Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

Welcome Bronto. Glad you decided to unlurk

Welcome, Tommy! Looking forward to your contributions.

Welcome Harlin. We look forward to your questions!

In Vedanta the mind is described as made up of several components like intellect and 'mind' (which interprets sense information) and memory, together which give rise to an ego-type construct (I sense). Self-knowledge (or removal of ignorance about your true nature) takes place in the intellect. Once...

by Jeff Lieberman from MIT
worth watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0--_R6xThs

The CE certificates appear to be for counselors, social workers and psychologists:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/cecredits

Hi Jen, Great to hear from you! I hope all is well with you. Sorry to hear about your parents. But you make some great points using their perspective. I had similar thoughts to yours when I heard the piece. That love and music are timeless or beyond time so to speak was lovely to hear. But what stru...

Thanks for posting! Very interesting.
Can you elaborate on what he meant by "conjoining of opposites". Thanks, rt

I heard this incredible clip on the radio today. It's about a person who has the most severe documented case of amnesia. He forgets everything in the blink of an eye. That is, he cannot remember what has just happened from moment to moment. He is literally always 'in the now'. He has no concept of t...

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...