Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

Hopefully this title is not misleading, but I find within myself that when I have this uncertainty with having individuality, I find myself more attached to the ego. I had done some observations, and I have noticed that I hate when people dont "Live and let live" or embrace their individuality. The...

Why is it that when you listen to Eckhart talk about enlightenment, he uses very basic words that are far from woo woo talk yet in India they talk about states of samadhi and mahasamadhi in particular where you intentionally leave the body because you are already realized? This guy Sadhguru mention...

Great video. Thank you. When I look to a human, I see a chimpanzee. When I look to a chimpanzee, I see a panther. When I look to a panther, I see a rat. When I look to a rat, I see a neanderthal. When I look to the fake Neanderthal pictures in internet I see a human again. Ironically being aware of ...

I'm reading the Power of Now, about halfway through. He says, in my interpretation, that when you learn to break free of your ego (stop identifying with your thoughts) and live in the "Now", you will feel a sense of peace and joy bubble up in you. If this is incorrect or incomplete in any way pleas...

Thanks you for your feedback. These conditions usually show up in very relaxed states such as going into sleep or coming out of it. It can also happen during deep meditations. What I experience happens all the time in the waking state. Eyes open or closed, with or without earplugs. I don't know if ...

What are your thoughts on the use of psychedelics as tools for presence? I cannot speak for all those since, I am limited to mushrooms and psilocybin. IMHO I can say, I notice a significant degree of presence and or peeling away of layers of ego. My last experience was pretty intense. My first expe...

Anyone reads Eckhart's or any other awakened master's book, he or she would not need to do any further thing to understand it conceptually. I agree with those that spirituality is hard to grasp for the humans because it is opposite of crazy monkey mind humans way of living, but to understand it a pe...

There are different ways to experience the Universal Self and especially one of them is easier to describe it with the words-although it is not possible to completely to describe it because it is beyond form. I experienced many types of ultimate reality realization and one of them is easier to descr...

I found that external life became simpler in a sense of perceiving. What i do is way more complex compared to how/what I did before but at the same time it's easy and simple. But yes, just being is enough. Can't even describe that. Feeling that I'm at home now - always? Feeling at I'm home now- alw...

When the total disidentification from the mind happens, life really becomes very simple externally and internally because there is very deep peace and happiness in that state of being. I just experienced that kind of state of consciousness just few minutes ago(it is happening more frequently in the ...

Yes, it is possible to completely disidentify from the mind.A person can understand that permanent disidentification from the mind is possible with experience in spirituality-even before getting to that point permanently. But there is something even further than that. It is like getting to the top o...

Thanks for sharing this great talk with us. Another great talk about afterlife and NDE: What It’s Like In The Spirit World After We Die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekghf8c4nGM Note: To become free from the cycle of re-birth, go to the higher heavens and permanently return to the divine reality ...

Lovely comments, PureLand. You have kind of copied my style by quoting other teachers to make a point, rather than simple echoes. All that said, one could expand on your comments and say something like "living in bliss, there is no criticism of anything." But, of course we know that ET was critical...

All of the criticism drops away when inner peace is becoming the primary thing one's life. And even before the peace becomes permanent in one's life it is possible to go more and more in peace and contentment in such a way(more permanent, stable) that the person gives up all of the criticism for spi...

Great points Sighclone. The famous saying describes the reality as "Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is Form." The form is the temporary manifestation of the real(presence/being) which is the timeless dimension that is the present moment itself. If a person have glimpse of the ultimate reality, he or...