Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

[And once you see that, it's not surprising how mad human history is, how so much senseless nonsense, violence.]

So, it's important to believe the interpretations you believe in and then occasionally, when the pain body awakens, those mind structures become empowered, energized even more.  

The sense-of-self, the strong very heavy sense of 'Me', is derived from the emotion that is coupled with the thought. 

And then the vicious cycle is established between your pain body and your thought processes. 

Scott Kiloby

     

June 20th

Identification with thought

Thought is not bad.  It is a natural and beautiful expression of awareness.  Suffering and searching occur when there is identification with thought.  This identification creates the sense of a separate self.

The separate self is nothing more than energy within the body and mind that focuses on and contracts around the thoughts that arise.  The result is repetitive, unnecessary thinking, most of which revolves around a story of "me."  This story consists of essentially three thought realms:  the past, the future, and resistance to now.  The sense of separation is kept alive by continuously identifying with thoughts within these three realms.

The separate self is a story about how the past is unsatisfactory.  The past is "me."  The sense of separation is further fueled through resistance to what is happening now and through seeking some future moment when life will be better.

Spiritual awakening is not found in the future.  It is a present seeing that the story of the time-bound, thought based me is not real.  That seeing can only take place right now because time itself is part of the story.  In this present realization, the energy behind the me story releases.  The mind quiets on its own.  Peace and freedom are realized to be natural attributes of presence.  Thoughts still arise but they are no longer identified with.

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?

(Continuation...)

There is therefore no point in attempting to access our past lives to resolve the uncomfortable experiences we are encounter NOW. The emotional resonance crouching behind any uncomfortable experience we carry now is stored in our emotional body; the causal point at which authentic resolution is to be achieved. In the present moment our past lives are irrelevant. Many of us may of course disagree, but this is because we are still operating from a time-based paradigm, instead of a perspective born of present moment awareness.

Health: It's All About Consciousness

Ivan

Appendix II

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A hologram possesses an astonishing capacity for information storage. This is regulated simply by changing the angle at which light from a laser strikes a piece of photographic film. Likewise, as humans we have the capacity to retrieve all the information generated since the birth of the universe. Because we are each manifestations of the infinite universe, we can do this simply

Thought

by changing the angle from which we perceive and experience ourselves.

As the East has long upheld, the material world is maya, which means an "illusion." Although we

may imagine ourselves as just physical beings having experiences in a physical world, this is all part of the illusion. 

Chapter 82

Absolute Perfection is Here and Now.

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Q:  Have you no problems?

M:  I do have problems, I told you already.  To be, to exist with a name and form is painful, yet I love it.

Q:  But you love everything!

M:  In existence everything is contained.  My very nature is to love; even the painful is lovable.