The Doorway into NOW – Eckhart Tolle
By accepting what is you become bigger than what is.
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher, public speaker and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now which has been translated into 33 languages.
This was my first encounter with the material of Eckhart Tolle and I had no idea what to expect. I had no background knowledge and therefore no preconceived ideas.
One has to be curious to watch through the first twenty minutes of this video as he intentionally employs long periods of awkward silence while introducing the concept of time being an illusion and an aspect of the world of form (the physical world). There is no past or future except as thought concept – there is just now.
Most people live only in the time bound state of consciousness trapped in the surface dimension of life and can never find happiness or a sense of fulfilment. Their minds are continually producing thoughts and most people have come to identify themselves as those thoughts made up of all their past experiences including both failings and achievements. This identity model gives the mind complete control over a person’s life condemning them to continual frustration.
Eckhart believes we are missing the real essence of who we are. He advocates moving out of a time bound state of consciousness in a Timeless dimension of consciousness which he describes as an awakening process. In doing so you find out that “who you are, at the most fundamental level, is deeper than any thought.”
This is achieved by quietening the judgemental mind and perceiving it as only a tool to enable one to interact in the world of form. You then move into as state of awareness of your physical being in the present moment accepting whatever reality presents itself in the world of form.
This does not mean accepting and surrendering to undesirable circumstances but rather the recognition of what is, as most of the time our minds resit and protests against what is. By accepting we gain the power to create in a world of infinite possibilities. “By accepting what is you become bigger than what is.”