Although I am from India, I came to understand Karma better after reading Eckhart's books and listening to him. Thank you Eckhart and best wishes to everyone.
Precisely!! Your words are true and too the point! Unfortunately I notice all too often in the comments section, people feel the need to agree with everything Eckhart says and then write a long txt saying a load of rubbish about there stuff and there so called life's. Baffles me! Really does! Guess I ain't awake yet! 😉👉🙏
@@marnieoloughlin9366 How is it dependent on Presence, if according to Tolle it fades with the appearance of Presence and is there most significantly when there is no Presence? Maybe what you mean is that it is affected by Presence rather than dependent on it?
I’m unsure as to whether going beyond karma is different than being free of karma or whether they are the same thing. Whichever, always maintaining presence and consciousness is the ultimate aim. Thank you for this wisdom 🙏
@@shonawalton karma and enlightenment are two different things. Karma is the physical world, spiritual world is your faith and beliefs. But the outcome of karma may not be evil after knowing
" Karma exists only for the unconscious man. The law of karma exists only for the unconscious man; for the conscious man there exists no law of karma. It is really unconsciousness that makes you suffer. If you do something unconsciously then you will suffer, then karma will be created. ‘Karma’ means unconscious action. If you do something consciously, fully alert, no karma is created. If your act is total, spontaneous, it is finished in that moment. It is atomic, it is not a continuity. It leaves no traces behind. That’s why an enlightened man is unpredictable. Only an unenlightened man is predictable because he moves unconsciously, in a routine way, mechanically. There are no surprises in his life. Somebody loves you, and you love him. Somebody hates you, and you hate him. Somebody comes and praises you and you feel very expanded like a balloon. That’s why people use buttering so much - praising others helps. A Romanian philosopher, Cioran, says that the deepest desire in man is the desire to be praised - one may say, one may not say. Somebody praises you and you fall all for him. And somebody insults you and you become the enemy for ever. These are not actions, these are reactions. The other is using you like a machine, he is pushing your buttons. You are not acting, you are reacting. The other is manipulating you, he knows what to do. A conscious man cannot be manipulated by anybody. His action is not reaction, his action is action. Buddha was insulted, people were abusing him in a village. He stood there, and when they had finished he said, ‘If you are finished can I go now? I have to reach the other village, people will be waiting for me there. If you have not finished yet, soon after a few weeks I will be coming back - then you can do the remaining thing.’ Those people were a little embarrassed. Buddha looked utterly aloof, as if what they were doing had not reached to him. He remained unscratched. They said, ‘But we have been abusing you, sir, we have been insulting you. Are you not going to answer?’ Buddha laughed. He said, ‘If you wanted the answer you should have come at least ten years before. Then I was unconscious, then you could have pushed my buttons and I would have reacted. But now I have become conscious, I have become a Buddha. Now I can see what you want to do to me, and I am not going to be manipulated by anybody. Now I live on my own, now I do what I feel to do. And I don’t feel any anger, I simply feel compassion for you. I feel sorry for you - more so because in the other village before reaching to your village, many people had gathered there and they had brought fruits and sweets to present to me. And I said, “Sorry, I cannot accept them because I have eaten my breakfast and it will be unnecessarily a burden for me to carry these things. Please, you take them back home.” I ask you, what should they have done with those sweets and fruits?’ Somebody from the crowd said, ‘They must have distributed them in the village, they themselves must have eaten them.’ Buddha said, ‘That’s why I feel more sorry for you. Now you have brought these insults and these abuses and I am not going to accept them, what will you do? Now I really feel sorry for you. You can insult, that is your freedom - but to accept it or not is my freedom.’ When consciousness has dawned you act for the first time, you don’t react. An action is beyond the law of karma. The law of karma applies only to the unconscious being. The man of awareness has absolute freedom. No law binds him, no law defines him. He’s as vast as the sky, he’s as infinite as the sky. His freedom is absolute."
It is the human mind that creates fears, rules, laws and beliefs for others to live by, sometimes the intention is to keep peace and order, other times it is to gain egotistical power and control over others. Its only once we gain freedom from our minds fears and egotistic thoughts and feelings that we are free to evolve into beings that freely choose be kind towards and have no wish to harm others, without the need of fear to motivate us to be this way 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Up to the certain age I always believed everybody is nice, nobody lies, no body is evil,,,, then one after one I got hurt, lied was used, hurt over and over, till I had such major abuses and trauma so created body health issues, so I was innocent pure soul yet I got sooooooo hurt as result! I truly believe the nicer I was I got hurt 1000 times more, so how I am I supposed to protect myself? I had to pay big biggggggg price till NOW all because I was positive and surely it was the biggest mistake I made 😢
Breaking the iron law of karma, the circular concept of the world, which prevails in eastern religion, is coinciding with the linear concept of time, which is typical of western religion. "Now" considered as an infinitesimal interval of time, is the point where the line touches the circle, isn't it. My vocabulary of mathematical concepts is in Dutch: sometimes I don't know how to translate things in English, and Google Translate knows these things even less, but I believe we are talking about the tangent, here. Now as a dimensionless point is both time and timelessness, which is amazing.
Karma is meant here by Mr. Eckhart as the psychological and mental preparation of a person, whether he inherited it from his family or environment, such as the pain body , or as personal perceptions adopted by the person him/her self . Mr. Eckhart believes that salvation from that prior and unconscious psychological preparation is by being present in the present moment in which you abandon perceptions and judgments. 🌻
I've already seemed to have accepted that I'm ruled by karmic debt I must protect that debt. That being the case, obviously It would seem deeply wrong to let it dissolve to the part of the mind that created it. That said, I'm so tired of that mind
The egoic mind thinks that the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn’t have, or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have. Homework… Why is the egoic mind obsessed with ’Should’ ? Why does ’Should’ not exist in the present moment ?
What about epigenetics though? Your environment can cause dormant genes to express themselves right? Is that karma? Do bad things, have bad thoughts…switch on genes that correspond to that?
