Eckhart Tolle: Nirvana Is Already Here

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[mulkytool]

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

[sotthapana]

@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.

[larrisa1978]

@lightbrownpoop i do the same dam thing lol

[lightbrownpoop]

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

[ulispointofview]

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

[ulispointofview]

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.

[squamish4244]

@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.

[squamish4244]

@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.

[aceman528]

@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.

[sotthapana]

@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.

[killercreek450]

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