the easiest way is to just watch your thoughts. They are not you. You be the sky and let your thoughts be the clouds floating by. Don't be disturbed by them. If you catch yourself thinking of something else, don't get angry. Just go back to watching them without any sort of judgement. By and by there will be gaps where no thoughts come and these gaps will become longer and longer. Eventually you will be able to control if you want to think or not.
This is so encouraging! Thank you! The only thing like it I’ve seen is in the ancient Greek Orthodox Christian tradition of Hesychasm or Hesychia, stillness.
I mean what you said, Willie, is so encouraging. Of course Eckhart is amazing. But I was addressing in my comment here the beautiful, blessed truth you added.
Last night I woke at 4am, brain racing. I lay staring at the ceiling and started to concentrate on my breathing and took my awareness into my hands. Immediately my mind said you can’t do this, it won’t work! I remembered your words and started laughing at myself and said, but I am. Bought myself back into my body and fell asleep smiling. Now that is a first for me! Thank you so much for your simple, clear instruction on being present when you need it most. 🙏🌟🌻
Today a few hrs ago, I was feeling terrible As a senior now 80yrs, realizing my limitations I am grateful to have this meditation by Eckhart. Amen 🙏 Mary Canada 🍁
_"a great depth to that seeming nothingness"_ To me, that sensation (feeling, realization, presence) is "this is me." When you observe thinking; develop the observer; individuate from the thinker, it's like you identify a part of you like you identify the thinker. A concept of who you are, but there's "I" above it all who observes. After perhaps years of practicing mindfulness, observing, eventually there is a realization "this is me!" It's not just something being observed. It's more purely me and exists without observation. That can be jarring, like a jail door slamming shut. Beholding me not thinking (as the observer) is a lot like beholding thoughts as not me. Both ways, it's just a "thing" I'm observing. But, with practice (individuating the observer from the thinker, what exists without thought), there's realization at some point: "this is me." Can I behold myself? Can a lightbulb illuminate the electricity that powers it? It's pure being without observing. The first time I hat that experience, I was "make it stop! make it stop!" It felt like I'd lost myself (only because I was so habituated to my self being the doer, the thinker, the thoughts.).
I was at work the first time I stumbled into one of his videos and his gaze was so strong I locked in Immediate and had to shut it off cause I was at work🤭
So many little things as I wake, trying to tell me this is a bad day and I am in a bad mood, it's like I can collect them all up as the morning progresses,I am so grateful for the opportunity to see it as a lie.
Most people don't realize that they're ego is a phantom. It always tries to convince the mind that ( It ) is who we ultimately are, but it's not! I realized the negitive aspects of my own ego years ago once I reached my early twenties. I just sat down one day in despair then thought hard about why life wasn't working out for me and why I was suffering so much. I eventually realized it was my ego with all it's desires and wants. So I decided to quit thinking about my desires and wants. And thus I began silencing those thoughts everyday until they became no more. Therefore my ego slowly dissolved and then I was able to realize my natural state and my higher self. Hence, my life has been much better ever since and everyone can do this.✨
@@jonathanreader228Yes,🍄s can help and make you realize what you need to change within yourself. Though I don't recommend taking them all the time, because they will fry your brain. Yet it's alright once in a blue moon, or if you need to attain a higher state of consciousness.🙏✌️❤️
Surely the mind and the ego are the very same thing and are just different names for that which we are all aware of and is constantly communicating with us, but is not us or who we are, but something we all once mistook ourselves for and controlled by🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thought is the basis of consciousness. Without language you aren't conscious. I've been a meditator for nearly 50 yrs now. I have never once wanted to cease thinking. I am the AWARENESS that watches. Thoughts are simply part of the show.
1:38 Thinking is doing. When you stop thinking, that's letting go. You become aware of being. There is no duality, thinking vs. Being. It's only the language. When you stop thinking, you become aware of being. Being is always there, whether you think or not. No duality in being. Thanks Eckhart. 13 August 2023.💰🚈⚘👍🚣♂️🌱🎅😇💖🤠
SIR Since the thingking process is being attempted to be stopped by the thingking process, it cannot be halted. The process runs automatically, naturally, and according to the laws of nature. You could deceive yourself into thinking it's conceivable, but it isn't; it isn't possible. Trying to stop is really difficult no matter how hard you try. Like breathing or an impulse, it is comparable. Your thoughts are not your fault. You cannot incite an uprising against nature because nature is nature. It is true that when i write this response, I am considering how the thoughts in my head came to be expressed in words. YOU ARE A THIGKING BEING Because you are still alive, thinking is essential.
Yes, thank you, Eckhart! You have helped me experience what I read about long ago in the Greek Orthodox mystical Christian tradition of Hesychasm or Hesychia, stillness.
Thank You for being you Eckhart Tolle ❤ you are needed. Just wanted to share because sometimes people get popular and they work too much or are taken for granted. So thanks for your contribution to the earth and the people.
I have a client that I working with who is really struggling to find their identity, which is manifesting a lot of stress, confusion, isolation, and loneliness, to name a few. This is a powerful video that I can use to help orient them toward purpose and meaning-making; to love themselves as who they are instead of what they are. Vielen dank Herr Tolle!
First: Thank you. Second: I share because I think I am understanding and it makes me very happy. We are All Conciousness but we do not have the same thoughts, Consciousness is the Paper - thoughts are the colors we color our paper.... I can chose what color and the amount of coloring, or no colors at all... consciousness remains
Thank you. Your presence was so calming and right away I stopped thinking after journaling sure but I keep going even after journaling. Addicted to productivity. Thanks for the background noises. And your presence. Okay this too… is 😅
For me, awareness of my automatic associative thinking and personal fiction is a precursor to evaporating these thoughts that obscure ‘suchness’. Stubborn thoughts are given to the cosmic mind for resolution/dissolution. This reduces noise.
