doesn't need the world to be different than it is why does he write books, give seminars, and appear on Oprah. His book "A New Earth" is promoting a new way of being. If he didn't want the world to change he would just sit in a cave.

[andriante]

Not needing the world means you are free from form, thus are able to release your fears about gain and loss.

Meaning you can enjoy life's many many pleasures to the maximum and you can strive for them, but it also means that you don't live in fear of losing them or not getting them.

And when death finally approaches, you do not fear it. It will be like going home.

You still want the world to become a better place, but ULTIMATELY you don't need it because it's fleeting and impermanent.

[vagabondsteve]

Well said, thank you.

[faszika]

aren't words like obsolete? i had many clashes even with my mother about this ppl get uncomfortable without the constant yakking

[vagabondsteve]

Obsolete no... overused YES. It's a joy to sit in silence with someone you love.

[BillyOhRayBob90210]

@vagabondsteve: You wrote: "Keeping one's word comes from good parenting." HAHA! I totally agree. One of the reasons I made the comment I did is because I was dealing with this one girl who would always "promise" me that she was going to do things, and I started to see that she never followed through. As I got to know her better, I found out her parents divorced when she was only a year old and she said she "hated her dad." I saw that as a big "red flag" and got the hell out of dodge! HAHA!

[vagabondsteve]

Good point. Non verbal cues are often more powerful than what people say.

[vagabondsteve]

Language is golden. It has only become superfluous because it has lost value through lies, false flattery, unreliability, etc. Like fool's gold we have devalued the currency of language because we don't "mean what we say & say what we mean".

[vagabondsteve]

"Talk is Cheap" was going to be the original title of this video. I ignore people's words unless they have a history of reliability. Then I will trust them until they prove me otherwise. Keeping one's word comes from good parenting.

[misseptember]

INTEGRITTYYYYYYY

[BillyOhRayBob90210]

I think this is one of your best videos, Steve. Well, I find it particularly relevant for myself. I was just thinking the other day that one of the greatest truths I've ever heard is the phrase, "Talk is cheap." I am also at a point in my life where I almost completely ignore other people's words, especially if they are talking about something that they say they are going to do in the future. If people tell me they are going to do something, I almost automatically ignore them now.