Does Eckhart Think? | Eckhart Answers
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- Eckhart shares how he experiences thought in daily life in this excerpt from an interview with Sounds True founder, Tami Simon.
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An Eckhart teaching a day…will help keep your thoughts away 🙏
Love that haha
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Excellent, I would never have thought of that.
Truee, I still feel the need to visit and watch Eckhart Teachings every now and then to remind my self to stay aware of my thoughts and their gravity on me
Wow
This was one of the BEST Eckhart videos I have ever watched. It gave me a real sense of how his mind operates now. What a wonderful question, Tami, thanks for asking it. I loved this one.
yes, fierce presence..
He drags you into the state of your own presence. That is why I listen to him frequently
that is so well put and rings true
He is easily the best articulator of this.
It’s unbelievable as human beings the precedence we have given to thoughts over direct experience. Like how it has gotten this far is crazy literally.
Well said💯❣️
I had my difficulties with the concept of "use your mind to not use your mind" ;)
In the end I found that it is like: I eat WITH the spoon - I don't eat THE spoon.
Sending love to everyone who is having a difficult day. You got this!
“Come this way! I will lead you to a wonderful place - it’s called Drama and Unhappiness. You will love it!” 😂
I noticed the other day after I'D taken my Dog for a walk ,i realised my stream of thinking had almost disapeared , it felt Quite good not having to think all the time Thanks Eckhart
It wasn't Eckhart who stopped your thoughts ;)
You can't stop your thoughts. Because it's a sort of function of the consciousness. What you can do is just to be aware of them and not follow them. Then they will disappear by themselves.
Thank you for your teaching, Mr Eckhart.
A lot of gratefulness! 🙏
So maybe I can ask you… how do you actively choose to …say a change carrier or a new job or plan a vacation …. without thinking? 🙏
@@christin.a Thats when you use thinking to your advantage , it's when thinking takes up the whole of your mind thats not good x
Listening to Eckart is like saying a prayer.
Eckhart brings so much good and positve energy in the world. Vielen Dank 🙏Thanks
Loved that!! This woman had the power and authority to question Eckhart and I found it very fascinating to hear Eckhart's answer. Exactly what I wanted to hear. Got it!!
That's Tami Simon, the founder of Sounds True Publishing. She's interviewed many "spiritual" people over the years (Caroline Myss, Adyashanti, Pema Chödrön, Gabor Maté, etc.) She's great.
@@KellyMagovern I think I got it to
LOL no power or authority to question Eckhart... he agreed to share his experience
You dont need authority to question him. Just show up to one of his events and ask like she did. He have quoted Buddha a dozen times: Dont believe what anyone says, not even if I say it. If you dont sense the truth in what he is saying, parts of it or all of it, you dont have to believe in it.
@@mermaidplanet996 “This woman” he says had “power and authority”. He’s another brainwashed woke. Just write it off
DAMN! I admire his effort to explain the invisible world in a visible way 🙌.
I just sit and observe all existence around me and also my toughts, without giving energy to them. This is enjoying and amazing ...thanks E.T. you are a real guide for the humanity🙏🤲💕
Thats mean to call people names, he's not E.T hes more like Yoda
@@JackyRogueE.T is also Eckhart Tolle
O görünmez düşünce zokalarına takılmamak büyük başarı. Yolunuz açık olsun. 🙏🍀
I know i used to fight with my thoughts trying to discard the negative ones and only keep the so called Positive ones madness looking back to how i used to be 😀
Thx guru ji
Whenever I enter intense presence, as thoughts try to grab me, I say to myself 'Let Go!' I've seen so much now, I don't have pleasant thoughts 'pop' in, I get the raw real, no filter at all. It's been a rough ride but I have been granted the power to let go; the power of love without conditions, pure love. Pure love accepts all without filter. Now, envision that all is one, that includes ALL the nasty. The nasty comes to the fore and must be let go of, else one becomes a heap of uselessness. The same goes for the nice, all must be allowed to pass for one to become the peace of pure loving awareness one is. Thank you 💖
My experience has been very much the same, though I am not quite at the level of "no thought"...but at least the intrusive ones are gone for the most part!
congrats, i wish i could be there. x3
@@etistyle96 Quieting the mind takes practice, and it doesn't really happen all at once. I believe you will get there ☺
For me this is also recognizable. As long as I remember I only have thoughts if I am deliberately thinking about anything. After my awakenings the silence became a bit deeper.