Amazing how these words managed to raise my vibration and my state of mind. During all my life I've been looking for a way to find myself and feel me free. Eckhart really has been teached me how to find all of it by your books and in your words. I am greatful forever.🙏🙌
The only time i feel deep peace and security is when i listen to Eckhart tolle. That stillness stays with me for a while but not for too long. It's so painful to be in this body in this self.
I was doing so well until I started thinking about a xmas soiree I'm organising. I think, clear your mind. Get in touch with your soul. Leave all earthly attachment behind. Then listen to this meditation.
So moving, so liberating... Being HERE wherever HERE is and diving into it is the very reason we have appeared in manifested CONSCIUSNESS. That is the only reason we're HERE. Remaining in claustrophobic indifference or claustrophobic aggression takes away all meaning from our precious PRESENCE. It is pure grace. it is pure grace to meet those who whisper to you to stay HERE. Immensely gratefuI 💓🙏✨🌠
Funny how TH-cam recommended me this exact video with the title “let go of thinking” at the very moment when I was pondering on wether I should continue doing my summer homework, especially after a long brain burn. Thank you, for confirmation! Sometimes we just need to learn to relax too and take a break.
Synchronicity[1] is very real. But, going overboard can be "ideas of reference."[2] (A diagnostic criteria for psychotic illness.). The buddha's "middle way" is a good path to follow. Accept synchronicity when it occurs. Don't go gaga with "signs." [1] Coincidence of events that appear meaningfully related but do not seem to be causally connected, taken by Jungian psychoanalytic theory to be evidence of a connection between the mind and material objects. [2] The phenomenon of an individual experiencing innocuous events or mere coincidences & believing they have strong personal significance.
Without the awakening of consciousness, the brain and mind are incomplete, that is why we do not feel the peace and happiness that is beyond all understanding.
Tell them to look between two words on a page but they can never see the words, only the black ink on the beginning of one and the end of the other. That really works!!!
I have OCD and a general anxiety disorder so my brain is always thinking and worrying about nonsense and stressing me out. So to be able to stop thinking is hard, but when I manage to it feels like my mind can finally relax. It feels so nice. It's very hard for me to get there though because my mind is always trying to cling to some intrusive thought.
I feel the same! Has GAD and am continously worrying about "all and nothing"...BUT I sometimes reach an inner peace , and that is wonderful!! Think training is the only way to be more in this state....All good luck to us both!!❤❤❤❤❤
@@mariagunnarsson1892 Hi to you and James, I have suffered because of my thoughts and just wanted to say things will get better 🙏🙏🙏🙏. One of the best things I've ever read is " they are not your thoughts, they are not even really about you", wise words indeed 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@Puuws we don't need to sort out our minds, our minds will sort themselves out just fine once we stop taking everything they tell us so seriously. There is actually nothing wrong with our minds and there is nothing wrong with us either, other than our relationship with our minds has become a little confused. Leave the mind alone to do it's own thing and the mind will leave us alone to do our own thing. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
As I watched this video I found myself thinking about what I was seeing, but I had no notion of the passing of time. At the end of the video I saw that it had been 10 minutes.
Thank you Eckhart 🙏🏼 i had a pretty bad day today but after watching this i now feel calm, relaxed, at peace and a lot more grounded and grateful.. being a busy single mum with so much responsibility on my shoulders, irs hard not to get lost in the thoughts (especially the negative ones) but everytime i listen to you it brings me back to a peaceful state of mind and back to the present... Thank you very much for the work you do 🙏🏼 xx
ask the conman to tell you how to stop thoughts and lay the mind down,this is the way of a buddah,there is no other way,ofcourse once you are taught the way of a buddah you wont listen to this fool any longer oops
@@midnightblue2893 Same here, I'm just at home chilling out playing my keyboard and then I'm gonna watch a movie. Sounds like you had a hectic weekend and are now enjoying your rest. Hope your not stressed out and doing okay.
@@stephenflood3463 Hi thanks for reaching out! sounds like you're having a relaxing day. I also tried sending you a message on your channel but didn't know where to message you there. Hope you are doing well too! 💜
Bonjour Mr eckart tolle je voulait juste vous remercier pour le bien que vous m'apporter la sagesse le lâché prise que vous Partager car vous êtes la première âmes qui a su attirer mon attention vos paroles livre vidéo sont mon remède depuis 4 ans seul vos paroles mes réconforte me fond ivres mais surtout me permettre de me sentir en vie merci d'être celui que j'attendais pour me comprendre me libére j'espère ne pas oublié vos enseignements un grand Merci Mr ives b,en in australie and non you from there really touch m'y ego tha ks
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SIR Since the thingking process is being attempted to be stopped by the thingking process, it cannot be halted. The process runs automatically, naturally, and according to the laws of nature. You could deceive yourself into thinking it's conceivable, but it isn't; it isn't possible. Trying to stop is really difficult no matter how hard you try. Like breathing or an impulse, it is comparable. Your thoughts are not your fault. You cannot incite an uprising against nature because nature is nature. It is true that when i write this response, I am considering how the thoughts in my head came to be expressed in words. YOU ARE A THIGKING BEING Because you are still alive, thinking is essential.
