Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

[And you are completely 'identified' with feeling bad about the bad weather.   

And complaining.]

So, you have an added force to what was already bad enough, you cut yourself off and now your whole identity is reactive.   

And you take that to be the truth - the 'bad weather' - and then you have a personalized 'reactive' relationship to the bad weather.   

The so-called 'bad weather.'

Scott Kiloby

   

June 18th

Surrender

Surrender is one of the hallmarks of non-dual realization (i.e., enlightenment).  At first glance, when you hear about the spiritual principle of "surrender," it may sound as if you need to do or become something or someone in order to be more surrendered.  No.  Surrender is an attribute of your natural state of presence.

The separate self contraction cannot become surrendered because the contraction is resistance to what is.  If there is nothing you can do to gain surrender or be more surrendered, why even discuss surrender?  Surrender is what is already here in this moment under all your efforts to obtain something from others, from life, and from the spiritual search.  It is what is here in the absence of resistance to what is.

In order for surrender to be realized as an attribute of presence, notice the mental and emotional seeking and resistance that appears to obscure presence.  Instead of doing something, notice what is already being done.   

Notice the ways in which thought and emotion are resisting what is and seeking something from others, from life, and from the spiritual search.  In allowing these movements to meet the light of awareness, there is no more attachment to the movements.  What is left is the natural rest of surrender.  In that natural resting, it is realized that presence was never really obscured.  There was merely a misperception happening.  You falsely believed that you were the separate self contraction.

Michael Brown

31. I am a heroine user attempting to resolve the cause of my addiction. Since starting the Process I have repeated nightmares about similar past life experiences. I am struggling with the fear these nightmares generate. THE PRESENCE PROCESS focuses on healing the child within us, but what about working with our past life traumas? What if the cause of addiction is not in this life?

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Health: It's All About Consciousness

Ivan

Appendix II

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The holograph uses laser-coherent light of the same wavelength to produce three-dimensional images in space. Unlike a linear perspective, a holographic perspective is a complete multidimensional frame of reference. A three-dimensional image can be cut into many pieces, yet each piece remains capable of reproducing an image of the whole. Similarly, changing a single component of the holograph simultaneously changes every other component.

Thought

Our universe is a projection from a level of reality beyond the horizons of our comprehension. Essence expresses itself as a hologram, a projection of no-thingness in which everything originates. The holographic universe is a single consciousness with an infinite number of simultaneously coexisting ways to experience it."

Chapter 82

Absolute Perfection is Here and Now.

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Q:  I can see the picture, but who is the painter?  Who is responsible for this terrible and yet adorable experience?

M:  The painter is in the picture.  You separate the painter from the picture and look for him.  Don't separate and don't put false questions.  Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible.  The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency, 'Somebody must have done it, somebody is responsible.'  Society as it is now, with its framework of laws and customs, is based on the idea of a separate and responsible personality, but this is not the only form a society can take.  There may be other forms, where the sense of separation is weak and responsibility diffused.

Scott Kiloby:  "Notice the ways in which thought and emotion are resisting what is and seeking something from others, from life, and from the spiritual search."

Jordan:  One way to notice thought and emotions is by feeling the body.  Not just during meditation, but all the time.   

If a thought thinks resistance, then an emotion will feel and the body will have a feeling or sensation.  Thought has a hard time detecting itself as being the one who is creating the resistance.  Emotions tend to distort and intensify thought making it even harder for thought to make self-corrections.  So, noticing feelings or sensations in the body is more effective because they are prior to the thought, and they are prior to the emotions.  And thought may not feel threatened by body sensations because it doesn't understand in that moment that they are connected.  

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Michael Brown:  "When we come into this life to resolve the issue of sexual abuse, we are exposed on some level to the experience of sexual abuse before we turn seven. It may be an event happening to us, or one we perceive happening between others in our midst. By the time we turn 14 this issue is translated into a mental belief system about our sexuality. By the time we turn 21 it is an issue dominating our physical experiences around sexuality and intimate relationships. This dysfunctional energy keeps resurfacing and repeating in our life experience as a pattern, in some form or another, until we experience enough awareness to bring consciousness to it, to take responsibility for it by integrating it."

Jordan:  Worth repeating.   

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