Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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Form identity, again it always looks for new things to identify with.   

And you acquire something new.   

There's a new form you identify with.   

Another rebirth.   

The self has  been reborn again into another form.    

And it looks out for another one, bigger  even, so the what happens here at the end of rebirth for the compulsion for the birth of form.   

And awareness is the opposite of birth, that's why I sometimes call it death here.    

Awareness steps out of identification with form and it is a blissful thing and joyous enormous thing to realize, awareness, pure awareness in itself.

September

Time is in the mind.  Space is in the mind.  The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking.  In reality all is here and now and all is one.  Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

September 2nd

Be present?

In enlightenment teachings, you may hear the phrase, "be present."  But if you look around, you are the present moment.  You are not separate from it.  You are life itself.  The only thing obscuring this realization is mental and emotional activity that continuously tries to move away from this moment into a dream of past, future, and resistance to now.  The notion that you are separate from life is a creation of thought.

The personal will who tries to 'be present' and bring about a personal awakening is the dream.  Instead of doing anything, including trying to be present, gently notice what is already being done.  A dream of self is already being told.  Thought is replaying the past, searching into future, and resisting what is in this moment, all for the benefit of a "me."  That mind movement is a dream of control.  It is a dream of personal will.  Suffering and searching arise when you buy into the illusion of control and personal will.

When the personal will is seen to be a dream of thought, it dies on its own.  That is true spiritual awakening.  You realize there is nothing to seek.  Paradise is already here, now.  It has always been right here, right now under the dream that there was a "you" who was somehow separate from it and who needed to do something to find it.

Michael Brown

From PART V: 2. 

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Our facilitator also knows these presences must, like us, eat to stay alive, and that the nutrition feeding and strengthening them while they reside within our energy field is the emotional energy manufactured through our outer dramatizations of fear, anger, and grief. Our negative emotional charge, and our relationship with it, is therefore a banquet table, an array of delicious delights, serving to please the appetite of any possessive parasitic presence in our energy field. For this reason, an authentic facilitator does not entertain drama. The crux of their task is to cut this food source by teaching us how to neutralize our negative emotional charge.  

Chapter 85

'I am': The Foundation of all Experience

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Q: I understood that the experience of the real follows seeing the false as false.

M: There is no such thing as the experience of the real. The real is beyond experience. All experience is in the mind. You know the real by being real.