You're right that thinking is essential and not "bad." The problem is habitual unnecessary thinking, ruminating, incessant labeling, explaining, defining. Awakening is just developing (individuating) an observer of the thinker. The observer always exists, but is unrecognized because we drift into the chattering mind as an addiction, narrating our experience as if that makes the experience more real. Ultimately, the only thing that's real is this moment. Everything else is a story we tell ourselves about the past & future. There's nothing wrong from introspection, learning from past success & failure; planning reasonably for the future, changing what can be changed. But, all too often "thinking" is more confabulatory than that. It's like a movie. You know a movie is single still images. When they're shown to you fast enough, suddenly it looks believable. The mind has a proclivity to "believe" that way. It won't tell itself "c'mon, I know this isn't real. There's a cameraman just outside the frame. The woman won't be eaten by the shark." It's more like "I _want_ to believe. I _need_ to believe. I don't care about reality." Movies will add dramatic music to help the mind do what it does. Compulsive, unnecessary & egoic thought is our dramatic music. It makes our life/experience more believable. Awakening is individuating the observer (of all this) from the explainer (the narrator). You don't cease to exist. You just know the difference between the movie & being (without it). As Dada Gunamuktananda said: "We're all familiar with this saying by Descartes: 'I think, therefore I am.' But, when I stop thinking, I _really_ am." There's more to life than the story we tell ourselves.
@@markfuller I get what you're saying. As far as I can tell from your description, the mind simply behaves as what it is; it is simply the mind, period. It is incapable of seeing reality, is constrained, and is therefore not to be blamed. Just going about its business, but what do you know? The mind is quite extraordinary even though you described it in that way. The mind is a very exceptional tool, that much is true. The words used here are merely an expression of the mental act taking place in this discourse. Don't dispute the reality of it. All of my words are in my head; the mind is God OR A CREATOR. It's also yours. You informed me of the mind and its observer, but the observer is not the mind, right? I won't ask you how you know that People hold a variety of beliefs. Each belief has a beginning, but it works in the same way with the mind. You decry the mind as being unreliable and untrustworthy. You cannot dispute the reality that we are only two thoughts engaging here; as far as possible, preconceptions need to be eliminated. What I said is a fact. You are referring to awakening, which logically implies its opposite, which is slumber, since the truth exposes its antithesis, deception. I get what you're saying: The mind is an illusion, and all of its thoughts and ideas are false. You are not who you think you are. The observer is always new and fresh, blemish-free, and there despite everything changing and vanishing. This constant presence that you can't escape or deny means you're always carrying about is not something you thought up. Yes, I agree with everything you've said, and so do you. In fact, you can't tell me what you know without first coming to an understanding with it. This entire discernment process is all mental because, despite everything, there is always a core of knowledge that registers and records what you have experienced. Religious practices are all forms of mental art, including your own. Everything is a mental act of creativity. Your belief resembles an insurrection, revolution, or other form of rebellion against the mind, which is also a component of the mind's mental activity. The mind seeks self-extinction. A mind that hates itself. Hatred of one's own thoughts The mind is capable of conjuring up any form of reality, including mine and yours, even if they are seen from different angles. If the mind thinks the mind is restricted, it will appear to be limited; similarly, if the mind thinks a detached observer is watching the present moment, it will manifest as such. Don't underestimate its power. Don't try to hide the fact that everything you have told me is likewise a product of your mind since, after all, you are nothing more than your mind.
@@assessoroffice7212 _"Don't try to hide the fact that everything you have told me is likewise a product of your mind"_ I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be adversarial (hiding things deliberately). I agree with you that the mind is powerful. You said the observer isn't the mind. I think it is (or part of the mind, but more purely mind than mind filled with thought). We do know a lot about the mind. For example, 95% of the brain is subconscious from which the conscious experience _emerges_ from (into the 5%). I find that perspective interesting because that 5% conscious part is typically distracted half the time. So, we have 2.5% of the brain demanding that it is the start & end of its experience. (I get the mental image of a tiny ant shaking its fist in defiance at the sun.). This small part of the brain (which emerges from a murky, mostly-irrational mass of the brain) believes "I'm doing this." And then, Libet discovered that our choices/decisions occur 1/3 second before our puny conscious mind believes it decided. Dr. David Vago has studied this and found that our whole conscious experience occurs 1/2 second before it emerges. It's largely being done to us, and our conscious mind rationalizes whatever emerges as "reality." To me, that's a powerful example of how the real "control" we have is to observe our minds, exercise some space (additional delay) and veto what isn't necessary in this moment (the excessive thinking, explaining, ruminating, narrating). That's where we have free will. Not following whatever emerges as if it's real. It's not. Look up optical illusions. Our brain fills in things to make sense. It does that in many ways that aren't optical. :) Look for the tedx talk by Dr. David Vago (mindfulness in the topic). There's another tedx by Sam Chase about this. It adds to the sense of scale, and that we're better off developing the observer, not compulsive thinking.
@@markfuller Sir you are right, I only need to look about me to see how much of who I am today was shaped by my Mind-thoughts. It is a very smart, conscious self-diagnosing instrument that learned through difficulty and suffering. As what you have said, we identify the underlying cause of misery brought on by unchecked mental activity and develop a technique or practice to address the problem (Mindfulness ). The mind is really clever..... so Meaning Your mind is watching itself as it is. It is you, the mind, who is being observed. You are the mind as it observes itself. I think that is the right word to say. Everything or any action in which you consciously participate always has you Facilitating at its core. You agree to it at all times.. This includes all experiences that you have had. The ability to pay attention, focus or concentrate by choice (Freewill) allows the mind to move just like a camera's lens. You are the mind in action. You have the option of choosing to merely pay attention to the emptiness between your thoughts or to stop indulging any type of mental image or notion that you typically come up with by simply watching them without categorizing them. Despite all, they are only mental exercises carried out by the conscious mind. We can experience them, so it is true. We are the mind in action. If you claim that there is an aspect of reality that the mind cannot perceive, it is an assumption because we are unable to provide any evidence for it. I see us as nothing more than the Mind. Assumption cannot be used as an evidence.