There must be many more people like this I assume.
BTW: I notice a quiet mind is good for intuition, but does not help depending my meditations.
Is no thoughts even possible? Personally i can't see how,, but thoughts and thinking are two very different things. I suffered badly from intrusive from thoughts for a few years but thank God they happen much much less now days 🙏. None of us can chose our thoughts but thinking about them, or not, is a choice. Practice makes perfect and the less attention we give to the intrusive thoughts the lass often they happen. Simple, but simple doesn't always = easy, but something will click and from that moment on things will get better and better and easier and easier, promise 🙏🙏🙏
Great to hear that, nice work!
I noticed after my Awakening I don't think anymore at all. I truly have to put effort into thinking if I desire too. I use my intuition for resolving anything in my life. If there's a situation or a challenge that I'm encountering the answer will just come to me like a vision.
Wow I envy you - hopefully I'll get to the point where I don't think much at all as well!🙂
@@ruthjenkins9562 There is nothing to envy. It's just a process one must go through when you dissolve your Ego. The more you accept it the easier it becomes, the more you rebel the more pain and frustration you will endure. You're at exactly where you need to be so just enjoy the present moment. Everyday will get lighter, I have faith in you.
Thanks for sharing your amazing experience. Is your "Awakening" mainly free of thoughts? or it makes you aware of the truth of life as illusion? or did you see any spirits or energy fields in the process? How did you dissolve your ego or achieve Awakening state?
@@tiuticcarefreelife974 Yes, I'm completely free of thought. Throughout my life I was never an excessive over thinker mainly because I always expressed my thoughts openly versus repressed them like most humans do. Repression is a sign of weakness and only leads to depression, expression is a sign of strength and it leads to healing and a clear lucid mind. Yes, during my process I did go through a long testing period where I would notice different humans auric fields whether they were light or dark. I can see energy and vivid colors hovering around certain human it was so intense. The dark energy fields were extremely petrified of my presence and the light energy fields wanted to spend time with me it was quite fascinating to say the least.
I had a wonderful and adventurous childhood and two amazing parents but I always migrated more towards my mother because she was always open and expressive with her feelings and thoughts. My father always repressed his thoughts and mainly kept to himself because his father taught him that way subconsciously throughtout his actions. My mother was my best friend and even though she had no clue what I was going through during my awakening she was so fastened by my daily strories. When she died I miraculously healed within 7 days from her loss, it was truly a miracle in itself how I handled the situation that I envisioned would be so dreadful. I was truly blessed to have her in my life for 45 years.
My father was my best spiritual teacher because he had the largest Ego at that time in my life. After my mother had passed his life he was in complete disarray and I did my best to help him find peace. I could see the universe put us together for a reason. Everyday our conversations became deeper and more challenging but he seemed to appreciate becoming lighter and more free of thought. He lived for another 3 years after my mother died and cried every day. This was a man who never cried until the day he lost his wife.
During our conversations and on a daily basis I can see my Ego rise to the surface and I noticed it and I was training myself how to dissolve it bit by bit. It wasn't an easy process but eventually I got through it because the universe constantly tests you in every situation so everyone around you becomes your spiritual teacher. I noticed light energy would be fascinated by me and dark energy would fear me. It's still like that to this day but not so intense.
Thanks for the beautiful ideas - " the more you accept it the easier it becomes, the more you rebel the more pain and frustration you will endure" - for me it means the more you accept presence, the easier it becomes - the more you allow yourself to be present (without thought) the easier it becomes - I've definitely noticed that thought can really interfere with me being fully present - as Eckhart put it it's much nicer to be aware than to think!🙂
Eckhart’s journey and experience is his own. Everyone has to find their way home. We have this ability within ourselves. Its there always from the beginning of our existence Someone like Eckhart can only point to it.. but will you see what you have had always. Just remember puffy clouds ☁️☁️☁️
There are thoughts without judgment. ❤ With no judgment there is only the present moment ❤ Infinite Love and Gratitude ❤
More videos like this please. I've been following Eckhart for some time now, but this was incredibly useful. I have seen him go over that before in a talk where he increases the presence, but this is a great stand alone teaching. I don't get fierce enough. I'm always more in "gentle" presence.
