Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

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...

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.