@balas, that's a common response, "if thinking is bad, how will I get through life not thinking?" The problem is that we think (without realizing we're doing it) far more than is necessary. That consumption of the mind interferes with living life as it is (instead of a story we tell ourselves in the head), planning reasonably for the future, influencing what we can vs must-erbating in our mind. It's one thing to make plans to attend college, get certified in some occupation, know the bus schedule, prepare to catch the bus, stop for groceriess on the way home. That kind of stuff is typically 10% of the thinking we tend to do (must-erbating in our minds, how things must be, or aren't and should be, and we resent it, etc.). Sam Harris describes this unawakened sapien condition as being kidnapped by the worlds most boring peson, forced to have the same conversation over and over. Why? Because at some level it feels better than the present moment as it is. Our ego needs to feel in control, narrating our existence (expecting & resenting). If you're like most sapiens (wise, knowing, self-reflecting), 90% of your thoughts have nothing to do with paying the rent, feeding yourself. At least not overtly. It's usually filling a psychological hole. For some people, if they don't do that they can be unstable, not know who they are. _"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."_ - Blaise Pascal (Pensées ["Thoughts"], 1654)
Observe. You're usually thinking and identifying with that (the thoughts, the explanations (of what was, is, will be, should be, wasn't, etc). A constant story in the head that we're enmeshed with as if "this is me." There is a part of you that can observe this. Practice being the observer, acknowledging that you're thinking (what you're thinking) without judging, resisting, fighting. The observer is just the witness. By individuating yourself this way, you'll be less inclined to merge with thought (or, more naturally see that you're doing it, and step back from it.). If you've practiced habitual inner narration for years/decades, it takes time to practice something else (being the observer). The 1st video in my playlist is a guided mindfulness meditation on the present moment. That's the one that worked for me. IMO, Eckhart's meditations are more guided than meditative. That video is the minimum guidance (least words & thought). It's not mutually exclusive to Eckhart's. Just different, less pointings about what to look for.
What is Tolles weak links in his teaching? Missing out on trauma? Spiritual bypassing? Shadow work? Metaphysical understanding? Sexual healing not properly understood? Anything else?
I’ve spent years of my life from teenager to adult meditating and I’ve seen changes over the years thanks for the advice you’ve shared over the years 😊 @Eckharttolle 5:27
the easiest way is to just watch your thoughts. They are not you. You be the sky and let your thoughts be the clouds floating by. Don't be disturbed by them. If you catch yourself thinking of something else, don't get angry. Just go back to watching them without any sort of judgement. By and by there will be gaps where no thoughts come and these gaps will become longer and longer. Eventually you will be able to control if you want to think or not.
This is so encouraging! Thank you!
The only thing like it I’ve seen is in the ancient Greek Orthodox Christian tradition of Hesychasm or Hesychia, stillness.
I mean what you said, Willie, is so encouraging. Of course Eckhart is amazing. But I was addressing in my comment here the beautiful, blessed truth you added.
Amazing advice! I think the thing I'm stuck on is knowing how to ignore my thoughts. And seeing them as a separate part of you is the best way.
I like that very much. Thank you.
Last night I woke at 4am, brain racing. I lay staring at the ceiling and started to concentrate on my breathing and took my awareness into my hands. Immediately my mind said you can’t do this, it won’t work! I remembered your words and started laughing at myself and said, but I am. Bought myself back into my body and fell asleep smiling. Now that is a first for me! Thank you so much for your simple, clear instruction on being present when you need it most. 🙏🌟🌻
Beautiful! You're a natural! :D
Today a few hrs ago, I was feeling terrible
As a senior now 80yrs, realizing my limitations
I am grateful to have this meditation by Eckhart.
Amen 🙏
Mary Canada 🍁
Have a pleasant and present day, Mary. Warmly, C.
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Have a beautiful day, Mary! ❤
Eckhart, You are right. We always think the worst in life.
Wishing everyone a blessed week ❤
And you, too!😊💜
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Thank you. You have a blessed week too @pixxie__
You too! Thanks ❤
Merci ❤
“It might seem like nothing, but as you stay with it you begin to notice there is a great depth to that seeming nothingness.”
_"a great depth to that seeming nothingness"_ To me, that sensation (feeling, realization, presence) is "this is me." When you observe thinking; develop the observer; individuate from the thinker, it's like you identify a part of you like you identify the thinker. A concept of who you are, but there's "I" above it all who observes. After perhaps years of practicing mindfulness, observing, eventually there is a realization "this is me!" It's not just something being observed. It's more purely me and exists without observation.
That can be jarring, like a jail door slamming shut. Beholding me not thinking (as the observer) is a lot like beholding thoughts as not me. Both ways, it's just a "thing" I'm observing. But, with practice (individuating the observer from the thinker, what exists without thought), there's realization at some point: "this is me." Can I behold myself? Can a lightbulb illuminate the electricity that powers it? It's pure being without observing. The first time I hat that experience, I was "make it stop! make it stop!" It felt like I'd lost myself (only because I was so habituated to my self being the doer, the thinker, the thoughts.).
The presence transmitted through this video is incredible. What a gift to humanity he is.
I was at work the first time I stumbled into one of his videos and his gaze was so strong I locked in Immediate and had to shut it off cause I was at work🤭
My wife said that I let go of thinking years ago.