I'm a chronic over thinker, and recently have had bouts of being very lost in thought. But I am able to be present, (when I remember). I declare that I am intentionally choosing to be actively present today and live only with intuition. And like Tolle, I also need bananas.
Thank you! I appreciated this question so much & Eckhart’s explanation. I remember as a teen, riding in a car with a few friends some distance. Some were tired. It got quiet in the car. One girl asked me what I was thinking about right now. I replied, “Nothing.” She answered back that’s impossible, because everyone is always thinking all the time. I told her I wasn’t thinking until she asked me the question. :)
When I do think about it, I was just looking out the car window as the forest of trees were going by, but that was it. I wasn’t thinking about the trees. My companion is the talker and loves to read sign ads & building names out loud as he’s driving for some reason. One thing I do love about him is that he’s great for starting conversations in a new group, whereas it takes me awhile to warm up.
Were you actually not thinking or just unaware of your thoughts? Learning to be aware of your thoughts or that you even have them is the first step, isn’t it?
@@shyademoxy That’s a good question. In my mind, and still even as a senior, I have a number of supposedly non-thinking moments when I’m in a “good place” in my mind just enjoying the quiet relaxation. Something I immensely enjoy.
@@shyademoxy That’s a good question. In my mind, and still even as a senior, I have a number of supposedly non-thinking moments when I’m in a “good place” in my mind just enjoying the quiet relaxation. Something I immensely enjoy.
I laugh. Thanks.
The presence is overruling the thinking mind, when the mind gets more noisy just upscale the presence. It sounds a bit like a battle 😅 It looks so simple and I’m try to practice it daily. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
Lol I can imagine the peacefulness of that state, but I rarely find it. Still very addicted to thinking and very aware of it at least.
It really is an addiction.
Man muss Ihn einfach lieben!!❤
I practice present much better by doing something,like reading a good book,cleaning a house,training..but in practising present by doing nothing,i have no much success,i didn't run in to a deeper present and i couldn't stay long in that state,also i feel a some kind of mental nervous because its hard to stay in present and be relaxed,but no matter I think the present moment is one and only realistic and happiest state of human
The greatest living human today.
Sometimes What he’s saying seems kinda kooky but when I really listen and take it in I think “yes, that’s exactly right”
I totally get what he’s saying. Lol ❤
I can’t even finish this 12 min video once attentively without my mind luring me to many different things each time. Have tried to replay it multiple times. 😅😅😅
Lol
에카르트톨레 선생님 저는 한국에서 당신의 강연을 듣고 배웁니다 늘 귀한 가르침 감사드립니다 _(())_
This was great, i loved hearing him answering questions about himself.
What an amazing question ! Thank you so much for asking it and thank you Eckhart for answering it with your honest and wise words 🙏 I wonder if Eckhart knows what’s happening right now to our civilisation… wishing you all peace and love.
Infinite thanks for having explained to us the subtle difference between two states of PRESENCE...SO precious...💓🙏✨✨✨
Just presence and awareness use thoughts to justify the subject's existence to himself. The object outside causes the subject intuition through awareness to give him the appropriate thought that explains the reality of the object. The correct explanation of what Eckhart talk about is not "not thinking" but thinking without emotionally connecting with those thoughts. The emotional connection causes those hooks to appear. Its because thoughts are not individual but emotions are. The whole awareness of someone's existence is in his thought when its intuitively perceived.
What a great video of Tami Simon & Eckhart Tolle together! Love it! Love the work they both do xx
FIERCE PRESENCE! love 💗
Eckhart went full on zen samurai mode, I like it 😁
Beautiful demo of normal and intense presence 🙏🙏🙏
Eckhart for the Oscar!
Same here. Occasional puffs of thought...usually just awareness.
It is more like 95% reduction of thought.
Psychology says we have over 60K thoughts per day, 95% of them subconscious.. thoughts elicit emotions (Energy in MOTION) that are habitual in nature bringing your past into your present awareness which creates your future reality and hence you have predictable patterns with predictable outcomes..
so by practicing presence and reducing the thoughts you’re no longer perpetuating past patterns into the future in the same degree but rather you are stilling your mind so that the voice of Spirit (or God, or your higher self) has an easier time getting through to you to raise your consciousness.
