Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

You don't want to be free and you're completely identified with that vicious circle of emotional pain and thought.   

In other words, you become a very unhappy entity.....on the planet.   

With great heaviness and great emanation of unhappiness. 

Scott Kiloby

     

June 25th

The cycle of suffering

You are doing the laundry and a story of yesterday's argument with your spouse arises along with anger about what he said.  In the unconscious state, thought grabs a hold of that story and does not let go.  You analyze and rehash the details of the conflict with your spouse and formulate a rebuttal that you intend to bring up when the argument continues with your spouse.

Before you know it, this story has a hold of you.  You spend half the day thinking about how you are right and he is wrong.  You feel resentment towards him as you replay the story.  You are in the cycle of suffering.

Throughout the day, various temporary thoughts and emotions, such as the story of the argument with your spouse, arise and fall.  Suffering happens only because consciousness gets stuck on some temporary thought or emotion that arises.  The me does not want to let go.  It wants to be right - feel vindicated.  The goal of the me illusion is to keep the sense of separation and self-centeredness alive.

Notice the temporary thoughts and emotions that arise throughout the day and the 'larger' inward space in which they arise and fall.  When you find yourself holding onto a story, simply notice it.  Attention returns to the inward space.  You step out of the illusion of me and into the simple truth.  The truth is that laundry is being done.  It's that simple.

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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The same fear is now being used as a tool to push our attention away from the state of being making it possible for us to assist ourselves; present moment awareness. It is now being used to drive us mentally into places appearing real now, but which are illusionary. This is the disadvantage of entering emotional body awareness artificially, through drug use, before we acquire the resonance of personal responsibility, discernment, and containment; while in this artificially induced state we believe what we see, hear, and feel during these experiences to be real. Our current fearful experience is undoubtedly connected to our past lives, but our authentic access to it is to be found in and through this life experience.

Health: It's All About Consciousness

Ivan

Appendix II

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As changes are made in our physical body, they are registered in our DNA, which is found in every cell of our body. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a crystalline structure receiver, transmitter, and amplifier of frequencies of "light." It carries the codes of our physical characteristics and contains a hundred trillion times more information than our most sophisticated storage devices.

Our DNA is responsible for the construction of our body. It also performs the functions of data storage and communication. Scientists have decoded only about three per cent of the mapped huma

Thought

n genome. All life forms - everything from humans to animals and plants - share the same codes. In other words, the basic instructions for life are encoded with the same DNA language. Because DNA code follows the same basic rules of syntax, semantics, and grammar as all human languages, there's no need to decode our DNA. Instead, we can simply use consciousness to influence and change our DNA.

Chapter 82

Absolute Perfection is Here and Now.

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Q:  What is the change of consciousness at the moment of death?

M:  What change do you expect?  When the film projector ends, all remains the same as when it started. The state you were before you were born was also the state after death, if you remember.

Q:  I remember nothing.

M:  Because you never tried.  It is only a question of tuning in the mind.  It requires training, of course.