Not sure if that is a nice thought or not!
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& all these years u thot she was being snipeful
If I’m walking in the forest and my wife is not there to hear me, am I still wrong?? 😉
🇨🇦 Bringing your wife as a witness means you are not sure. Has she given up thinking as well? Welcome to the club of thoughtless morons! ❤❤❤❤
Thank you Eckhart for everything you bring to my life and all of humanity. 💙
The calmness that is instantly transmitted WOW - Within seconds I can feel my solar plexus relaxing and thoughts subsiding - Thank you so much
So many little things as I wake, trying to tell me this is a bad day and I am in a bad mood, it's like I can collect them all up as the morning progresses,I am so grateful for the opportunity to see it as a lie.
The clarity of this transmission, of pure subjectivity into words, is simply incredible
Most people don't realize that they're ego is a phantom. It always tries to convince the mind that ( It ) is who we ultimately are, but it's not! I realized the negitive aspects of my own ego years ago once I reached my early twenties. I just sat down one day in despair then thought hard about why life wasn't working out for me and why I was suffering so much. I eventually realized it was my ego with all it's desires and wants. So I decided to quit thinking about my desires and wants. And thus I began silencing those thoughts everyday until they became no more. Therefore my ego slowly dissolved and then I was able to realize my natural state and my higher self. Hence, my life has been much better ever since and everyone can do this.✨
I came to the same conclusion and have to admit that 🍄's helped me a lot in the realisation. 🙏❤
@@jonathanreader228Yes,🍄s can help and make you realize what you need to change within yourself. Though I don't recommend taking them all the time, because they will fry your brain. Yet it's alright once in a blue moon, or if you need to attain a higher state of consciousness.🙏✌️❤️
@@stephenflood3463 Good advice my friend.
@@jonathanreader228 🍄??? Not sure what it means?
Surely the mind and the ego are the very same thing and are just different names for that which we are all aware of and is constantly communicating with us, but is not us or who we are, but something we all once mistook ourselves for and controlled by🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you my Master. I just can’t be more grateful to you. I feel I am at home again ♥️ Thank you
A magnificent darshan, being able to view a Master, instructing from silence.
If you get this going you will illuminate the world and all
I Love You Eckhart. ♥️🙏☮️
Thought is the basis of consciousness. Without language you aren't conscious. I've been a meditator for nearly 50 yrs now. I have never once wanted to cease thinking. I am the AWARENESS that watches. Thoughts are simply part of the show.
1:38
Thinking is doing.
When you stop thinking, that's letting go. You become aware of being.
There is no duality, thinking vs. Being. It's only the language.
When you stop thinking, you become aware of being. Being is always there, whether you think or not. No duality in being.
Thanks Eckhart. 13 August 2023.💰🚈⚘👍🚣♂️🌱🎅😇💖🤠
SIR
Since the thingking process is being attempted to be stopped by the thingking process, it cannot be halted. The process runs automatically, naturally, and according to the laws of nature. You could deceive yourself into thinking it's conceivable, but it isn't; it isn't possible. Trying to stop is really difficult no matter how hard you try. Like breathing or an impulse, it is comparable. Your thoughts are not your fault. You cannot incite an uprising against nature because nature is nature.
It is true that when i write this response, I am considering how the thoughts in my head came to be expressed in words. YOU ARE A THIGKING BEING
Because you are still alive, thinking is essential.
I always hear "whith in without you" by the beatles when our man is tuning in ....❤💪
Yes, thank you, Eckhart! You have helped me experience what I read about long ago in the Greek Orthodox mystical Christian tradition of Hesychasm or Hesychia, stillness.
FANTASTIC.
It always feels so wonderful to relax the mind/ego...and connect to source.
Thank you! ❤
I wish you a long life.
Stunningly helpful. Eckhart is looking super smart.
Thank You for being you Eckhart Tolle ❤ you are needed. Just wanted to share because sometimes people get popular and they work too much or are taken for granted. So thanks for your contribution to the earth and the people.
I have a client that I working with who is really struggling to find their identity, which is manifesting a lot of stress, confusion, isolation, and loneliness, to name a few. This is a powerful video that I can use to help orient them toward purpose and meaning-making; to love themselves as who they are instead of what they are.
Vielen dank Herr Tolle!
First: Thank you. Second: I share because I think I am understanding and it makes me very happy. We are All Conciousness but we do not have the same thoughts, Consciousness is the Paper - thoughts are the colors we color our paper.... I can chose what color and the amount of coloring, or no colors at all... consciousness remains
Thank you. Your presence was so calming and right away I stopped thinking after journaling sure but I keep going even after journaling. Addicted to productivity. Thanks for the background noises. And your presence. Okay this too… is 😅
For me, awareness of my automatic associative thinking and personal fiction is a precursor to evaporating these thoughts that obscure ‘suchness’. Stubborn thoughts are given to the cosmic mind for resolution/dissolution. This reduces noise.
Amazing how these words managed to raise my vibration and my state of mind. During all my life I've been looking for a way to find myself and feel me free. Eckhart really has been teached me how to find all of it by your books and in your words. I am greatful forever.🙏🙌
The only time i feel deep peace and security is when i listen to Eckhart tolle. That stillness stays with me for a while but not for too long. It's so painful to be in this body in this self.
@Roberto-tv4uy you idiotic thing Eckhart is not fake. If only you had paid attention to him
Same here
..."but not for too long." Well mate, then just work on it H A R D ! The reward will occur . . .
Thank-you Eckhart 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Eckhart ❤
I was doing so well until I started thinking about a xmas soiree I'm organising. I think, clear your mind. Get in touch with your soul. Leave all earthly attachment behind. Then listen to this meditation.