@Kenny Pettit It's just natural
hey, if someone wants to think incessantly, (like David Foster Wallace)
go for it, help yourself, buffet is open 24/7 ....but,
to quote the stones,
go ahead, bite
the big
apple....
don't mind the maggots.
@@mindsigh4 … my brain’s been spattered.. spilling all over Manhattan 🎶
@Kenny Pettit if it makes you unhappy, you have no choice
@@senecaskater when people stop thinking they separate from the nightmare of social programming and begin to tap into Spirit or universal intelligence that has infinitely more capacity to deal with your day to day matters effectively than your puny programmed personal intellect. Presence does not negate your ability to think and function it enhances it and allows input from a higher source.. but most are too in their ego to recognize this obvious fact.. not their fault, it’s programming
I've loved walking around like an alien visiting Earth for the first time. It's made everything beautiful, no matter what it is.
I think therefore I am. The modern world you see around you is the product of people who have done some serious thinking and then put those thoughts to good use.
I have been meditating for 30 years and my mind is very different now. I still think, but much less. Increasingly I feel that thoughts take me away and are an encumbrance. Silence in the mind, presence, awareness in the moment are much more real, interesting and free than thoughts.
Fierce presence. Every time I have a question he has an answer. As a Day trader sometimes the market can generate STRONG low vibrational emotions in me that I cave to. I will not begin to Practice this fierce presence he speaks of
Such a good question. I wonder if he ever catches himself
judging or sizing people up. My guess is he's beyond that.
Not attaching to thought or form, gives us freedom, distances us from suffering, and opens us to opportunities so we can rediscover being with Being. Gratitude for your practical teachings Eckhart.
It would be amazing to have Eckhart go into an fMRI scanner to measure the brain activity and see which parts of the brain are in use. What a fascinating blueprint for humanity this might prove for science
yes, i have experienced certain states in meditation that i think would have to show up on scans, u can feel the changes thru out the body mind spirit energy..
Tolle would be a perfect study case as he's said before that he's able to stop thinking like turning a switch..
Thank you Eckhart...
love questions that show insights about what it's like being eckhart
Gentle presence versus fierce presence 👌 this makes a lot of sense 🤗
I would replace fierce with knowing
@@leanfar4907 I can see why you might want to replace fierce presence with knowing presence but the fact is it depends on the situation - I'm living in a situation with a toxic neighbor overhead and it will probably take a lot of fierce presence (in the spirit of a warrior) to cope with living there because the atmosphere is so horrible!🙂
Did anyone else notice BEING AWARE of awareness while watching this video? (that was the real teaching)
yes, that's what he's pointing to..
"Gentle presence"
"Intense presence"
"Fierce presence"
Give those thoughts eyes.🙂
Thanks for the demonstration Eckhart Tolle. 🙂💐
What a beautiful question. I needed this. Thank you.
Beautiful.Thank you Eckhart.
Awareness is so much nicer than thinking.
Thoughts are like puffy clouds that come and go. They no longer have gravitational pulls when you awaken.
It's a conscious choice to be more intensely present when challenges come. Turn up the dimmer.
Intense presence is like a sharp sword.🐌
Thanks Eckhart. 1 March 2023. 🐞🐞🐞🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🌹
Yes awareness is definitely a lot nicer than thinking (and safer too!)😊
Thank You 🙏 Beautiful questions also.
Very practical explanation, thanks
Best question ever ! Thanks Tammy 🙏 and Eckhart 🙏
Absolutely wonderful so specific to the nature of the human challenge, a technique on the spot thank you both 💓
Wherever there are people to think, there are people to accept the result of thought.
There is nothing either good nor evil but thinking maketh so.
Thanks for being here 🌻
Fascinating explanation of Presence....and keeping awareness but letting what will be....be.
This man is amazing
Very 🙌
Eckhart enlighten me in many aspects of life
The other morning, I woke up with my mind very quite. Not sure why but it was really nice. Now, the last few days I have been mentally beating myself up a bit. I wish I knew why. I feel like if I silence the voice that is critiquing me, then I am not be responsible. I love being calm in the mind but I have a tendency to beat myself up. OR , I wonder if I am F- up and need to have these thoughts??
