Eckhart Tolle
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Meister Eckhart, Thirteen century spiritual teacher:  "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time"

Rumi: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire."

​Eckhart Tolle: "Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and  mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops, unless you chose to use it."
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1)  7:02  This first recording explores our relationship to time and the concept of being 'time bound' as a barrier to Presence

0:25 The time bound mode of consciousness...

1:55 Ask yourself is there joy, ease and lightness what your doing?   If not, time is covering up the present moment...
         
2:19 'How' is more important than 'what'...

2:47 Accepting 'What IS'

3:44 Non attachment to the fruit of your action, focus on the action itself...

4:12 Not looking to the future for fulfillment...

4:31 In the absence of psychological time you derive your sense of self from  Being, not from your personal past

5:10 Nothing in the future will save you or make you happy

6:40 Forms are born and die but you are aware of the eternal underneath the forms
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2)  43:57  Our second recording  focuses on the mind strategies for avoiding the Now
                           

Once you push 'Play' you can use your cursor to start listening anywhere you like in the recording 

Start listening at 22:28 and finish at 43:57  for this weeks discussion  (Page 82 to page 91 in The Power of Now)

​22:28  Examples of ordinary unconsciousness, catch yourself complaining

23:19  Unconsciousness is always denial of the Now

23:49  You have three options...

24:18  Keep your inner space clear

24:40  Sometimes it's better to just act, then you learn something

25:00  Working with fear

25:45  This is called surrender

26:10  Do it now or accept passivity. Don't create inner conflict

27:00  Wanting to be in the future

28:00  Working with the past

28:53  Die to the past every moment, you don't need it

29:10  Working with worry, projecting into the future

30:00  All you have to deal with is this moment

30:30  The resource will be there when you need it

31:08  Habitual waiting

31:50  Waiting as a state of mind, you want the future not the present

32:42  Life circumstances vs your life

33:40  Gratitude comes from being present with what IS Now 

34:55  If you are present you are never 'waiting'

36:00  Mind identification lives in 'time'

36:54  Life's outer purpose and inner purpose

37:25  Inner purpose has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing

37:45  Horizontal and vertical dimensions of time

38:00  The inner journey only has one step, this step contains it all

39:00  Outer purpose becomes a game to enjoy 

39:45  Outer purpose cannot give you fulfillment

40:10  Working with past conditioning

41:10  The past you need to work with will show up in the present

41:40  Only the Present can free you of the past, more time cannot free you of time 

41:55  What is Presence? Your consciousness liberated from thought forms

42:30  Observing yourself in the Present, there is the past in you!

42:50  The power of Presence dissolves the past

43:50  Don't seek to understand the past, be as present as you can be


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3)  17:22  The third recording goes deeply into the experience of Presence. What happens to the self, who are we in Presence?