Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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So, at first the seeing may not happen in the middle of it, it may happen after the pain-body has come and gone.  

Of course, it's never gone for that long.   

It's dormant while it digests the food.   

And then after awhile, a few days, a week, a few weeks if you're lucky, the food is digested and then it goes, "I'm hungry again."

Scott Kiloby

  

July 23rd

When you see a "tree," notice that you are interacting only with thought.  Someone taught you the word "tree."  It is not true that you are looking at a tree.  The object could have been called a "splunk" just the same.  The word is not that which it describes.

When you label a situation as good or bad or believe that a person should or should not be doing something, this is also just thought.  There is nothing wrong with thinking.  The ignorance arises only when you believe that your thoughts are totally true.  Ignorance is failing to see the projector of mind that is continuously placing a conceptual overlay upon reality in an attempt to strengthen a fictitious central "me."  Ignorance here is not meant to be derogatory.  To ignore here means to "not see."

In seeing the projector of me projecting its movie onto the world, the possibility of waking from that movie arises.  In this awakening, it is realized that the world is a reflection of mind.  Spiritual realization does not come by merely changing the characters and content of the movie that is being projected.  The movie is an illusion.  Realization is available only through seeing the movie as an object on the screen of awareness.  Since it is an object in awareness, it is not what you are.  When the movie of self is seen to be an illusion, what you really are reveals itself.

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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It is necessary to journey all the way through this fear to the other side of it to realize the extent of the shadowy veil we throw over our own life experience. The first step is being prepared to accept we are 100% responsible for our present predicament as it is right now. We did this to ourselves. We invited this in. No one is to blame. By attempting to pin the cause of our present predicament on a past life we are seeking to side-step personal responsibility, and to instead fuel the hellish flames of victim or victor mentality. While backing away from our fear in this manner, by projecting it into some distant scenario, or onto some distant devil, imaginary or not, we give our power away.  

Chapter 83

The True Guru

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Q:  So, there is no need to worship, to pray, to practice Yoga?

M:  A little daily sweeping, washing and bathing can do no harm.  Self-awareness tells you at every step what needs be done.  When all is done, the mind remains quiet.

Now you are in the waking state. A person with a name and shape, joys and sorrows.  The person was not there before you were born, nor will be there after you die.  Instead of struggling with the person to make it become what it is not, why not go beyond the waking state and leave the personal life altogether?  It does not mean the extinction of the person; it means only seeing that person in the right perspective.