Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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[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."]

So, and that's fine if you say that after its happened, as long as you don't make some personal thing out of that and think, "I have failed.  I was in the grip of the pain-body and I couldn't do it.  I couldn't see it.  It's useless.  I might even give up.  You see..." This little inner dialogue.  Do you have that sometimes, a little voice that talks to you, as you?  [The voice says (implied)], "You can't do it.  Years of meditation and now you've been on retreat and you still can't do it.  You're no good."  So, you personalize that. 

Scott Kiloby

  

July 24th

Uncompromising expressions of non-duality?

Some non-duality teachings claim to be "uncompromising non-dual expressions" in some attempt to set themselves apart from the apparent "compromising non-dual expressions." The mind just likes to pick a dualistic position.  "Uncompromising" exists only in relation to "compromising."  Even the idea, "Oneness," exists only in relation to the idea of "twoness" or the idea of "many."  As soon as thought arises, it takes a dualistic position in relation to some other position.  Positions exist only in relation or opposition to one another.

The One is uncompromisingly expressing itself as everything from a bird flying through the air, to a toilet flushing, to a preacher preaching the Bible, to an "uncompromising non-dual expression," to a "compromising non-dual expression."

This does not mean that all ideas are equal, which would - itself - be an idea claiming to be truer than other ideas.  It is only to point out that the dream self will attach to anything to maintain separateness including the idea that it "gets" non-duality and that the others "don't get it."  Every single thing you see, touch, taste, hear, smell, do, and feel is an uncompromising expression of the One.

Only the illusory separate self attempting to set itself apart would be interested in convincing others that its particular expression of"Oneness" is more important than the bird, toilet, preacher, or some other teaching.  When the energy of convincing falls away, there is only clarity, peace, and love.

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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Only love is real, and therefore by embracing the responsibility to actively channel unconditional love into our own heart are we able to move beyond these illusions. This is the only real assistance available to us: The love we give ourselves no matter what.    

Chapter 83

The True Guru

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Q:  One more question.  You said that before I was born I was one with the pure being of reality; if so, who decided that I should be born?

M:  In reality you were never born and never shall die. But now you imagine that you are, or have a body and you ask what has brought about this state.  Within the limits of illusion the answer is: desire born from memory attracts you to a body and makes you think as one with it.  But this is true only from the relative point of view.  In fact, there is no body, nor a world to contain it; there is only a mental condition, a dream-like state, easy to dispel by questioning its reality.