YES ! Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned master, explained his chain smoking like this: "the body kept some patterns !" Mother Krishnabai, consort of Swami Ramdas, was almost generous /money wasting as Swami Ramdas himself was almost stingy.
Yes. IMO, psychology, buddhism, new-age mindfulness/awakening all lead to the same thing: existing in reality more honestly. They all deal with (or get to) the confabulating self. Awakening to that doesn't make the confabulating self go away. You just become individuated from it. You know you're not the confabulator. You're the observer. The confabulator is like a wild monkey in your mind jumping from one side of the cage to the other, frustrated, wanting to be someone else, somewhere else, etc. When awakened, the monkey doesn't go away. It's just not you. You have a veto power rather than following the monkey on autopilot like it's reality, and hopefully something will be better someday. Awakening is individuation. The first step is being the observer of thought, that thoughts aren't you (you're the observer). The next step is to realize that there is a you that exists even without observing thought. Your existence doesn't depend upon observation (just as it doesn't depend upon thinking). The first step is huge, and where the real benefit comes (the veto power over the habituated monkey mind). The next step is maybe more spiritual. The first transcends your self. The second transcends reality (in a manner of speaking). The first might be called dualistic. The second non-dualistic (but, I don't know about that. That turns into a religious perspective. If you can experience your self not observing -- after a fairly long time of observing yourself thinking, choosing not to think, etc -- then that implies an experiencer exists. That is by definition dual. Just less dual. The whole non-dual thing turns into a divisive and haughty topic, IMO.).
3:05 something arose that was not part of karma at all. The arising of Consciousness or spiritual awakening is not part of karma at all. It is another dimension that breaks into the karmic realm 3:28 You don't become awakened by accumulating good karma. There is something totally from beyond your life beyond karma that can come in to your life at any point from the wheel of karma and rebirth
Karma is unconscious conditioning that runs your life. It's automatic. Time doesn't free you of karma. Rebirth is just another form and doesn't free you from karma. 💖🍭😎🌻👍🌻🤩💖🍁🌷🦅 Spiritual or conscious awakening is not karma. Awakening can break into your karma anytime. Thanks Eckhart. 23 January 2023.🐼🐿🌛🤩💖🌞🌞🍁🤩🤩
I was born in Germany and my childhood was wonderful. I played outside and inside , there were lots of kids in the neighborhood. We climbed trees. Dug in the mud. Flew kites. Rollerscated. Explored flies and salamanders. Now I’m 58 and being my true self again. I escaped from the ego- prison and enjoying being. Creating. Teaching. ❤ from Maine
Eu Ricardo Lousada de Coimbra,, digo-te Namastê. És parte do meu coração. Alma. Karma. Tu és único e incomparável. Paixão e tudo para mim, tornei-me em zero. Em Português, digo-te, obrigado. Por tudo e porquê é que eu existo. O que é a existência. Se puder, agradeço, resposta se possível. Je te do merci, thanks e Arigato.
I just love how Eckhart explains things.. brilliant. Yes if we focus on the whys and hows it takes us out of presence which is the only place you can understand what karma truly is, and how these patterns of repeating energy we often call “karma” can be our greatest teacher in understanding what energy we are emitting into the collective fields in this present now moment and how we can change these frequencies to change our lives…
I would explain it as patterns of thought, behaviors,that we do without realizing or thinking,is there a better way to be.u know this is vague,but it is how I discover this in myself
We often misunderstand the meaning of KARMA so many have written and said about it: I have never heard or read clearer and truer words about KARMA like those heard by E. Tolle. They go straight to the heart and you know right away that it's the TRUTH. A magic..... 💓🙏
This explanation is genius and I have experienced it myself. Even as Superconsciousness I sense peoples assumptions about me. I also see their beliefs by what others reflect to them. I recognize their childhood traumas by their mindset I noticed myself stumbling once trying to get words out. It felt like this person I was explaining something to was having a perception that they knew more or I wasn't saying anything that they didn't already know. I noticed how their thoughts was affecting me in the moment and I slowed myself down and corrected my perception and gained a deeper awareness over myself. I learned though from that experience that I admired something in her but couldn't recognize it in myself until that happened, I changed my perception and now I have it for me.
Dear Eckhart. Your first book woke me up and led me to my first understanding of my life.... I was 17, now, 40 years later, its so great, to find your brilliant talks on TH-cam! That's great. You are one of the most important souls/ beings/human beings, to teach consciousness and awakening. As I saw you again n heard u, I immediately knew, you werde gathering more N more knowledge and experience.... And we all learn of it... Thank you so much.... Love. Thomas.
🙏🏽 Presence (mindfulness /meditation) transmutes karma (personal & collective beliefs /reality) your experience(s) in this life. So good to hear this explained exactly this way. Began chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo in 1987 to ‘clear /improve the karma.’ It’s a method to achieve a meditative state / to focus. What an epiphany to put this scientific practice together intellectually in this way.
It's very hard to stop identifying with traumatic memories or thoughts if you've been doing so for many years. You can tell yourself "I want to let go" but it's tiring when you're trying to let go of a hurtful past every single day.
Identify which pattern is more hurtful. 1. Acknowledge it 2. Accept it 3. Forgive the person, yourself and the situation 4. Declare and surrender you don’t want that emotions 5. Create a new one to reprogram. See in your imagination and visualization it’s now different, things you want to manifest. Example you see you are now in happy situation with that person, or you are now in happy place, or you see yourself receiving things you want.
