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dimitri31
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 Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: Eckhart Tolle...awakening a new consciousness |
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There's been a lot of interest in Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. It's a best seller, and Oprah has created a webcast with Tolle to discuss the book with others around the world.
I've been watching tapings of the webcast on you tube. good stuff. Anyone know where I can find an English version of the book in Seoul? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:02 am Post subject: Re: Eckhart Tolle...awakening a new consciousness |
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| dimitri31 wrote: |
There's been a lot of interest in Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. It's a best seller, and Oprah has created a webcast with Tolle to discuss the book with others around the world.
I've been watching tapings of the webcast on you tube. good stuff. Anyone know where I can find an English version of the book in Seoul? |
Why don't you just order it from Whatthebook's website? I don't have that book, but I have Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now", "Stillness", and I have two DVD sets of his. I don't have "A New Earth". Basically, Tolle's thinking mirrors Zen and the Bhagavad Gita. You must live in the moment, free yourself from being enslaved by the mind, and have it be at your disposal, to be able to put your spirit into things..............
Tolle has many great ideas, I think. Again, that particular book is on the website. I also listened to a CD set that came after Sept.11th.
Tolle could be listened to by many posters.
On the CD set he talks about how Sept.11th didn't surprise him, it's part of the human consciousness. In this case, it just has the Islamic garb, but it holds the fears and anger and ego of many in the Muslim world, just as, I suppose, the Iraq War partially reflects the negativity America has gone through and Nazi Germany had Hitler as the manifestation of their anger and fears after World War I. Tolle talks a lot about freeing ourselves from the world and creating a new world, a new consciousness, that we must take responsibility of our thoughts and actions to save our planet. That's basically what you should expect to find in that book, though I haven't read it. I know Tolle....I would highly recommend the DVDs. They were a bit pricey. I watched some of the DVDs with a friend at a DVD bang.
Eckhart also talks about how we let things bother us, and our ego often has to find things wrong with others, the situation we are in, to have something to complain about....It relates to the pain body concept.
I would highly recommend Tolle. |
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dimitri31
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Why don't you just order it from Whatthebook's website? |
Thanks. I just ordered the book online and will receive it in 8-10 business days. It was really simple.
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| Basically, Tolle's thinking mirrors Zen and the Bhagavad Gita. You must live in the moment, free yourself from being enslaved by the mind, and have it be at your disposal, to be able to put your spirit into things |
Yes, I've been working on being in the present, aware of the "now", and it's been work. I've become aware of the thoughts wanting to distract my awareness of the present. Becoming aware that these thoughts flow in and out of consciousness, has been interesting (for lack of a better word to describe this experience).
I also highly recommend it to anyone. I bet 100% that this technique of being fully aware, being in the present, and not allowing the ego to take control will make living in Korea much more manageable. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| dimitri31 wrote: |
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| Why don't you just order it from Whatthebook's website? |
Thanks. I just ordered the book online and will receive it in 8-10 business days. It was really simple.
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| Basically, Tolle's thinking mirrors Zen and the Bhagavad Gita. You must live in the moment, free yourself from being enslaved by the mind, and have it be at your disposal, to be able to put your spirit into things |
Yes, I've been working on being in the present, aware of the "now", and it's been work. I've become aware of the thoughts wanting to distract my awareness of the present. Becoming aware that these thoughts flow in and out of consciousness, has been interesting (for lack of a better word to describe this experience).
I also highly recommend it to anyone. I bet 100% that this technique of being fully aware, being in the present, and not allowing the ego to take control will make living in Korea much more manageable. |
Dimitrios, you are quite welcome, parakalo. Have you watched the movie "The Last Samurai"? There is a part where Tom Cruise is trying to fight using a staff like weapon and keeps losing because he is a slave to his mind and thoughts, not focused on where he is... Then this Japanese fellow tells him "No Mind". In Buddhism, I believe, they called Mushim.
Most Christians are not quite aware that Jesus taught similar concepts and ideas, much of the Eastern thinking in Christianity has been lost to too many.
I like how Eckhart talks about the ego. For example, many of us argue and then forget what we are arguing about, it ends up more arguing to shore up our ego, and our mind takes us to a place of fear. When we argue with our girlfriends or someone else it also deals with fear, we are afraid of some kind of psychological death when interacting with that other person, and as the Tibetans who follow Bon say, we must walk the path of fear into serenity.
As far as living in Korea, it can be a challenge for us foreigners. We don't speak the culture, some of the irritations Koreans are used to, we are not, and it is a challenge to handle them with serenity, without letting the egoic mind take over, so we can tell each other stories and become quite dramatic. All of us are guilty of this somewhat, though no one should be treated unjustly and we must do things for our own good and be our own advocates... |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:20 am Post subject: |
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Basically, Tolle's thinking mirrors Zen and the Bhagavad Gita.
You must live in the moment, free yourself from being enslaved by the mind ... . |
All we EVER have is the now. Have you noticed?
Does Tolle ever speak of AWAKENED HEART? Reality is most of us are very selfish, deluded little creatures.
Be here now, fully & completely, yes. What other real state of consciousness ought one ask for or strive toward?
btw - "mind" is the solution, not the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia
Free yourself from the shackles of EGO 
Metta. |
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