Let's keep in mind this brilliant review of Tolle's teaching;
"I think of his offerings like someone on the other side trying to get our attention and convey an understanding to a species of half wits who are deaf and dumb and just can't quite get the obvious right in front of our faces. Hehe. It's like, "can't you just get this? Look at it this way. Or how about that way."
"I think of his offerings like someone on the other side trying to get our attention and convey an understanding to a species of half wits who are deaf and dumb and just can't quite get the obvious right in front of our faces. Hehe. It's like, "can't you just get this? Look at it this way. Or how about that way."
3) 17:22 The third recording goes deeply into the experience of Presence. What happens to the self, who are we in Presence?
0:30 What difference does being free of time make?
1:10 The core delusion; a situation, event or emotion becomes a personal problem and we suffer.
1:25 To be free of time means to release past as identity and future fulfillment
1:50 Once we glimpse freedom from time, we begin to move back and forth between time and Presence.
2:22 We become more and more able to choose Presence and for longer periods of time
2:50 Back and forth between consciousness and unconsciousness, between Presence and mind identification.
3:18 Most people move between different levels of unconsciousness
3:50 Unconsciousness means to be identified with thoughts and emotions, reactions desires and aversions
4:30 We are not aware of this (Ordinary) unconsciousness until it stops
Stop at 4:35 for this week
1:10 The core delusion; a situation, event or emotion becomes a personal problem and we suffer.
1:25 To be free of time means to release past as identity and future fulfillment
1:50 Once we glimpse freedom from time, we begin to move back and forth between time and Presence.
2:22 We become more and more able to choose Presence and for longer periods of time
2:50 Back and forth between consciousness and unconsciousness, between Presence and mind identification.
3:18 Most people move between different levels of unconsciousness
3:50 Unconsciousness means to be identified with thoughts and emotions, reactions desires and aversions
4:30 We are not aware of this (Ordinary) unconsciousness until it stops
Stop at 4:35 for this week
2) 43:57 Our second recording focuses on the mind strategies for avoiding the Now
"I hope this wisdom wakes you half wits up, can't you get this?"
In these recordings Tolle describes the major ways we avoid awakening and provides practical tools to awake us up though self observation, our relationship to time, working with our past in present time, what Presence is and how the power of Now releases us from the mind's identity as a separate self.
The simplicity and depth of his approach and the blunt directness of his teaching continues to surprise me even after years of listening to these same teachings.
The simplicity and depth of his approach and the blunt directness of his teaching continues to surprise me even after years of listening to these same teachings.