@@-report1070 Reacting to persons, situations or even your own thoughts in the same way as you have been reacting to it for as long as you can remember. We all carry programs, beliefs and convictions within us about the way we think things are supposed to be. Breaking these unconscious patters can be done by firstly identifying them. And to identify them, we need to create space (what Eckhart calles presence) inside ourselves to see them; those thoughts, those reactions. Recognizing inside your own experience that you are not your thoughts, but the consciousness observing them. YOU ARE PRESENCE. Breathing and meditating or any other way of conscious relaxation and self observation helps to do this. @andrereloaded: Hang on in there. Try to focus on sensory perceptions to make contact with the here and now, to go deeper inside the wisdom of your body in the present moment. Bring your attention from the thoughts inside your head a little more down into your heart. Feel your feet and Mother Earth. When tears come, welcome them: It's the body's way of releasing tensions and trauma. I hope you have a person or more than one around you who can witness your process, without judging it. You are holy, a divine and spiritual being deep inside. PRESENCE IS YOUR ESSENCE. The ego makes us think, keeps us in our painbody. One deep breath in which you stop identifying with thoughts is all it takes to create presence inside yourself. Practice makes the presence grow. Greetings from the Netherlands 💖
Bonsoir monsieur Tollé, merci merci pour l'enseignement sur KARMA, enfin nous comprenons maintenant KARMA , merci merci merci Tollé .je ne combatte plus les pensées qui viennent à l'esprit.merci merci.
Then WHY are many people born into non structured families with a mother or Father who doesn't know how to parent properly or nasscisstic mother who loved to be loud, aggressive, controlling and makes poor decisions all their lives that ultimately children had to struggle so hard to clean up the damages left by two immature parents and try to make a better life for themselves. And father who couldn't teach their children anything about life. WHY DO WE BORN INTO THESE KINDS OF FAMILIES who drain us to our core! There never seem to be an answer for this. Who is responsible for the families we are born into??
Posted here is a segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE... Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
Much appreciated Eckhart. One question a bit confused about, why did I encounter dishonest people when I believed and trust them in the goodness of human nature, and now, looking back, realize the discrepancy? Good thoughts attract good people and things. However, in real life, many times what is attracted are some hypocritical people who take advantage of your kindness.
You can reduce karma raising your conscious level and offer your daily actions and their results to higher consciousness without attaching to the result. This way your karma account reduces. When it zero ur free from birth and death.
Wish I was more like the people that commented on this video. I need to listen to it again. I sorta get it but it is still a little foggy to me. I'm going to give it another listen. I do enjoy learning from you Eckhart and thank you so much for these videos.
Karma if often thought to relate to volitional action. Karma is a Sanskrit word that means action. It is also considered the law of cause and effect. In most of Buddhism you find it related to volitional acts not unconscious patterns. This idea of karma being about unconscious patterns is very unusual to me and something I don’t agree with. The word samskara might be worth understanding in relation to karma also as it relates to tendencies developed in past lives carried through into the present life. Karma is often thought of as being intimately related to reincarnation as it is the driving force (vasana) that moves one onwards from an evolutionary perspective. I find his perspectives on karma to be unusual other than speaking of karma from a collective perspective, I think he does this, which is nothing new. Books that might be consulted on this are the Alice Bailey books where many different types of karma are described including national karma and planetary karma. I hope my writing here is readable I was not quite sure how to begin this writing and if it would come together well. I would look further into karma if I was a listener of this talk and think more about it.
I also have one more problem the idea that you can go beyond karma. To me the law of karma conditions everything including spiritual attainments such as achieving 'presence' which I believe is what he describes as not being conditioned by karma or free from karma. Would one's spiritual successes or attainments not relate to past life attainments to? It doesn't make sense to me to think the way he is. I think my understanding of karma might be quite different to his.
It would be nice to listen what Eckhart has to say about reincarnation. For some reason I always associated reincarnation with karma. Karma as something that we had to amend from our past lives during reincarnation like a consequence of not having fulfilled your mission in this life or of not having learned what is yet missing and so the circle will end when we achieve that goal. With this other explanation of karma my question arises as to why then we reincarnate.
That’s my idea of karma too. E.Ts explanation of karma is different from what I learned and believe. You are right there’s no point of reincarnation following ETs explanation.
The Buddha taught that the workings of Karma could only be grasped by a fully enlightened being, and although I understand that many will instinctively reject what they perceive to be a religious "belief system" (such as the teachings of the Buddha) I find it strange that Westerners see these concepts, that have been taught for millennia to be profoundly difficult to grasp, such as Enlightenment and understanding Karma, to be so simple to understand. It is a kind of arrogance we have in the West- a deep self deception.
Enlightenment or manifestation of that already within is the goal of humanity. Even in the east, the Upanishads it's always about going beyond good and bad karma . Good karma leads to punya (Merit), though there is no exact word in English to punya,which results in sukha or happiness. Bad karma(deeds) lead to paapa (demerit) which eventually leads to dukha (unhappiness/grief). But our actual nature is bramhan or conciousness which is beyond these two polarity of good and bad. Atman or self is the Brahman or the vast. So even in east , karma is on the planes of body and mind. Conciousness is satchitananda which is beyond both. For an enlightened person all karmas are exhausted or finished and hence no rebirth. Only the body lives according to the present life karma that is called prarabda karma. The other two sanchita and aagaami karmas are no more for the enlightened one.
some evil people are evil just with one two people; I mean ted Bundy was loved by so many, and nobody thought he was this evil serial killer, even you, can be nice to most people but horrible with someone that you heard did something, and you are evil in their eyes not to say hypocritical.
This is the thought that is making me reflect: Going beyond Karma, or freedom from Karma, is not necessarily eliminating Karma, but simply not being pulled by or entangled in it. I often wondered how the world or simply one's experience would continue running upon Awakening or Enlightenment when Karma is transcended. I imagined Karma would fade into negligible absence, and that the world and one's experience would be new and unrecognizable yet clear and relatable, but now I see the possibility of Karma existing within Enlightenment, adding to the experience of Awakening and Being Present, although subjected to it.
