Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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

And you're completely identified with that special circle of pain and thought.  In other words, you become a very unhappy entity on the planet.  Great heaviness in a nation of great unhappiness. 

Scott Kiloby

     

June 21st

Beyond belief

The personal story of me is in the business of seeking something from life.  Usually it is seeking something to enhance the story.  This is often on such an unconscious level that it is simply missed.

At some point along the way, the story may turn to spiritual belief.  It may seek enhancement of its personal story by believing this or that doctrine or philosophy or following this or that path.

Enlightenment is not about seeking enhancement of the personal story of "me."  It is about realizing that the entire story is an illusion.  It is the realization that the endeavor to gain a "more spiritual self" through belief just keeps self-centeredness in place.  A belief is just more of the me story.  Belief welcomes conflict as the me insists that its belief is right and that the others are wrong.

What is being pointed to with the word "enlightenment" is beyond belief.  It cannot be known through thought.  Therefore, no belief will reveal it.  It is the natural wakefulness of simple presence.  In that wakefulness, unconditional love and liberation are realized.  Stated another way, spirit wakes up to itself.  This spirit is what is being sought in the spiritual search.  It cannot be found in an idea.  Ideas merely point to it.  They are abstractions.  Spirit must be directly recognized as the very life you are.  Once it is realized, there is no need for belief.

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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Seeking to move our awareness into another lifetime to resolve what is happening right now is a perspective arising from living in a time-based paradigm.

Health: It's All About Consciousness

Ivan

Appendix II

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In reality, there are an infinite number of aspects of the One Self, infinitely interconnected and vibrating toward balance and harmony. We are the receptors of an unlimited spectrum of vibrations from the divine. What we extract for our use in expressing our creativity is but one channel of the hologram we experience as the infinite universe.

Every situation, every moment in time and space - including all objects, places, and people - is

Thought

a reflection of the essence of each of us. In other words, reality is our mirror, which means that what we put out, we get back. The mirror doesn't have a world of its own or a mind of its own. It doesn't contain anything separate from ourselves with which we can compare ourselves. Indeed, there's nothing in the mirror. It's simply the reflection of our own essential being.

Chapter 82

Absolute Perfection is Here and Now.

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Q:  It does not make it less painful.  Why not remain in the unlimited?

M:  It is in the instinct of exploration, the love of he unknown, that brings me into existence.  It is the nature of becoming to seek peace in being.  This alteration of being and becoming is inevitable; but my home is beyond.