Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought patterns, those old …record(ings) that have been playing in your head perhaps for many years. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can.
#THE POWER OF NOW FREE#
The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity… The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity – the thinker. It’s almost as if you were possessed without knowing it, and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself. You are unconsciously identified with (the mind), so you don’t even know that you are its slave.
Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive… The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship… It is this screen of thought that creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion that there is you and a totally separate “other.” You then forget the essential fact that, underneath the level of physical appearances and separate forms, you are one with all that is… The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind… It also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering… This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. The greatest obstacle to experiencing this reality (is) Identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. (Identifying with the mind and the problem of thinking.) It is your very essence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence, the realization “I am” that is prior to “I am this,” or “I am that.” So it is only a small step from the word Being to the experience of Being… Nobody can claim exclusive possession of Being. It is impossible to form a mental image of (Being). Does it point beyond itself to that transcendental reality, or does it lend itself too easily to becoming no more than an idea in your head that you believe in, a mental idol?…
The only important question is whether the word (Being) is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.
When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt (experienced), but it can never be understood mentally… Don’t try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. But don’t seek to grasp it with your mind. This means that Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. What follows is a few selections from Chapter 1 to demonstrate this notion.īeing (or, as it is referenced at this site, core self or conscious awareness) is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. Rereading through Chapter 1, I was impressed that one could select portions of the material and have highlighted the essence of a satisfying and successful spiritual journey. By Eckhart Tolle, Selections from Chapter 1
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