The ego is a subconscious false sense of self (over-compensating, dis-integrated, un-reconciled). People think of ego as more obvious vanity, pride, hubris. But, all of those have one thing in common: control, denial of reality. The subconscious is 95% of the brain from which emerges the conscious mind (which is typically distracted 50% of the time, self-talk, rumination, inner-narration). The ego lives in that 2.5% with a strong grounding in the 95% source of our existence. The ego (or, more accurate, the subconscious) is irrational. If you cheat & lie, your subconscious will emerge a conscious mind that projects your values onto others (not trusting others, finding "birds of a feather" among others of similar conceit & deceit). This kind of projection is typically part of the ego. "I'm all good, everyone else is all bad." It turns into a hallway of mirrors that we can't see our way out of. At some level we feel we deserve something bad, and so we overcompensate to appear we don't deserve it. The ego of others resonates on these frequencies and attract/repel in ways that we can't consciously detect (the hallway of mirrors in our minds). The 2005 movie Revolver comes to mind. It's a strange movie because it's a depiction of the subconscious. It's all about how the ego operates in a dream-like world.
I can't speak to Eckhart's notion of collective karma. Eckhart's a bit on the New-Age spectrum. Some of his views are a bit more spiritual/faith-based, not firmly grounded in buddhism (which itself isn't perfect either, but perhaps more traditionally understood as a lexicon of terms). From my own awakening experience, Jung's psychological theory of the mind seems to fit very well. Jung has a "collective unconscious" (an irrationality shared by entire communities/states.). To me, a good example is how we drive 40-60mph down undivided highways, missing cars coming the opposite direction by a mere 2 feet. In any other context we'd be "what are you doing? Are you insane?" But, everyone does it. There's a widely held (and largely naive) that the yellow line protects us. An assumption everyone respects the yellow line (when one mistake means a 80-120mph collision: the sum of the two opposing velocities). If you think about it, there's a lot of collective unconscious like this. It contributes to personal unconscious because everyone agrees, everyone does it, etc. I would think of collective karma the same way. Collective values contribute to the collective subconscious and will lead to individuals conducting themselves in shared ways that produce similar results (karma). A guilty collective subconscious? Or, a prideful collective subconscious (nationalism?). At one level we are individuals living our own conscious experience (which is 5% of the brain, emerging from the subconscious part of the brain which is 95%). But, at another level we're just part of a herd. We tend to normalize/de-normalize our own personal values based upon the herd. Our 95% subconscious mind derives a lot of its irrationality from the collective. Unless you're a hermit, it can't be avoided. If karma (consequences to unconsciousness) is real, then everyone reaps some of the same karma due to their shared subconscious irrationality.
@@markfuller I dont have a deep knowledge on this to be honest my only reference is ekharts teaching but, I heard ekhart saying or this may be the way I inderstood it that ego is the attachment on the mental emotional conditioning of a person this is personal ego and there is a collective ego like getting attached to country, or a relgion or political party so when ekhart said collective karma it i thought karma was the same with ego. But i guess what you sajd is that karm is the couensiquense for an
Sorry for the incomplete reply.....so i guess karma is the cuensequence of human unconsciousness or the attachment with mental emotional conditioning(ego)....
Although I am from India, I came to understand Karma better after reading Eckhart's books and listening to him. Thank you Eckhart and best wishes to everyone.
Your thoughts become your reality…💯💯💯
Thoughts can if we are not careful become our beliefs and that's where the real problems start for us all 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@Mah Jojo 😅😅😅💯💯💯
I admire your clarity and the way you approach Karma, thank you Eckhart, blessings to you
Incredibly beautiful words & presence. Thank you Eckhart
Precisely!! Your words are true and too the point! Unfortunately I notice all too often in the comments section, people feel the need to agree with everything Eckhart says and then write a long txt saying a load of rubbish about there stuff and there so called life's. Baffles me! Really does! Guess I ain't awake yet! 😉👉🙏
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Finally, somebody explains Karma in understandable way. Thank You!🙏❤️
Right! It's like an energy field dependent on ongoing presence...that's what I collected here.
@@marnieoloughlin9366 How is it dependent on Presence, if according to Tolle it fades with the appearance of Presence and is there most significantly when there is no Presence? Maybe what you mean is that it is affected by Presence rather than dependent on it?
My sentiments exactly. Great explanation as ever
What did he say?
It's absorbed through presence
So much love for being in receivership of this teaching. Thank you so much Eckhart.
Waking up is amazing, staying awake is another ball game 😅
What a wonderfull teaching.
One of the Best Interpretation ever.
Infinite gratitude beloved Teacher🙏💖
Blessing the awakenning, that allows people stop suffering ❤
After reading the comments, I'm glad other people besides myself don't get what he's saying! It has to be collective karma.
I’m unsure as to whether going beyond karma is different than being free of karma or whether they are the same thing. Whichever, always maintaining presence and consciousness is the ultimate aim. Thank you for this wisdom 🙏
Karma lingers
I thought the sages said it disappears with enlightenment.
@@shonawalton karma and enlightenment are two different things. Karma is the physical world, spiritual world is your faith and beliefs. But the outcome of karma may not be evil after knowing
Going beyond karmas is only a result of becoming free of them
Eternally grateful 🙏❤️🙏
Great teaching lesson about Karma. I’m so grateful. Thank you 🙏🏿
" Karma exists only for the unconscious man. The law of karma exists only for the unconscious man; for the conscious man there exists no law of karma. It is really unconsciousness that makes you suffer. If you do something unconsciously then you will suffer, then karma will be created. ‘Karma’ means unconscious action. If you do something consciously, fully alert, no karma is created. If your act is total, spontaneous, it is finished in that moment. It is atomic, it is not a continuity. It leaves no traces behind.
That’s why an enlightened man is unpredictable. Only an unenlightened man is predictable because he moves unconsciously, in a routine way, mechanically. There are no surprises in his life. Somebody loves you, and you love him. Somebody hates you, and you hate him. Somebody comes and praises you and you feel very expanded like a balloon. That’s why people use buttering so much - praising others helps.
