"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally." - Echkart Tolle.

There are many reasons why an enlightened person would like to make changes: to practically help others, to serve the divine plan, to use the energy more economically and so on. But he/she never does this obsessively or fanatically, but calmly, never losing Presence and inner peace.

Wow! I have been grappling with this issue for a hell of a long time. Thanks Eckhart! Btw really this teaching has much to do with the middle way in my thoughts, I have been grappling with the situation along the lines of "why should I cook dinner? Why should I eat? Why should I do anything? Why shouldn't I just lay in bed or sit in a chair and stare at a wall all day?" I realize now that even doing nothing is doing something, therefore I might as well do something that will make me more comfortable on different levels. This means getting up to eat, all the way to preparing for something, such as working out at the gym or going to school, even if these activities do not result in what you expected there is no reason to not try. One should also be careful of indulging in too much. I would say it is a more advanced thought, if you could call it "advanced". To me, one must have experience in dropping their thought body first. Cheers

The Middle Path - not remaining in the same situation forever, nor constantly changing life situations as some kind of imagined necessity for inner peace. No extremes, no this or that, but the middle path.

We all still have our training wheels; We all have far to go; We all have momentary blips; There's things we've yet to know. Some days, they can be wonderful; A drift upon the breeze; Others we do struggle, Can fall down to our knees. For we all still have so much to learn, And still a hill to climb, But as long as love stays in our hearts, All will work out fine. So what if you aren't perfect, That was not the plan; You're here to enjoy your life, As human as you can. So drink that wicked whiskey; Smoke your pipe of peace; Don't worry if you struggle still, With human wants and needs. Your house is looking messy? Your children running riot? Yet, under skin, you've grown within, You've found your blessed quiet. Each on a separate journey; Some further than the rest; But all of us still loving life, And living it our best

I think its nice when people struggle and eventually find their own enlightenment,just like ekhart tolle did. Its nice to hear from people like eckhart, but really you cant learn to surf by reading or book or listening to someone talk about it, its much more beautiful and surprising when you come to the state of mind yourself. But i guess it doesn't really matter how it happens, he is spreading the word that such a thing exists.

For fun, adventure. Peace is not oblivion. We do not drool and soil ourselves rather then to stop a peaceful meditation and use the bathroom (unless it was a reeeeally peaceful meditation!). The balance of blissful peace of mind is to do what you can when you can. A most beautiful flower falls on the wind before your eyes. Do you not look? Do you not be in the experience of seeing the flower simply because you do not need to be reminded of it's beauty because you are already at peace?

This is a question I’ve been pondering for many years!!! My answer that I kept coming back to was that you would then just be doing things for the sake of doing them / to create an experience that would serve to further your expansion/ for enjoyment. I consider myself to be enlightened - I am certain that I had one of these kundalini awakenings many, many years ago. Much love Eckhart and can’t wait to see you in June !

Thank you Mr Tolle. Love you always 🌸🌿

i love this man he is so smart

His voice is so mellifluous and soothing it almost put me to sleep.

Eckhart Tolle you are amazing thank you so much for sharing your amazing words of wisdom with us for that we are immensely grateful.🙏💖❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏👏👏🙏🙏❤❤🙏🙏

Besides our ego, I think it's also important to remember to "surrender" our beliefs, and even more importantly, our fears to the light of pure conscious awareness, as well. Fear and belief are both big contributors to propping up the ego, and they need to go if we are to be free from ego. Cheers.

