Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

I experienced a similar thing for a while - it still happens occasionally but the other posters are right, it's the ego trying to worm its way into your spiritual practice. For me, feelings like that serve as a reminder to be present and transmute those feelings. Remember when connected to your true...

My boyfriend is not interested in the teachings of Eckhart whatsoever. He refers to it jokingly as 'spiritual crap', and we both laugh about it, as I can see how kooky the ideas sound! Most of my friends also laugh about it, but my spiritual idiosyncracies are one of the things they love me for :) I...

One of the main things I struggled with when I started using the inner body as a portal was my approach to it; it wasn't until about a year after I had read the book that I realised I was concentrating, focusing my mind attention on a particular part of the body and this was in fact suffocating repr...

It's funny how the mind comes in, when we're having a beautiful sense of presence through the inner body and it goes 'is this real enlightenment? Is this the proper thing? Don't teachers say we shouldn't manipulate attention? What about emptiness? Am I spiritually bypassing?' Presence is presence, i...

It sounds to me like you're in a spiritual trap and I'm very sorry to hear that you feel that way about life. But I think you've misunderstood what Tolle is saying. If you read 'A New Earth' he offers clarification about awakened 'doing' and how that might manifest in the world. I think it's in 'The...

That was an interesting article, thank you! you would be surprised how many doors God's temple has That was particularly interesting... I just worry that I'm falling into the 'spiritual addiction' that Adya talks about, becoming a bliss junkie and going into the body to avoid feelings of emptiness, ...

I'm at a similar time in my life too; there's a lot of focus on future as I'm slap bang in the middle of exam period in school. I'm not sure what university I want to go to, or even what I want to do afterwards, but trying to get there through thought isn't going to work, even though it's being enco...

Why do other spiritual teachers, such as Adyashanti and Gangaji, not mention things like the inner body? I can't help thinking that this is a manipulation of my attention and not 'true meditation'. Is the inner body something we have to let go of eventually? Or is it compatible with the other teachi...

So this reply is about two years late; I hope that whoever wrote the post will find this! The writings of Geneen Roth link food and spirituality, how when you eat too much or too little, you are reflecting the belief that you will never get enough, or that you do not deserve to eat. She advocates li...

Thank you for your post :) You're right, I guess it's just a matter of not getting sucked in. My thoughts seem to get more confused when I'm not present, so if I want clarity of mind I go into the body. I've been doing really well in my mock exams, just trying to be present and that seems to work; I...

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Perhaps if you hadn't been present, the situation would not have been resolved so neatly!

When I become present (using the inner body) during my studies, I feel as though I am doing things more slowly. This may be because there are not so many thoughts in my head which give the impression that time is moving quickly when I am working at the same speed; or I may be doing things physically...

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am tired of sleepwalking braindead without a sense of direction while everyone else around me has lifes, goals and are realizing their ambition. I think you're missing something here, or have fallen into a trap. If you feel your body and those feelings of fear, if you feel the radiant source of lif...

To be fair, by the sounds of it Eckhart is wealthy - I saw an interview that said he's made like £3 million! I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you told him :L However, pirate downloads might be contributing to the high fees for his talks, perhaps if Sounds True or whatever company (he doesn't control the...