A Romanian philosopher, Cioran, says that the deepest desire in man is the desire to be praised - one may say, one may not say. Somebody praises you and you fall all for him. And somebody insults you and you become the enemy for ever. These are not actions, these are reactions. The other is using you like a machine, he is pushing your buttons. You are not acting, you are reacting. The other is manipulating you, he knows what to do.
A conscious man cannot be manipulated by anybody. His action is not reaction, his action is action.
Buddha was insulted, people were abusing him in a village. He stood there, and when they had finished he said, ‘If you are finished can I go now? I have to reach the other village, people will be waiting for me there. If you have not finished yet, soon after a few weeks I will be coming back - then you can do the remaining thing.’ Those people were a little embarrassed. Buddha looked utterly aloof, as if what they were doing had not reached to him. He remained unscratched. They said, ‘But we have been abusing you, sir, we have been insulting you. Are you not going to answer?’
Buddha laughed. He said, ‘If you wanted the answer you should have come at least ten years before. Then I was unconscious, then you could have pushed my buttons and I would have reacted. But now I have become conscious, I have become a Buddha. Now I can see what you want to do to me, and I am not going to be manipulated by anybody. Now I live on my own, now I do what I feel to do. And I don’t feel any anger, I simply feel compassion for you. I feel sorry for you - more so because in the other village before reaching to your village, many people had gathered there and they had brought fruits and sweets to present to me. And I said, “Sorry, I cannot accept them because I have eaten my breakfast and it will be unnecessarily a burden for me to carry these things. Please, you take them back home.” I ask you, what should they have done with those sweets and fruits?’
Somebody from the crowd said, ‘They must have distributed them in the village, they themselves must have eaten them.’ Buddha said, ‘That’s why I feel more sorry for you. Now you have brought these insults and these abuses and I am not going to accept them, what will you do? Now I really feel sorry for you. You can insult, that is your freedom - but to accept it or not is my freedom.’
When consciousness has dawned you act for the first time, you don’t react. An action is beyond the law of karma. The law of karma applies only to the unconscious being. The man of awareness has absolute freedom. No law binds him, no law defines him. He’s as vast as the sky, he’s as infinite as the sky. His freedom is absolute."
Really enjoyed this post. Sounds a lot like OSHO.
@@ILVeNoFx it is Osho
You mean it's osho repeating an old fable
It is the human mind that creates fears, rules, laws and beliefs for others to live by, sometimes the intention is to keep peace and order, other times it is to gain egotistical power and control over others. Its only once we gain freedom from our minds fears and egotistic thoughts and feelings that we are free to evolve into beings that freely choose be kind towards and have no wish to harm others, without the need of fear to motivate us to be this way 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@willieluncheonette5843 any particular book or literatrure or something you can recommend i can read more about OSHO? Thank you
Great Spirits gift is the PRESENT!!!
Thank you Eckhart 🙏🏻 God bless
Up to the certain age I always believed everybody is nice, nobody lies, no body is evil,,,, then one after one I got hurt, lied was used, hurt over and over, till I had such major abuses and trauma so created body health issues, so I was innocent pure soul yet I got sooooooo hurt as result! I truly believe the nicer I was I got hurt 1000 times more, so how I am I supposed to protect myself? I had to pay big biggggggg price till NOW all because I was positive and surely it was the biggest mistake I made 😢
Breaking the iron law of karma, the circular concept of the world, which prevails in eastern religion, is coinciding with the linear concept of time, which is typical of western religion. "Now" considered as an infinitesimal interval of time, is the point where the line touches the circle, isn't it. My vocabulary of mathematical concepts is in Dutch: sometimes I don't know how to translate things in English, and Google Translate knows these things even less, but I believe we are talking about the tangent, here. Now as a dimensionless point is both time and timelessness, which is amazing.
Infinite love Eckhart ❤️ 🌌 Thank You 🙏🏼
Karma is meant here by Mr. Eckhart as the psychological and mental preparation of a person, whether he inherited it from his family or environment, such as the pain body , or as personal perceptions adopted by the person him/her self . Mr. Eckhart believes that salvation from that prior and unconscious psychological preparation is by being present in the present moment in which you abandon perceptions and judgments. 🌻
So tröstlich, DANKE
He is a prophet, no doubt in my mind!
Be still and know that YOU are God!!!
Thank you Eckhart, 👃💗
The best way to understand karma is to look at my own life
Ty Eckhart ❤ Always 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Excellent.
Brilliant!
Thanks
I want to know that waterfall sound, I love it
Un maestro! 👏🙏
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"the possibility of awakening out of unconscious patterns (karma)"
Thanks for your help🌷🌷❤️❤️
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Yes
I highly recommend "karma" book from Sadhguru. It was a huge eye opener for me 🙏 ♥ ✨
I've already seemed to have accepted that I'm ruled by karmic debt I must protect that debt. That being the case, obviously It would seem deeply wrong to let it dissolve to the part of the mind that created it. That said, I'm so tired of that mind
There Is Kama
And Then There is,
"KARMA"
BIG DIFFERENCE ❤
Namaskaram ❤
The egoic mind thinks that the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn’t have, or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have.
Homework… Why is the egoic mind obsessed with ’Should’ ?
Why does ’Should’ not exist in the present moment ?
According to the Jain philosophy karmas are the minutest atomic particles that get associated with the soul ( which again is a substance)
Nossa 😅Que alívio 😮💨
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grazie
What about epigenetics though? Your environment can cause dormant genes to express themselves right? Is that karma? Do bad things, have bad thoughts…switch on genes that correspond to that?
sir how to cancel all the negative spoken word due to too much of stress until couldn't cope up, almost give up. please help me🙏
so basically, what you identify with manifests in the external world and that's karma.
Thank u❤️❤️
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Does even after the awakening some mental tendencies, patterns or conditioning remain ?
YES ! Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned master, explained his chain smoking like this: "the body kept some patterns !" Mother Krishnabai, consort of Swami Ramdas, was almost generous /money wasting as Swami Ramdas himself was almost stingy.
