Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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[Many traffic accidents are caused by driving pain-bodies because a driving pain-body wants the accident.]

That's the amazing thing.  It doesn't 'know' that.  If you say, "You want an accident."  It says, "You're mad!  I don't want an accident."   But the driving pain-body unconsciously seeks the experience, the painful experience of the accident. 

And so, sooner or later he will come into proximity of another driving pain-body.  And both want the accident. 

Scott Kiloby

     

July 8th

Roles

When you identify with a role, you cannot see your own identification.  You are that role.  Perhaps you are lost in your role as a doctor, secretary, or salesman.  Or perhaps you are lost in some other role such as recovering addict, cancer survivor, victim, co-dependent, or even brother or parent.

Roles are false, egoic identities.  When you are lost in a role, the spirit is not free to react naturally and spontaneously to life.  You are lost in a past image of yourself.  You act and react within the pattern of that past image.  You tend to treat others according to their roles and how they relate to your role.  If you are a doctor, you see only patients.  If you are a salesman, you see only customers.  If you are a mother, you see only children.  Others people simply reflect back to you your particular role, which strengthens the role.  There is no true relationship when images are relating to images.

In present moment awareness, there is freedom from all roles, identities, images, and self-concepts.You are no longer living life through rigid thought patterns of the past.You are free to respond to life intelligently, naturally, and spontaneously.When you notice each role you are playing in the moment you play it, you are present.You are transcending that role.This allows others the freedom to no longer react from their roles.True relationship is then possible.

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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Our preoccupation with past lives is a manifestation of our unconscious resistance to paying attention to the experience we are in now. It is a distraction. A preoccupation with our past lives is like attending a peace rally to stop a war happening in another country when we cannot sit in peace around the dinner table with our own family. It is a distraction from what is happening NOW. It is also an unconscious attempt to blame something in the distant past for our present predicament, instead of containing the courage to take full responsibility for our present circumstances. Unfortunately, this distraction is encouraged by whatever parasites we host as a consequence of artificially opening our energy systems through addictive behavior. These presences distract us as long as we buy into the blame game. Until we perceive their ploy through the content of our reactive and self-destructive behavior patterns, they continue to project images into our awareness to seduce, confuse, and distract us, just as we are projecting self-serving images into the awareness of those around us.

Chapter 83

The True Guru

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Q:  How can I make out whom to follow and whom to mistrust?

M:  Mistrust all, until you are convinced.  The true Guru will never humiliate you, nor will he estrange you from yourself.  He will constantly bring you back to the fact of your inherent perfection and encourage you to seek within.  He knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of reminding you.  But the self-appointed Guru is more concerned with himself than with his disciples.