I think my thinking mind took over my typing 😂
So grateful for Eckart🙏
Very interesting first hand report! Thank you 🙏
Gracias amigo
Always inspiring and also gives a strong sense of presence in me that reduces My Mind Activity. Thank You My good friend Eckhart 🙏
Its amazing! This teaching!🙏
You better make that presence fierce hunny, I live for him saying when the time calls for it your presence can be fierce and sharp like a sword.
in Hindu teachings there is "the sword of discrimination",
used to discriminate
between what is real, God, and the illusion of the ego mind, or Maya..
Innocent puffy clouds, love it!🤩
I can't stop thinking
but isn't that a thought & belief that ur temporarily identifying with?
if u go into feeling ur energy body, it's like a dual acting dimmer switch,
as feeling presence deepens, thoughts get more illusive,distant & faint..so ur not wrestling with ur thinking,ur just
directing ur attention & deepening awareness..
This was actually very educational to hear
Very useful description
Lol, that acting-out of different levels of presence was quite funny, but also very informative!
Thank you!
Muchas gracias
Thank you 🙏
Wow, this was deep
Thank u eckhart ❤
Querido ECKHART en éste video reforce lo que usted enseña, como manejar nuestra mente y emociones en situaciones y con personas difíciles, para no enfermemos, no entremos en miedo angustia , sin saber que hacer, a dónde ir, con quien acudir para que nos proteja etc etc., cada vez que usted nos orienta, estoy segura que usted recibirá abundantes bendiciones, Saludos. !!!
It takes a lot of work and thinking to keep from working and thinking. 😊 Seriously, I understand exactly what he described as the thought just comes and quickly goes away because he does not follow it or expand it more than a quick puff. Then it's gone. No dwelling on a thought. It lasts a second, maybe.
El sonido e imagen muy bien, muy claras, saludos
I love love love Eckhart. You can say I'm a Tollist. I believe he ws a very spiritually advanced person in many lives - may have even been the 13 th century Eckhart - but didnt reach enlightenment. It happened in this life. In Buddhism we say there are four stagres towards enligfhtenment, and in each stage one loses a slew of defilements. I believe, he reached the fourth stage that day when he had his awakening. Id love to know about emotions; does he ever feel angry? I doubt it. Because that deffilement too is gone when one reaches the third stage I think. So this is his final life , lucky man. His energyh will remain as part of 'god."
It is not difficult nor does it take time to achieve.. On the contrary, it can be done right now as you read my message. From moment to moment you have the ability to choose whether you will follow the thought that came to you or whether you will stay in the now with less on your mind
Right now
YES this resonates so well 🙌🏽💯 thank you teacher 🧎🏽♂️
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very important video
Gratitude
I think maybe 40% of the day and once I catch it, I shut it down. Best thing ever.
You don't think at all 🤣🤣🤣
Had to laugh at the call of this video but of course I understood what it was about. Well, Eckart only meant he is a human with intense and long practicing of presence during his journey, with great results, however not free from challenges as well.
Direct willed presence in an emergency. Subtle focused presence in everyday life.
I love this man!!! He just gets my heart !!!
I’m aware of my automatic and associative thinking which as you indicate, I catch myself with emotional arousal. I consider the underlying psychodynamic and do the work to disentangle myself. When stuck I engage my unborn mind to do the work that is beyond my ego’s limitations. I experience progress. ( lots of I’s and me’s…work in progress:)
❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you
As long as I'm aware of thoughts and the thinker, there is no problem.
Occasional pop up thoughts; not to repeat back and forth sir, but you are up and hail! We learnt and resonate many things; of course life in general deserves many kinds of research, so be good to us special kinds?
thanx eckhart
A truly remarkable human being, thanks for being you Eckhart! 🙏
Eckhart,s look resembles christ infinite goodness.. even before talking he sends eternal love and compassion.. I believe a miracle can start any day cause this good man can make all us jump into unity and grace and heaven on earth.. love and peace must reign over suffering, he is an angel of god, I started praying for that miracle to succeed, join me...
I listen to her podcast ☺️
I believe this video was equivalent to an Eckhart masterclass under 10 mins.
He's a lock for the Oscar
Wow, Eckhart still looks so young