Yes. IMO, psychology, buddhism, new-age mindfulness/awakening all lead to the same thing: existing in reality more honestly. They all deal with (or get to) the confabulating self. Awakening to that doesn't make the confabulating self go away. You just become individuated from it. You know you're not the confabulator. You're the observer. The confabulator is like a wild monkey in your mind jumping from one side of the cage to the other, frustrated, wanting to be someone else, somewhere else, etc. When awakened, the monkey doesn't go away. It's just not you. You have a veto power rather than following the monkey on autopilot like it's reality, and hopefully something will be better someday.
Awakening is individuation. The first step is being the observer of thought, that thoughts aren't you (you're the observer). The next step is to realize that there is a you that exists even without observing thought. Your existence doesn't depend upon observation (just as it doesn't depend upon thinking). The first step is huge, and where the real benefit comes (the veto power over the habituated monkey mind). The next step is maybe more spiritual. The first transcends your self. The second transcends reality (in a manner of speaking). The first might be called dualistic. The second non-dualistic (but, I don't know about that. That turns into a religious perspective. If you can experience your self not observing -- after a fairly long time of observing yourself thinking, choosing not to think, etc -- then that implies an experiencer exists. That is by definition dual. Just less dual. The whole non-dual thing turns into a divisive and haughty topic, IMO.).
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3:05 something arose that was not part of karma at all.
The arising of Consciousness or spiritual awakening is not part of karma at all. It is another dimension that breaks into the karmic realm
3:28 You don't become awakened by accumulating good karma.
There is something totally from beyond your life beyond karma that can come in to your life at any point from the wheel of karma and rebirth
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Gracias AMIGO INFORMAL
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Why animals are let to be harmed so badly by people. It is unthinkable suffering.
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Zamanın ermisleri🧿🌺💫🌹💮🌼💐🌟🌺💫🌹💮🌼💐👍
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Karma is unconscious conditioning that runs your life.
It's automatic. Time doesn't free you of karma.
Rebirth is just another form and doesn't free you from karma.
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Spiritual or conscious awakening is not karma. Awakening can break into your karma anytime.
Thanks Eckhart. 23 January 2023.🐼🐿🌛🤩💖🌞🌞🍁🤩🤩
I appreciate you Eckhart ☮️🤍☀️
I would like for him to explain Kundalini
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I NEEEDED THIS RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT. Funny how when you need something is shows up!
knock & the door will be opened,
and be aware where we knock
I was born in Germany and my childhood was wonderful. I played outside and inside , there were lots of kids in the neighborhood. We climbed trees. Dug in the mud. Flew kites. Rollerscated. Explored flies and salamanders. Now I’m 58 and being my true self again. I escaped from the ego- prison and enjoying being. Creating. Teaching. ❤ from Maine
Wonderful,from Germany greetings 👋🙏💜🙏🌹🌸🌸🌸🌸💗
Eu Ricardo Lousada de Coimbra,, digo-te Namastê. És parte do meu coração. Alma. Karma. Tu és único e incomparável. Paixão e tudo para mim, tornei-me em zero. Em Português, digo-te, obrigado. Por tudo e porquê é que eu existo. O que é a existência. Se puder, agradeço, resposta se possível. Je te do merci, thanks e Arigato.
Happy to hear such happy life! May your life always be enriched with presence and happiness ❤
Namaste from India. Glad to know that you escaped from your ego - prison. May you thrive in whatever you do.
what Germany has to do with all that?
I just love how Eckhart explains things.. brilliant. Yes if we focus on the whys and hows it takes us out of presence which is the only place you can understand what karma truly is, and how these patterns of repeating energy we often call “karma” can be our greatest teacher in understanding what energy we are emitting into the collective fields in this present now moment and how we can change these frequencies to change our lives…
nutshell?? What is it and not is?
@@ebazileyes1475 I don’t understand what you’re asking. What dies “nutshell” mean? I do not see that phrase in my comment
@@TheMediumChannel I think he is asking "What is "Karma" in a nutshell or in essence.
can anyone explain what he meant by unconcious patterns ??
I would explain it as patterns of thought, behaviors,that we do without realizing or thinking,is there a better way to be.u know this is vague,but it is how I discover this in myself
Dear Eckhart. Thank you for saving millions of people by your wise teachings. May God bless you and your loved ones Sir
Thank you forever Eckhart ✨🙌❤️ !!!
We often misunderstand the meaning of KARMA so many have written and said about it: I have never heard or read clearer and truer words about KARMA like those heard by E. Tolle. They go straight to the heart and you know right away that it's the TRUTH. A magic..... 💓🙏
We create karma when we express from the "reactive mind" rather than from the stillness of Presence.🙏🌈
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That makes a lot of sense ❤
Thank you for this comment I didn't get it
He always make everything so clear and simple, thank you so much❤
This explanation is genius and I have experienced it myself. Even as Superconsciousness I sense peoples assumptions about me. I also see their beliefs by what others reflect to them. I recognize their childhood traumas by their mindset
I noticed myself stumbling once trying to get words out. It felt like this person I was explaining something to was having a perception that they knew more or I wasn't saying anything that they didn't already know. I noticed how their thoughts was affecting me in the moment and I slowed myself down and corrected my perception and gained a deeper awareness over myself.
I learned though from that experience that I admired something in her but couldn't recognize it in myself until that happened, I changed my perception and now I have it for me.
Karma Karma Karma.Chameleon.
Dear Eckhart. Your first book woke me up and led me to my first understanding of my life.... I was 17, now, 40 years later, its so great, to find your brilliant talks on TH-cam! That's great. You are one of the most important souls/ beings/human beings, to teach consciousness and awakening. As I saw you again n heard u, I immediately knew, you werde gathering more N more knowledge and experience.... And we all learn of it... Thank you so much.... Love. Thomas.
