Spirituality Revealed

2 ‘authentically self deceived leftists. Tolle says a LOT of good things
coming from a pseudo guru. Huffington , well she also authentically
thinks she is doing good , underneath her calm confidence is a deep anger
and need to prove herself, NOT a judgment just a long term observation,
reading, watching and study of both of them …well that’s my bias for
tonight good night folks lol

Some of this stuff is quite new to me.

I’ve always thought of myself as just a bundle or collection of thoughts,
and to a lesser extent, feelings, sensations and so on. There’s patterns to
these thoughts, feelings and so on, and continuity, and those patterns and
that continuity, though imperfect, is what makes me, me. Furthermore,
my thought patterns, though similar other peoples thought patterns, are not
the same, and that’s what makes me unique The idea that I’m awareness or
consciousness, presence, underlying all these thought patterns, is
peculiar, I’m not 100% sure it’s true, it’s not a very western thought,
westerners tend to identify themselves with their thoughts, or with the
totality of their organism, everything in the mind/body, although our
language sort of confirms it, like when we say, my thoughts, as if thoughts
were things we owned, or possessed, rather than who we are. I’m going to
give this a lot of thought. As I tend to embrace this new notion of self, I
feel like I have more power, more control over my thoughts, like I’ve
detached or removed myself from them. They know longer own me, they’re a
part of me, or they’re in me, but they’re not me at my innermost core.
Thoughts are can be likened to furniture, furniture comes and goes, but the
space in which the furniture comes and goes, and the person occupying that
space, remains, until the organism perishes. Just as our house can be
cluttered with unnecessary and even toxic junk, and sometimes it’s good to
do a spring cleaning, so you can move about more freely, so you can add
more furniture, so too can our mind be cluttered with thoughts that are
more trouble than worth, that are taxing, and take a lot of maintenance,
and don’t do us a heck of a lot of good except to haunt us. All of this is
kind of becoming disciplined with ones thoughts, not identifying them, not
letting them rule you, and seeing that more is not necessarily merrier,
just as more food or drink or possession or whatever and pursuit of them
can ruin your life. We can be our own worst enemy sometimes, by
relinquishing our sovereignty, and being ruled by externals, man has a
tendency to excess in many of his endeavors, that has to be partly checked,
our thoughts and feelings can run amok. If the self is awareness, and the
mind and brain are on, and we don’t entertain substance dualism, then what
part of the brain is awareness? What does awareness in and of itself want,
does it have an agenda, or in order to want anything, does it need to have
thoughts, feelings and sensations, does it need content, in order to have a
purpose? There is much for me to ponder and research. According to Alan
Watts, we are the totality of the mind/body, which itself is intimately
connected with and an expression of all that is, the universe, but Tolle
seems to have a much narrower view of the self, interesting, I wonder if
they can be reconciled? And it’s interesting to see how both have been
influenced by eastern thought and zen, but took it in two different
directions. Who I am in the present moment is me, what I’m thinking and
feeling now is me, I don’t have to be loyal to a set of beliefs or
values… concepts come and go, feeligns come and go, the way we feel now
and think now, will not be precisely thew ay we feel and think tomorrow, so
just as we come into this worl dleave it with no possessions, we come into
this world and leave it with no thoughts, at some point we lose everything,
so we have thoughts without trying to idolize or possess them, we can be
excessively clingy, perhaps deficiently clingy sometimes, but usually
excessively clingy not only when it comes to people and possessions, but
thoughts, and perspectives, attitudes. Everything in cosmos changes, yes
are there are patterns and continuity, but the repititions are imperfect,
no two thoughts or feeligns or things or people or places have been and
ever will be identical. Just as possessions rust, and break down, and
become useless, we no longer need them, same with thoughts, a few
possessions we have our with us our entire lives if any, the avst majority
come and go, and it’s impossible to say which, if any will be with us our
enire lives, so we have to prepare to let all thoughts come and go, as they
become obsolete, outdated, as we can’t afford the energy required to
maintain them, or the space and so on, so we can have too many things, and
we can be too conservative, hold onto this one or that too much, too fast
to acquire new things and too weary of letting old things go, it’s this
desire too be so full, overflowing all the time, this tendency to have too
much of a good thing, to spoil life, to overconsume and produce everything,
mental and physical, things which are good at the right times and places,
but can become burdensome in the wrong times and places and degrees, and
things which don’t do us any good at all having them.

“Don’t wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful
relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you
are doing. That is success.
Eckhart Tolle and Arianna Huffington – Reimagine. Everything. Dreamforce
2014

My teacher, love him, thanks !

Was this in San Francisco?

Ladies and Gents, I give you the NEW SPIRITUAL GURU OF CORPORATE AMERICA:
Ariana Huffington. 

excelent intervirew.
#eckharttolle