Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

[That's how it is for humans.]   

What is easy, looks hard.  What is hard, looks the easy way.   (Chuckles)  So that's the shift from the 'yes' to the 'no', it's always this surrender.    

Scott Kiloby

 

June 4th

Simple presence

Simple presence is the total allowing of what is already happening.  As you get ready for work or to go wherever you are going this morning, notice what is happening totally beyond your control.  Thoughts are appearing.  Emotions are happening.  Perhaps there is tiredness or grumpiness, but it's just happening involuntarily.  You aren't choosing any of these things.

As you are getting ready, notice that your arm involuntarily and spontaneously moves towards the closet to find clothes to wear.  You don't have to give the command, "Arm!  Move to the closet."  The moving of the arm just happens.  Notice that, even if there was a thought prior to moving the arm such as, "I need to find something to wear," that thought arose spontaneously and involuntarily also.  It came out of nowhere.

Life is happening completely on its own.  The mental voice that arises to resist, manipulate, and change what is happening is what creates the suffering and seeking.  It creates the illusion that you have control over what is happening.  In seeing that even the voice that arises to resist, manipulate, and change happens beyond your control, there can be a natural resting into what is.  That is simple presence.  No one brings it about.  It happens completely on its own through noticing that life is happening to you.  You are not bringing it about.  In that seeing, the suffering and seeking energy is released.

Michael Brown

30. Why do we only begin the water sessions in Session Seven?

The Presence Process was born out of an intention to uncover a gentle, integrative approach to make causal adjustments to our emotional body. To accommodate gentleness into the frequency of the experience, we first carefully open up an energetic pathway into the emotional body before we re-enter it to initiate adjustments. In this way the experience is not traumatic. 

Health: It's All About Consciousness

Ivan

The Medicine of Meditation

(Continuation...)  

Breathing has deep roots in our being. By changing the way we breathe, we can change so many other things about our life. For example, anger, pain, happiness, excitement - of our different emotions carry their own particular signature of breathing. When we're relaxed in meditation, we breathe harmoniously with the whole. We breathe slowly, rhythmically, evenly.

Relaxation is the ultimate experience.

If we're relaxed, we'll become aware of the one

Thought

who is experiencing the relaxation. Total relaxation is total realization. Relaxation isn't a state of mind but

a process of letting go of

attachments, investments, illusions, and projections. It's awareness that we aren't our tension. When we're aware, we don't need to invite relaxation - it comes of its own accord.

Chapter 81

Root Cause of Fear

(Continuation...)

Q:  In meditation, who meditates, the person or the witness?

M:  Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the highest states of consciousness and finally go beyond it.  The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever-subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind.  In a way it is like having death under control.  One begins with the lowest levels: social circumstances, customs and habits; physical surroundings, the posture, the breathing of the body; the senses, their sensations and perceptions; the mind, it's thoughts and feelings; until the entire mechanism of personality is grasped and firmly held.  The final stage of meditation is reached when the sense of identity goes beyond 'I-am-so-and-so,' beyond 'so-I-am,' beyond 'I-am-the-witness-only,' beyond 'there-is,' beyond all ideas into the impersonally personal pure being.  But you must be energetic when you take to meditation.  It is definitely not a part time occupation.  Limit your interests and activities to what is needed for you and your dependents' barest needs.  Save all your energies and time for breaking down the wall your mind has built around you.  Believe me, you will not regret it.