🙏🏽 Presence (mindfulness /meditation) transmutes karma (personal & collective beliefs /reality) your experience(s) in this life. So good to hear this explained exactly this way. Began chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo in 1987 to ‘clear /improve the karma.’ It’s a method to achieve a meditative state / to focus. What an epiphany to put this scientific practice together intellectually in this way.
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I wish everyone stop their bad karma, and have a good one and happy and fulfilled life with great mental and emotional and spiritual health peace ❤❤❤
It's very hard to stop identifying with traumatic memories or thoughts if you've been doing so for many years. You can tell yourself "I want to let go" but it's tiring when you're trying to let go of a hurtful past every single day.
Identify which pattern is more hurtful.
1. Acknowledge it
2. Accept it
3. Forgive the person, yourself and the situation
4. Declare and surrender you don’t want that emotions
5. Create a new one to reprogram. See in your imagination and visualization it’s now different, things you want to manifest. Example you see you are now in happy situation with that person, or you are now in happy place, or you see yourself receiving things you want.
@@edgarnapiza4667 Thank you for this help. I have to break this mind-body circus.
@@edgarnapiza4667 can anyone explain what he meant by unconcious patterns ??
@@-report1070 Reacting to persons, situations or even your own thoughts in the same way as you have been reacting to it for as long as you can remember. We all carry programs, beliefs and convictions within us about the way we think things are supposed to be. Breaking these unconscious patters can be done by firstly identifying them. And to identify them, we need to create space (what Eckhart calles presence) inside ourselves to see them; those thoughts, those reactions. Recognizing inside your own experience that you are not your thoughts, but the consciousness observing them. YOU ARE PRESENCE. Breathing and meditating or any other way of conscious relaxation and self observation helps to do this.
@andrereloaded: Hang on in there. Try to focus on sensory perceptions to make contact with the here and now, to go deeper inside the wisdom of your body in the present moment. Bring your attention from the thoughts inside your head a little more down into your heart. Feel your feet and Mother Earth. When tears come, welcome them: It's the body's way of releasing tensions and trauma. I hope you have a person or more than one around you who can witness your process, without judging it. You are holy, a divine and spiritual being deep inside. PRESENCE IS YOUR ESSENCE. The ego makes us think, keeps us in our painbody. One deep breath in which you stop identifying with thoughts is all it takes to create presence inside yourself. Practice makes the presence grow. Greetings from the Netherlands 💖
@@leonhoogeveen4896 thank you for your reply.. i reallly apriciate it..
Bonsoir monsieur Tollé, merci merci pour l'enseignement sur KARMA, enfin nous comprenons maintenant KARMA , merci merci merci Tollé .je ne combatte plus les pensées qui viennent à l'esprit.merci merci.
You are so humble ,yet are so genuinely unaffected by your very High Consciousness .
Thank you for your profound 'Presence '!
Then WHY are many people born into non structured families with a mother or Father who doesn't know how to parent properly or nasscisstic mother who loved to be loud, aggressive, controlling and makes poor decisions all their lives that ultimately children had to struggle so hard to clean up the damages left by two immature parents and try to make a better life for themselves. And father who couldn't teach their children anything about life. WHY DO WE BORN INTO THESE KINDS OF FAMILIES who drain us to our core!
There never seem to be an answer for this. Who is responsible for the families we are born into??
Posted here is a segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'...
My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE...
Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave.
The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist.
For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is.
Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment.
The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing.
The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists.
Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’.
On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication.
For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything.
NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
but sometimes when you think that the world is basically good, life comes up and slaps you in the face with mean and selfish people.
Are we related?
Danke Eckhart, dies ist auch ein ein Teil des Puzzles, um unser Bewusstsein und unsere Aufmerksamkeit zu stärken!‼🐝🥀🥀🧘🧘♂🧘♀🧘🥀🥀🐝😃😌🙏
Much appreciated Eckhart. One question a bit confused about, why did I encounter dishonest people when I believed and trust them in the goodness of human nature, and now, looking back, realize the discrepancy? Good thoughts attract good people and things. However, in real life, many times what is attracted are some hypocritical people who take advantage of your kindness.
Yes,We are Divine Beings but have been brainwashed since birth to be human $laves!!!
Karma does not exist. It is complete BS.
Ok, the karma dance: step out of karma with presence. Eckhart points to it taking allot of presence in some situations. So, presence has more purpose.
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You can reduce karma raising your conscious level and offer your daily actions and their results to higher consciousness without attaching to the result. This way your karma account reduces. When it zero ur free from birth and death.
But if i do something bad to somebody it will come back to me?
living Dharma step by step and if I fell I didn't notice... in English: Don't look back.
Wish I was more like the people that commented on this video. I need to listen to it again. I sorta get it but it is still a little foggy to me. I'm going to give it another listen. I do enjoy learning from you Eckhart and thank you so much for these videos.
Karma if often thought to relate to volitional action. Karma is a Sanskrit word that means action. It is also considered the law of cause and effect. In most of Buddhism you find it related to volitional acts not unconscious patterns. This idea of karma being about unconscious patterns is very unusual to me and something I don’t agree with. The word samskara might be worth understanding in relation to karma also as it relates to tendencies developed in past lives carried through into the present life. Karma is often thought of as being intimately related to reincarnation as it is the driving force (vasana) that moves one onwards from an evolutionary perspective. I find his perspectives on karma to be unusual other than speaking of karma from a collective perspective, I think he does this, which is nothing new. Books that might be consulted on this are the Alice Bailey books where many different types of karma are described including national karma and planetary karma.
I hope my writing here is readable I was not quite sure how to begin this writing and if it would come together well. I would look further into karma if I was a listener of this talk and think more about it.
I also have one more problem the idea that you can go beyond karma. To me the law of karma conditions everything including spiritual attainments such as achieving 'presence' which I believe is what he describes as not being conditioned by karma or free from karma. Would one's spiritual successes or attainments not relate to past life attainments to? It doesn't make sense to me to think the way he is. I think my understanding of karma might be quite different to his.