So moving, so liberating...
Being HERE wherever HERE is and diving into it is the very reason we have appeared in manifested CONSCIUSNESS.
That is the only reason we're HERE. Remaining in claustrophobic indifference or claustrophobic aggression takes away all meaning from our precious PRESENCE.
It is pure grace.
it is pure grace to meet those who whisper to you to stay HERE.
Immensely gratefuI 💓🙏✨🌠
Eckhart knows something I don't, I am ok with it. Gradually it will become clear😊
Funny how TH-cam recommended me this exact video with the title “let go of thinking” at the very moment when I was pondering on wether I should continue doing my summer homework, especially after a long brain burn. Thank you, for confirmation! Sometimes we just need to learn to relax too and take a break.
Synchronicity[1] is very real. But, going overboard can be "ideas of reference."[2] (A diagnostic criteria for psychotic illness.). The buddha's "middle way" is a good path to follow. Accept synchronicity when it occurs. Don't go gaga with "signs."
[1] Coincidence of events that appear meaningfully related but do not seem to be causally connected, taken by Jungian psychoanalytic theory to be evidence of a connection between the mind and material objects.
[2] The phenomenon of an individual experiencing innocuous events or mere coincidences & believing they have strong personal significance.
It is helpful to be here together 💖✨🤩✨
Negative thoughts are just visitors, they pass by and let them go... they have no power over me.
I think the greatness is talking through you 🌹
Ruminative thinking is a form of doing,
resulting in waste of life energy....
Rumination deals with gain and loss; up and down; good and bad....
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Without the awakening of consciousness, the brain and mind are incomplete, that is why we do not feel the peace and happiness that is beyond all understanding.
In a first minute: THE BEST 🥰
Namaste
My favorite human❤ thank you ET🙏✨🤗
In reality... E.T. is what his initials are.... out of this world ❤
I didn’t realize! We’re so lucky to share the same timeline with this beautiful spiritual teacher✨.🙏🏼💛✨
✨Love and light to you and to everyone here.✨
I love the sauce of all life.
It’s so yummy… 😂🙏😻
Thank you Eckhart! Count me as one of the saved from oblivion 🙏🌸🦋🌱
Our thoughts/thinking are the downfall for most of us, most of the stull that come trought arnt even true.😊
Tell them to look between two words on a page but they can never see the words, only the black ink on the beginning of one and the end of the other. That really works!!!
I love you Gurudev
I have OCD and a general anxiety disorder so my brain is always thinking and worrying about nonsense and stressing me out. So to be able to stop thinking is hard, but when I manage to it feels like my mind can finally relax. It feels so nice. It's very hard for me to get there though because my mind is always trying to cling to some intrusive thought.
I feel the same! Has GAD and am continously worrying about "all and nothing"...BUT I sometimes reach an inner peace , and that is wonderful!! Think training is the only way to be more in this state....All good luck to us both!!❤❤❤❤❤
@@mariagunnarsson1892have you found anything that helps you ?
@@mariagunnarsson1892 Hi to you and James, I have suffered because of my thoughts and just wanted to say things will get better 🙏🙏🙏🙏. One of the best things I've ever read is " they are not your thoughts, they are not even really about you", wise words indeed 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@Puuws we don't need to sort out our minds, our minds will sort themselves out just fine once we stop taking everything they tell us so seriously. There is actually nothing wrong with our minds and there is nothing wrong with us either, other than our relationship with our minds has become a little confused. Leave the mind alone to do it's own thing and the mind will leave us alone to do our own thing. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@johngreen4683what about the mind when thinks and thinks and thinks
Lovely stuff, great delivery from Eckhart❤
We can miss so much, funny how we overlook and disregard the simple, gotta get on with life, this moment is the day, how full is this moment?
I feel like I finally understand. Thank you ❣
Thank you
As I watched this video I found myself thinking about what I was seeing, but I had no notion of the passing of time. At the end of the video I saw that it had been 10 minutes.
Working on it, realize lately my mind tell me lies😂Love this thank you❤
Love that
❤❤❤❤ thank u eckhart
🌼Dankeschön 🌼🙏😊
Let go to watch your videos!
Thank you Eckhart 🙏🏼 i had a pretty bad day today but after watching this i now feel calm, relaxed, at peace and a lot more grounded and grateful.. being a busy single mum with so much responsibility on my shoulders, irs hard not to get lost in the thoughts (especially the negative ones) but everytime i listen to you it brings me back to a peaceful state of mind and back to the present... Thank you very much for the work you do 🙏🏼 xx
Thank you, for this beautiful piece of meditation. I felt instantly clam and focussed. Thank you
Thank you so much😀
Thank you 🙏 🙏🙏
You probably right ....good night . Sleep time in Africa .. No thinking
Just surrender
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🙏🙏Thank you very much.
Thank you thank you very much sir
I am very grateful for your content , thank you.
Thank you so very much✨🙏 these meditations are priceless ✨
Merci
🙏❤️Thank You🌟🙏
Thank you for this meditation 🙏🙏
Namaste 🙏
ask the conman to tell you how to stop thoughts and lay the mind down,this is the way of a buddah,there is no other way,ofcourse once you are taught the way of a buddah you wont listen to this fool any longer oops
You seem the calmest person even after a tough upbringing. I would love to know how you do this ?.
This is wonderful. Thank you so much 🙏❤
Thank you for being a genuine guide. ✨️
Thanks Eckhart! 💜
Hey midnight!..how you've been keeping lassie?..hope all's going well with you my friend.💜
@@stephenflood3463 Hi I'm just at home resting as it's been an eventful weekend. How are you?
