Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

  [And in that moment emotional energy of old pain wakes up and links up with that thought .  (laughter)]

And the moment the connection is established between the weaving of thoughts in your head and old emotional pain then its much more difficult to get out of the thought because it won't remain this one thought immediately because of the emotional energy that has flown into that thought. 

Scott Kiloby

 

June 6th

Delaying the simple recognition of presence

It is easy to turn non-duality into a philosophy or spiritual path leading to some future attainment.  The mind gets preoccupied in the drive to understand non-duality conceptually or to have a powerful spiritual experience or shift.  Turning the realization to which these words are pointing into a philosophy or spiritual path is an act of mental reductionism.  These words are pointing to simple presence, which is available only now.  This presence is not a thought or a goal in time.  Thoughts and goals arise from presence.

Although the recognition that presence is what you are may happen gradually, the only point of entry - so to speak - is this moment.

The recognition is apparently delayed by trying to figure out non-duality through thought and by seeking some future attainment of it.  The recognition is only available when focus turns away from trying to mentally grasp spiritual awakening and chase future attainment, and towards the simple presence that is aware of what is arising right now.

In seeing what is arising now, it appears that identification with spiritual ideas and goals delays or obscures presence.  This presence is immediately available as the very life that you are before you try to grasp what that means conceptually or reach towards some future experience.  In reality, that presence cannot be truly delayed or obscured by anything because it is appearing as everything, including as every thought and goal.

Michael Brown

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

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To support this intent, we introduce a powerful perceptual tool called The Emotional Cleansing Process. This perceptual tool teaches us how to use our attention and intention to extract ourselves from time-based reactive behavior. By learning to wield The Emotional Cleansing Process over a period of six sessions, we are also accomplishing a 180 degree reversal of the habitual outward flow of our awareness. This reversal enables us to open up an energetic pathway back into ourselves. This may sound complicated, but it unfolds naturally and for the most part occurs without us realizing it.

Health: It's All About Consciousness

Ivan

The Medicine of Meditation

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Live your life in this relaxed way all the time. When you're out walking, walk in a relaxed fashion. Walk with ease instead of hurrying. Be reminded that you have an eternity to live. When you eat, relax and eat slowly, chewing your food well, being fully aware of the act of eating. When you speak, do so slowly and distinctly instead of in a rushed manner. We're so used to doing things automatically, out of habit, always in a rush. It's time to change these patterns and allow a new quality of consciousness to grow inside us.

When we're doing, we have a feeling of being in control, being right. When we stop doing, we feel empty and lonely. To fill the gap and thereby avoid pain, we start doing again. All our energy is expended in a

Thought

n effort to keep us occupied. From the time we get up to the time we go to bed, we live in an aggressive manner, complaining, arguing, making demands of both ourselves and others. Is it any wonder so many of us are exhausted and depressed? Aggressive energy may give us an illusion we're doing something about our problems, but eventually our whole being ends up struggling.

Chapter 81

Root Cause of Fear

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Q:  What exactly do you want me to do?

M:  Give your heart and mind to brooding over the 'I am,' what is it, how is it, what is it's source, its life, its meaning.  It is very much like digging a well.  You reject all that is not water, till you reach the life-giving spring.

Eckhart Tolle:  "And the moment the connection is established between the weaving of thoughts in your head and old emotional pain then its much more difficult to get out of the thought because it won't remain this one thought immediately because of the emotional energy that has flown into that thought.   

Jordan:  This is what EMDR helps with, resolving the connection between thoughts and emotional pain.  It desensitizes the pain and helps thinking become more mature.   

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Rupert Spira:  "When one of these perceptions is present the other is not. If they are both present, they are one perception, one experience."

Jordan:  For some reason, this is really important or vital  to understand.    

I think part of what it is saying is that any time we have the idea that we are feeling two separate sensations, like seeing a mountain and feeling the cool air, then that is thought separating the one into two.   And, of course, the tendency is to go with the thought and not the direct experience.   

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