- 06 Jun 2012 20:56
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What do you think of Eckhart Tolle, OMH? His book is the Power of Now, it can be found on google.
He writes of God:
'The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed at the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it as if they knew what they were denying.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism
It is the same as Being ('Buddha' means Being in sanskrit), and it is tied in with your concept of what you call 'real' or 'real moment', OMH. But it cannot be described with words alone, it can only be experienced.
'Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the miriad of forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and destructive essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt but it can never be understood mentally. To regain awareness in Being and to abide in that state of 'feeling-realisation' is enlightenment.'
The mind, the ego, the self, are all the same thing, those thought processes that we become immersed in and falsely recognise as our identification. Being is our true essence and it has no thoughts, recollections, emotions or values, it is nothingness and because we all share this nothingness and it is the basic property of the universe, that is why it may be called God.
Thoughts are projections based on our perception of the world, they are future oriented (projecting an imaginary world that does not exist and either will not exist, or have yet to exist) or past oriented (projecting an imaginary world of what has been, as far as we can remember it, not what is). The future creates pain and suffering, because it is either worrying about a world that has yet to exist, or it is reflecting on the imperfect nature of Now, wishing for a better world rather than accepting the present as it is, Now. The past creates pain and suffering, because it is either wishing for a better time that no longer exists, or it is dwelling on missed opportunities and lack of fortunes that we never deserved. So, by nature, Being, if it is not thought, must be attuned into the Now, the nothingness and absence of time that is all around us in the present moment.
It is your real moment, OMH.
He writes of God:
'The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed at the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it as if they knew what they were denying.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism
It is the same as Being ('Buddha' means Being in sanskrit), and it is tied in with your concept of what you call 'real' or 'real moment', OMH. But it cannot be described with words alone, it can only be experienced.
'Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the miriad of forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and destructive essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt but it can never be understood mentally. To regain awareness in Being and to abide in that state of 'feeling-realisation' is enlightenment.'
The mind, the ego, the self, are all the same thing, those thought processes that we become immersed in and falsely recognise as our identification. Being is our true essence and it has no thoughts, recollections, emotions or values, it is nothingness and because we all share this nothingness and it is the basic property of the universe, that is why it may be called God.
Thoughts are projections based on our perception of the world, they are future oriented (projecting an imaginary world that does not exist and either will not exist, or have yet to exist) or past oriented (projecting an imaginary world of what has been, as far as we can remember it, not what is). The future creates pain and suffering, because it is either worrying about a world that has yet to exist, or it is reflecting on the imperfect nature of Now, wishing for a better world rather than accepting the present as it is, Now. The past creates pain and suffering, because it is either wishing for a better time that no longer exists, or it is dwelling on missed opportunities and lack of fortunes that we never deserved. So, by nature, Being, if it is not thought, must be attuned into the Now, the nothingness and absence of time that is all around us in the present moment.
It is your real moment, OMH.