Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

Here's what usually happens: I take a practice, and practice it for a long period of time(being present, all is one etc) Then after a while I decide to just let it go, because I either cannot maintain it enough or whatever. When I let go, life feels SO intensely close and I just do whatever I want. ...

I've heard teachers talk of an awakening of emptiness followed by an awakening of love, where you see yourself in everything. I assume your experience of realizing the self is recent? Love will probably reveal itself at some point. My experience is very similar to yours, but I still have layers of i...

Is your "light of awareness" somewhere behind your eyes? Or is it everything?

Yes, it's true, we hide from death. But take your idea a little further. We close our eyes to a lot of things. We even hide from life. Also- don't generalize, look at what YOU hide from. How many times you find yourself in the middle of a conversation and if you just relax in the moment, you find yo...

So I'm 22 and I'm in my first relationship with a much older woman for about 8 months. When I met her, I was meeting a lot of woman and I felt a very strong energetic pull towards her, and she did towards me. In fact, half of our first meeting was spent in a present silence and it felt good. For the...

Rideforever and treasurehunt, you seem to have the wrong impression that I separate spiritual practice from daily life. Probably this is the impression I've created along my post. However it is not true. I integrate it as much as possible. If you surrender then you integrate everything together. If ...

Do you know the feeling when you abstain from certain food because of a diet and then, when that period is over, there is like a deep longing to just put your hands on that tasty food once more ? Or you abstain from sex for a few weeks and then your whole body just needs it, you just crave for it ? ...

Actually, approaching strangers is a great way do destroy(a part of) your ego. A primary advice which many of those coaches give is to ruin your "self image" at the beginning of the night, and you will flow into state. Something kind of clicks with Eckharts teaching, doesn't it ? whenever I use dire...

Is your activity used as a way to create stability - is it a support of some kind ... and when you take it away it falls apart ? You could say it is. I only give presence "half-attention", the other half is on the action. So I don't really "care" about presence, I just do my action with 100% attent...

Peaks and falls is an overall view of my "spiritual progress" throughout this whole time, meaning there are periods when I invite more awareness into my life, and periods when I don't have gaps and spaces between my actions because I am distracted by external stimulus. When I say I am conscious in e...

I've practiced being in the moment for about 2 years, I've had my peak moments and downfalls. In spite of my nickname, I've never done any formal meditation. I never found it "natural". A lot of changes came in my life, and recently I became too outwardly oriented. So I joined a Zen group and starte...

I admit that I still hold onto mental concepts for comfort...and that I come back for answers, when it really is found within... I admit that i have taken it very seriously at times... though being yourself isn't a serious business at all... I think the the other day, a painbody activated my painbo...

Rideforever: I still don't have the answer... I often get annoyed with myself and others (I really don't like getting annoyed at others...)... Why ? Sometimes other people are a*holes. Are you sure nothing works ? I'm not sure... But it seems like anger comes and goes... I am just afraid of letting...

I can't get over past pain and i'm finding it hard to let go. I have repetitive thought that has been in my head for a long time and it won't go. If i can get over it i have a lot of potential to do things but my mind still thinks about things that died ages ago and are completely over. Everything ...

Without writing a novel here... I'm 23 years old and I recently moved out of my parents house. I did this because my dad is a REAL hassle to live with plus my parents are getting a divorce and I'm the only child. I didn't want to live in a hostile environment for 6 months while they wait for the di...