Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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

Nobody knows, in statistics they don't mention that.  (much laughter).   "Number of pain-bodies...number of accidents caused by pain bodies this year..."  

Scott Kiloby

     

July 9th

Financial debt

If you are in financial debt, thought tends to repeat the story of how much you are in debt (past) and whether you are ever going to get out of debt (future).  It's a version of the thought-based, time-bound "me."

Practical planning, going to work, and seeking professional financial assistance are all practical steps that can be taken.  But the majority of thoughts about debt are unnecessary and self-centered.

You cannot stop these stories by some act of will.  That act of will would also be the "me."  There can only be a seeing.  See the constant referencing of past in terms of how much debt you have.  See the constant worrying about future in terms of whether you will be able to pay off the debt.  You are seeing that the debt story is a subtle, self-centered victim identity.  In the story of debt, it is all about "me."  "Poor me!"

What is seeing is those moments is awareness.  That is your true nature.   Awareness functions intelligently on its own.  It doesn't act from within a story.  It is naturally at rest and at ease with what is.  It knows that you have exactly the amount of money and debt that you are suppose to have right now.  Then it goes to work and pays bills.  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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We cannot be alone, separated, or lost; we only think it to be so. This is the power and potential destructiveness of the focus of our thoughts and the parasitic energies we entertain in our present life experiences when we misuse drugs. Our perception of being alone is caused by an externalization of our attention and a lack of inner awareness. We must cultivate this inner awareness because it is not possible for anyone else to accomplish this for us. But the question is: Do we care? Here is a barometer for us to measure our intent by:  

In the opening chapter called RECALIBRATING OUR INTENTION, we spoke about our C.A.S.T., our Compassionate Attention Support Team. We also spoke about mirror-work and how to talk to ourselves and give ourselves the attention we are fishing for from the outside world. If we are reading this book and are in the midst of an addictive experience, the revealing question is: Have we taken any steps to have an honest conversation with ourselves in the mirror yet? If not, our intention to overcome our predicament is remains inauthentic. We are still fooling ourselves. Not taking the simple and practical advice given to us in the beginning of this book is evidence we are still faking it; we are waiting for someone to come along and fix us. We are not making the best of what we are given.

Our actions always reveal the authentic resonance of our intent.

Chapter 83

The True Guru

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Q:  You said that reality is beyond the knowledge and the teaching of the real.  Is not the knowledge of reality the supreme itself and teaching the proof of its attainment?

M:  The knowledge of the real, or the self, is a state of mind.  Teaching another is a movement in duality.  They concern the mind only; sattva is a Guna all the same.