@@midnightblue2893 Same here, I'm just at home chilling out playing my keyboard and then I'm gonna watch a movie. Sounds like you had a hectic weekend and are now enjoying your rest. Hope your not stressed out and doing okay.
@@stephenflood3463 Hi thanks for reaching out! sounds like you're having a relaxing day. I also tried sending you a message on your channel but didn't know where to message you there. Hope you are doing well too! 💜
You are one with the source.
Beautiful 😍
Bonjour Mr eckart tolle je voulait juste vous remercier pour le bien que vous m'apporter la sagesse le lâché prise que vous
Partager car vous êtes la première âmes qui a su attirer mon attention vos paroles livre vidéo sont mon remède depuis 4 ans seul vos paroles mes réconforte me fond ivres mais surtout me permettre de me sentir en vie merci d'être celui que j'attendais pour me comprendre me libére j'espère ne pas oublié vos enseignements un grand
Merci Mr ives b,en in australie and non you from there really touch m'y ego tha ks
I needed this. Thank you
Mr Tolle. Do you not tire of trying to wake people up?
I appreciate this and all you 🙏
Gracias. Es una meditación para practicarla diariamente y así lo intentaré día a día.
Daniel Scranton recommends to follow you up in this interview. 🙏
JESUS loves you! Come to Him to experience indescribable peace, and the infinite love He has for you! He can heal all illnesses and disorders, and with Him you can overcome any and every crisis the world may put in your way. Repent of your sins and start a relationship with Him today. Call out His name and He will answer you!
I so need to do this❤
STOP THINKING, BE AWARE OF BEING.
Thank you.
the way of a buddah is the only way,listening to this fraud isnot it
super trouper!
Bom dia!!
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Bliss!
There is only myself
SIR
Since the thingking process is being attempted to be stopped by the thingking process, it cannot be halted. The process runs automatically, naturally, and according to the laws of nature. You could deceive yourself into thinking it's conceivable, but it isn't; it isn't possible. Trying to stop is really difficult no matter how hard you try. Like breathing or an impulse, it is comparable. Your thoughts are not your fault. You cannot incite an uprising against nature because nature is nature.
It is true that when i write this response, I am considering how the thoughts in my head came to be expressed in words. YOU ARE A THIGKING BEING
Because you are still alive, thinking is essential.
You're right that thinking is essential and not "bad." The problem is habitual unnecessary thinking, ruminating, incessant labeling, explaining, defining. Awakening is just developing (individuating) an observer of the thinker. The observer always exists, but is unrecognized because we drift into the chattering mind as an addiction, narrating our experience as if that makes the experience more real.
Ultimately, the only thing that's real is this moment. Everything else is a story we tell ourselves about the past & future. There's nothing wrong from introspection, learning from past success & failure; planning reasonably for the future, changing what can be changed. But, all too often "thinking" is more confabulatory than that. It's like a movie. You know a movie is single still images. When they're shown to you fast enough, suddenly it looks believable. The mind has a proclivity to "believe" that way. It won't tell itself "c'mon, I know this isn't real. There's a cameraman just outside the frame. The woman won't be eaten by the shark." It's more like "I _want_ to believe. I _need_ to believe. I don't care about reality." Movies will add dramatic music to help the mind do what it does. Compulsive, unnecessary & egoic thought is our dramatic music. It makes our life/experience more believable.
Awakening is individuating the observer (of all this) from the explainer (the narrator). You don't cease to exist. You just know the difference between the movie & being (without it). As Dada Gunamuktananda said: "We're all familiar with this saying by Descartes: 'I think, therefore I am.' But, when I stop thinking, I _really_ am." There's more to life than the story we tell ourselves.
@@markfuller I get what you're saying. As far as I can tell from your description, the mind simply behaves as what it is; it is simply the mind, period. It is incapable of seeing reality, is constrained, and is therefore not to be blamed. Just going about its business, but what do you know? The mind is quite extraordinary even though you described it in that way.
The mind is a very exceptional tool, that much is true. The words used here are merely an expression of the mental act taking place in this discourse. Don't dispute the reality of it. All of my words are in my head; the mind is God OR A CREATOR. It's also yours. You informed me of the mind and its observer, but the observer is not the mind, right? I won't ask you how you know that
People hold a variety of beliefs. Each belief has a beginning, but it works in the same way with the mind. You decry the mind as being unreliable and untrustworthy.
You cannot dispute the reality that we are only two thoughts engaging here; as far as possible, preconceptions need to be eliminated. What I said is a fact.
You are referring to awakening, which logically implies its opposite, which is slumber, since the truth exposes its antithesis, deception.
I get what you're saying: The mind is an illusion, and all of its thoughts and ideas are false. You are not who you think you are. The observer is always new and fresh, blemish-free, and there despite everything changing and vanishing. This constant presence that you can't escape or deny means you're always carrying about is not something you thought up.
Yes, I agree with everything you've said, and so do you. In fact, you can't tell me what you know without first coming to an understanding with it. This entire discernment process is all mental because, despite everything, there is always a core of knowledge that registers and records what you have experienced.
Religious practices are all forms of mental art, including your own. Everything is a mental act of creativity.
Your belief resembles an insurrection, revolution, or other form of rebellion against the mind, which is also a component of the mind's mental activity. The mind seeks self-extinction. A mind that hates itself. Hatred of one's own thoughts
The mind is capable of conjuring up any form of reality, including mine and yours, even if they are seen from different angles.