On the surface, choice seems to operate. However once the sense of being a person is less prevalent, it seems that free will does not operate. There is a feeling that there is some kind of invisible guide which makes actions happen and you are just going along for the ride. The strange thing is that there is tremendous peace in this because it seems as if effort is not so much needed in daily living. The perception is sharpened as choice is eliminated because the ideas of like and dislike do not interfere. Yes, on little things like chaining the seats on a bus , choice continues to operate. However as Eckhart says the effect of the choice does not eliminate the sense of peace that is always there in the being. There seems to be a different kind of action which does not have a personal motive which is operating in daily living. You are connected, as it were with a universal will which is not personal. This makes living much easier and heightens perception in every area of daily living. You continue to make mistakes and many things continue to fall apart, but you give them less significance. You know somehow that you are connected with a much larger being. I don't know if there is any such thing as an enlightened being because without the sense of being a separate person, what is supposedly "enlightened" is simply the space or energy field that inhabits the being. It is not a separate person and does not manifest individually!!! It is full of light and luminosity and empties the being from the sense of separation!!! google.com/+WilliamGainessky

Exactly the video I'm always finding,thanks so much...Before this,I'm always scared of enlightenment.

Helpful, thank you ☺️

Profound wisdom. Eckhart rules. Period...

In terms of changing a habit after enlightenment, something tolle still hasn't discussed to my mind - swapping seats on a bus is not the same as changing a habit that's built up for many years! How would affirmations fit in? Because it seems to me that they are a tool kit that only the egoic mental system can make use of, i mean i've tried, I've said: "I can do it!" "I'm able to do it!" But they just don't mean anything to me anymore, because what that's really saying is "I can do (this behaviour)", "I'm able to do (this behaviour)". However my perception (since sudden enlightenment) is that i'm not doing any of my behaviour, i can't even view it as MY behaviour, because the behaviour comes from thinking and I don't perceive myself as DOING the thoughts, rather i percieve myself as observing the thoughts/feelings as they 'flow through me'

It happens to me . I was at peace in a harsh place then I had a wrong feeling that If I stay at peacethis way I wont change but I left the place after all.

how do you disconnect yourself from the outcome of some situation? is there a video about that?

WoW WoW ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you so much

Take the path of least resistance. I guess if one is rooted in peace this can also be called intuition. There's no reasoning, no planning, no real choice, it just happens.

People want to change the world so that they're more comfortable in it. When the illusory self is no longer there then the demand for change within is no longer there and when the demand for change within is no longer there the demand for change without is no longer there.

Can I please have the name of the music at the end of the video?

If there is any such thing as an elightened person they'd have no way of knowing it. And the demand for change is completely gone regardless of the situation.

يا سلام

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I feel so lost with some of this stuff, is it that I'm just so far away from this thinking that I can't understand?

Il Mondo è piccolo e Noi siamo grandi

Don’t trust your mind, trust your teachers mind cause he’s sharing his mind 🤣🤣🤣

that's the one where i disagree with echart when you want to climb the ladder of life, that's where you listen to the ego, because the ego is there for e reason echart is a very wise man and he has enlightened my life; however he's old and he cannot sympathise with the strife ascociated with the life of a youngster where he has his whole life ahead of him what i'm saying is it's good to be at peace, however understand that ego and negative thoughts have a reason for existng too, dont't ignore them; listen to them as they are your inner manifestations for improvement

Why wouldn't you recognize yourself in the drunk person next to you and feel deep love and compassion? Maybe he is covering a deep pain by drinking and talking.

So ... It doesnot matter whereever he sits, thats the place we are going to call: beautifull!?!

if you are enlightened you don`t need to change. change is gudgment. its dualistic aproach of mind. to chose is mind, move without choice acceptance without acceptance of what/wich road of live shows. enjoying meetings and only seeing beaty and gift of all its part of you, its your creation/miror and onness with all nothing.

However, unlike the Buddha, St. Francis went from the wilderness back into a cave. In other words, a "worse" surrounding environment. This occurred after going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He returned to find that his followers had increased from less than a dozen to over two thousand- many whom wrote their own rules. To me, it seems that solitude is the key to peace. The ego cannot survive without society. Find peace wherever you by being a recluse.

69th comment! Hype!

Enlightenment is to know the difference from good and evil, you will be surprised how few know, what’s what? 😅😂🤣😇