It would be nice to listen what Eckhart has to say about reincarnation.
For some reason I always associated reincarnation with karma. Karma as something that we had to amend from our past lives during reincarnation like a consequence of not having fulfilled your mission in this life or of not having learned what is yet missing and so the circle will end when we achieve that goal. With this other explanation of karma my question arises as to why then we reincarnate.
That’s my idea of karma too. E.Ts explanation of karma is different from what I learned and believe. You are right there’s no point of reincarnation following ETs explanation.
There is no way to understand what karma is, unless you experience the Light…⭐️
I woke up after getting a DUI.
The Buddha taught that the workings of Karma could only be grasped by a fully enlightened being, and although I understand that many will instinctively reject what they perceive to be a religious "belief system" (such as the teachings of the Buddha) I find it strange that Westerners see these concepts, that have been taught for millennia to be profoundly difficult to grasp, such as Enlightenment and understanding Karma, to be so simple to understand. It is a kind of arrogance we have in the West- a deep self deception.
Wow. Incredibly powerful video. Thank you for the affirmation, Teacher.
People are not always drawn to you when you are present. It depends...
Enlightenment or manifestation of that already within is the goal of humanity. Even in the east, the Upanishads it's always about going beyond good and bad karma . Good karma leads to punya (Merit), though there is no exact word in English to punya,which results in sukha or happiness. Bad karma(deeds) lead to paapa (demerit) which eventually leads to dukha (unhappiness/grief). But our actual nature is bramhan or conciousness which is beyond these two polarity of good and bad. Atman or self is the Brahman or the vast. So even in east , karma is on the planes of body and mind. Conciousness is satchitananda which is beyond both. For an enlightened person all karmas are exhausted or finished and hence no rebirth. Only the body lives according to the present life karma that is called prarabda karma. The other two sanchita and aagaami karmas are no more for the enlightened one.
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some evil people are evil just with one two people; I mean ted Bundy was loved by so many, and nobody thought he was this evil serial killer, even you, can be nice to most people but horrible with someone that you heard did something, and you are evil in their eyes not to say hypocritical.
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Gracias querido amigo y maestro...con respeto saludos y SALUD a mi muy querido respetado E.T.
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This is the thought that is making me reflect: Going beyond Karma, or freedom from Karma, is not necessarily eliminating Karma, but simply not being pulled by or entangled in it.
I often wondered how the world or simply one's experience would continue running upon Awakening or Enlightenment when Karma is transcended. I imagined Karma would fade into negligible absence, and that the world and one's experience would be new and unrecognizable yet clear and relatable, but now I see the possibility of Karma existing within Enlightenment, adding to the experience of Awakening and Being Present, although subjected to it.
Is karma the same with ego?? i got confused when ekhart says collective karma
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The ego is a subconscious false sense of self (over-compensating, dis-integrated, un-reconciled). People think of ego as more obvious vanity, pride, hubris. But, all of those have one thing in common: control, denial of reality. The subconscious is 95% of the brain from which emerges the conscious mind (which is typically distracted 50% of the time, self-talk, rumination, inner-narration). The ego lives in that 2.5% with a strong grounding in the 95% source of our existence. The ego (or, more accurate, the subconscious) is irrational. If you cheat & lie, your subconscious will emerge a conscious mind that projects your values onto others (not trusting others, finding "birds of a feather" among others of similar conceit & deceit). This kind of projection is typically part of the ego. "I'm all good, everyone else is all bad." It turns into a hallway of mirrors that we can't see our way out of. At some level we feel we deserve something bad, and so we overcompensate to appear we don't deserve it. The ego of others resonates on these frequencies and attract/repel in ways that we can't consciously detect (the hallway of mirrors in our minds).
The 2005 movie Revolver comes to mind. It's a strange movie because it's a depiction of the subconscious. It's all about how the ego operates in a dream-like world.
I can't speak to Eckhart's notion of collective karma. Eckhart's a bit on the New-Age spectrum. Some of his views are a bit more spiritual/faith-based, not firmly grounded in buddhism (which itself isn't perfect either, but perhaps more traditionally understood as a lexicon of terms).
From my own awakening experience, Jung's psychological theory of the mind seems to fit very well. Jung has a "collective unconscious" (an irrationality shared by entire communities/states.). To me, a good example is how we drive 40-60mph down undivided highways, missing cars coming the opposite direction by a mere 2 feet. In any other context we'd be "what are you doing? Are you insane?" But, everyone does it. There's a widely held (and largely naive) that the yellow line protects us. An assumption everyone respects the yellow line (when one mistake means a 80-120mph collision: the sum of the two opposing velocities). If you think about it, there's a lot of collective unconscious like this. It contributes to personal unconscious because everyone agrees, everyone does it, etc.
I would think of collective karma the same way. Collective values contribute to the collective subconscious and will lead to individuals conducting themselves in shared ways that produce similar results (karma). A guilty collective subconscious? Or, a prideful collective subconscious (nationalism?). At one level we are individuals living our own conscious experience (which is 5% of the brain, emerging from the subconscious part of the brain which is 95%). But, at another level we're just part of a herd. We tend to normalize/de-normalize our own personal values based upon the herd. Our 95% subconscious mind derives a lot of its irrationality from the collective. Unless you're a hermit, it can't be avoided. If karma (consequences to unconsciousness) is real, then everyone reaps some of the same karma due to their shared subconscious irrationality.
@@markfuller I dont have a deep knowledge on this to be honest my only reference is ekharts teaching but, I heard ekhart saying or this may be the way I inderstood it that ego is the attachment on the mental emotional conditioning of a person this is personal ego and there is a collective ego like getting attached to country, or a relgion or political party so when ekhart said collective karma it i thought karma was the same with ego.
But i guess what you sajd is that karm is the couensiquense for an
Sorry for the incomplete reply.....so i guess karma is the cuensequence of human unconsciousness or the attachment with mental emotional conditioning(ego)....