If the mind thinks the mind is restricted, it will appear to be limited; similarly, if the mind thinks a detached observer is watching the present moment, it will manifest as such. Don't underestimate its power.
Don't try to hide the fact that everything you have told me is likewise a product of your mind since, after all, you are nothing more than your mind.
@@assessoroffice7212 _"Don't try to hide the fact that everything you have told me is likewise a product of your mind"_ I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be adversarial (hiding things deliberately).
I agree with you that the mind is powerful. You said the observer isn't the mind. I think it is (or part of the mind, but more purely mind than mind filled with thought).
We do know a lot about the mind. For example, 95% of the brain is subconscious from which the conscious experience _emerges_ from (into the 5%). I find that perspective interesting because that 5% conscious part is typically distracted half the time. So, we have 2.5% of the brain demanding that it is the start & end of its experience. (I get the mental image of a tiny ant shaking its fist in defiance at the sun.). This small part of the brain (which emerges from a murky, mostly-irrational mass of the brain) believes "I'm doing this."
And then, Libet discovered that our choices/decisions occur 1/3 second before our puny conscious mind believes it decided. Dr. David Vago has studied this and found that our whole conscious experience occurs 1/2 second before it emerges. It's largely being done to us, and our conscious mind rationalizes whatever emerges as "reality." To me, that's a powerful example of how the real "control" we have is to observe our minds, exercise some space (additional delay) and veto what isn't necessary in this moment (the excessive thinking, explaining, ruminating, narrating). That's where we have free will. Not following whatever emerges as if it's real. It's not. Look up optical illusions. Our brain fills in things to make sense. It does that in many ways that aren't optical. :)
Look for the tedx talk by Dr. David Vago (mindfulness in the topic). There's another tedx by Sam Chase about this. It adds to the sense of scale, and that we're better off developing the observer, not compulsive thinking.
@@markfuller Sir you are right, I only need to look about me to see how much of who I am today was shaped by my Mind-thoughts.
It is a very smart, conscious self-diagnosing instrument that learned through difficulty and suffering.
As what you have said, we identify the underlying cause of misery brought on by unchecked mental activity and develop a technique or practice to address the problem (Mindfulness ). The mind is really clever..... so Meaning
Your mind is watching itself as it is. It is you, the mind, who is being observed.
You are the mind as it observes itself. I think that is the right word to say.
Everything or any action in which you consciously participate always has you Facilitating at its core. You agree to it at all times.. This includes all experiences that you have had.
The ability to pay attention, focus or concentrate by choice (Freewill) allows the mind to move just like a camera's lens. You are the mind in action.
You have the option of choosing to merely pay attention to the emptiness between your thoughts or to stop indulging any type of mental image or notion that you typically come up with by simply watching them without categorizing them.
Despite all, they are only mental exercises carried out by the conscious mind. We can experience them, so it is true. We are the mind in action.
If you claim that there is an aspect of reality that the mind cannot perceive, it is an assumption because we are unable to provide any evidence for it. I see us as nothing more than the Mind. Assumption cannot be used as an evidence.
What then replaces thinking to take over our daily lives and the world around us ? Who will put food on the table and pay my rent ? Talk is cheap.
@balas, that's a common response, "if thinking is bad, how will I get through life not thinking?" The problem is that we think (without realizing we're doing it) far more than is necessary. That consumption of the mind interferes with living life as it is (instead of a story we tell ourselves in the head), planning reasonably for the future, influencing what we can vs must-erbating in our mind.
It's one thing to make plans to attend college, get certified in some occupation, know the bus schedule, prepare to catch the bus, stop for groceriess on the way home. That kind of stuff is typically 10% of the thinking we tend to do (must-erbating in our minds, how things must be, or aren't and should be, and we resent it, etc.). Sam Harris describes this unawakened sapien condition as being kidnapped by the worlds most boring peson, forced to have the same conversation over and over. Why? Because at some level it feels better than the present moment as it is. Our ego needs to feel in control, narrating our existence (expecting & resenting). If you're like most sapiens (wise, knowing, self-reflecting), 90% of your thoughts have nothing to do with paying the rent, feeding yourself. At least not overtly. It's usually filling a psychological hole. For some people, if they don't do that they can be unstable, not know who they are.
_"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."_ - Blaise Pascal (Pensées ["Thoughts"], 1654)
What is holding on and what is it holding on to? What is the process or procedure of letting go?
Observe. You're usually thinking and identifying with that (the thoughts, the explanations (of what was, is, will be, should be, wasn't, etc). A constant story in the head that we're enmeshed with as if "this is me." There is a part of you that can observe this. Practice being the observer, acknowledging that you're thinking (what you're thinking) without judging, resisting, fighting. The observer is just the witness. By individuating yourself this way, you'll be less inclined to merge with thought (or, more naturally see that you're doing it, and step back from it.). If you've practiced habitual inner narration for years/decades, it takes time to practice something else (being the observer).
The 1st video in my playlist is a guided mindfulness meditation on the present moment. That's the one that worked for me. IMO, Eckhart's meditations are more guided than meditative. That video is the minimum guidance (least words & thought). It's not mutually exclusive to Eckhart's. Just different, less pointings about what to look for.
What is Tolles weak links in his teaching? Missing out on trauma? Spiritual bypassing? Shadow work? Metaphysical understanding? Sexual healing not properly understood? Anything else?
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It’s hard to when your homeless in your mid forties with no real prospects for a continued life on earth
Overpopulation ?
Podem ativar as legendas por favor
I’ve spent years of my life from teenager to adult meditating and I’ve seen changes over the years thanks for the advice you’ve shared over the years 😊 @Eckharttolle 5:27