Tolle reads A NEW EARTH

What, in essence, is Eckhart saying? That "you" are not simply "your thoughts." That your true self (soul, consciousness) is beyond both mind and emotions (ego). It is instead that part of you which is aware of your thoughts. You cannot be aware of repetitive thought patterns, and simultaneously BE those thought patterns. The ego (thoughts and emotions), however, acts as a substitute "self" (delusion) which lives in the past or for the future (never the present), and identifies itself with thoughts and time (past and future). As such, it can never be happy or at peace with itself or with others. This is why Buddhists attempt to get beyond the mind in meditation: because the ego is trapped by time (illusion), while the present is "where real life unfolds." Becoming more aware of the present therefore dissolves the past and future. (Hence, "the power of now.") It is a simple concept. . .dissolve the illusion of time, and fear and regret then serve no purpose. The ego is dethroned, and the true self revealed. Of course the ego resists the present at all cost because it cannot live in the present, and instead feeds on controlling and "owning" what can never be owned (things, people, the future). So people who tailgate you, or who are angry about having to wait in line, or who are obsessed with celebrities on TV...these people are dominated by the ego, which cannot see the present except as a means to get to the future. This is also why the ego is violent, jealous, insecure, and wants to dominate other people (because it doesn't see them as real people, but only as tools, a means to an end.) One amazing thing Tolle points out in The Power of Now (about people not being able to forgive someone who did them wrong) is that it would be easier to do so if they realized that hurtful actions came from blindness: "You wish they'd acted differently, but how could they? They didn't see you. They didn't see themselves. They were not even there." (Meaning they were totally identified with their minds, and therefore had no choice but to do what they did. Only with conscious awareness is free will and choice an option.) This is similar to the blindness of the military people in the movie Avatar. They called the aliens "roaches" at one point, which made it easy to "light them up" with incendiary weapons. The ego labels everything, sees nothing but its own survival, and is all about control, domination, winning, owning. But what does it mean, in the end? Nothing. It's a delusion.
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