Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTMj2N3D898

Wonderful discussion and Q&A between Deepak Chopra and Swami Sarvapriyananda on the nature of reality, Vedanta, suffering etc..

Great answer, Kiki!

That's great news! Thanks Eric, as always, for all that you do to keep this forum in business.

Hi, I know there are fans of Ramana Maharishi here on the forum and of Swami Sarvpriyananada. So I thought I would post this excellent talk on Advaita Vedanta that the Swami gives at the Ramana Ashram in Jamaica, New York. Brilliant stuff! Highly recommended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8m8ac_aB...

I enjoyed this blog post from a neuroscience writer. I liked his analogy of how our multiple 'roles', masks, 'sevles' are like different smart phone apps with no central processor .

https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2017/10/more-mindful/

Thanks everyone! One of the fruits of self realization is inner peace or release from suffering (to different degrees). So its useful to have some barometer of progress in one's spiritual practice. For me, spiritual practice has provided me with many tools to navigate the vagaries of samsara. And pr...

Kiki wrote: It's pretty much a unique thing for each person; what works for one person won't always work for another - things would be so much simpler if it did.

So true!

For me, these days a mantra seems to do the trick. It stops recursive thinking and places the focus on the self (presence).

Excellent news! Hang in there and keep taking those meds. Enjoy the diamonds too

I enjoyed reading this. Swami Sivananda was a great sage and yogi. Barometer of Spiritual Progress By Sri Swami Sivananda Here is an infallible barometer to find out the degree of your spiritual progress. How would you feel, if: Your clean hands or best clothes are stained. You stumbled down or comm...

Welcome, Satsangfriend. Looking forward to hearing more from you. Your English is very good! Love the picture as well.

Good question and nice discussion so far! For me oneness is the understanding that there are no two things here. That is, by definition, nothing that exists can be separate from existence (or awareness). So its not that you and I are ‘one’—rather that neither of us is separate from the awareness whi...

Yes that does sound like more than hormones. Glad you saw that and chose to get treatment. Be watchful of any depression that may be lurking around the corner too.

Hi Dij, Sorry to hear that you had a relapse. Sounds like a rough ride over the last few months. Hopefully the meds will get it under control soon. And don't discount the hormonal stuff either. I'm in that same 'certain age' bracket and I'm just amazed at the emotional volatility that I see in mysel...

rM wrote: I found that it was quite easy to see-feel everything around me, all the objects/phenomena that arose in mind, as awareness. But it was a different story with "me." I still remember when I first ran into the teaching that, in addition to all the phenomena arising, the (apparent) subject t...

Nice posts, E2B. I enjoyed reading them. E2B wrote: Spirituality, in a practical sense I have found requires an enormous amount of trust (in myself), that jumping off the cliff with my eyes closed is actually safe. This is so true. Trust is essential. Once we understand the nature of reality (that e...