Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

Hi Kate,
Welcome back! Since you started with these teachings as a teenager, I'm curious as to how much benefit you got out of them. And yes, I can imagine at that young age, life is more about trying to figure things out.
Enjoy the forum, rt

Thanks for describing your method, Kiki. I can really feel the stillness in your words when I read your posts.

Nice analogy, Turiya! The metaphorical Jesus.

I don't know much about Jesus--but I expect he was self-realized. He knew he was awareness and spoke from that perspective.

Exactly, Joe! And that awareness is YOU. You are pure being/awareness (God) plus the name and form of awareness appearing as Joe.

Welcome Christa! Hope you enjoy the forum.

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...