acrobat74
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:05 am Post subject: Staying sane in an insane world (Eckhart Tolle) |
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Henry Makow just posted some great material from Eckhart Tolle's work that bears repeating:
| Quote: | Staying Sane in an Insane World
January 30, 2008
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
When we see a man talking to himself and gesticulating, we think he is nuts. But the main difference between him and us is that we mute our voices and gestures.
Like crazy men, we are always talking to ourselves: analyzing, planning, remembering, rehearsing, rejoicing, grousing or fantasizing.
According to Eckhart Tolle, 59, our habit of identifying with this voice in our head is a form of bondage. His bestselling book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment draws on many religious traditions to proclaim that spiritual liberation is detaching our identity from our thoughts and instead identifying with the experience of Being.
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"BEING"
According to Tolle, our egos are based on the voice in our head. However our real identity is the listener that hears this voice. Tolle describes this as "Being" or Universal Consciousness, a spiritual substratum which we all share.
Tolle defines emotions as the body's reactions to thoughts, positive or negative.
Enlightenment (or Liberation) is the "simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically , is essentially you and yet is much greater than you." ("The Power of Now" p. 12)
Tolle says that our anxieties are due to a feeling of unreality, separation and isolation, due to a failure to feel this connection. We try to compensate by having desires:
"All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am in my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I"...Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind...[and are] unconscious spiritually speaking." (31)
"The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it...the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain and suffering, and free of the egoic mind." (33)
The reason patriots get depressed is because we feel we are attached to the world functioning on a moral basis. We oppose the NWO but are helpless because the game is fixed. Tolle suggests that, while it is real, the NWO is just another mental abstraction. If it weren't the NWO, it would be something else.
He advises us not to judge or resist but instead to identify with Being, which if cultivated is a source of energy and truth. Pain is always some form of resistance to what is, some form of judgment, some form of negativity. He suggests we accept the negative and work with it.
"Accept--then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life." (36)
Tolle maintains that the concept of Time and the ego (mind) are inseparable. Imagine the planet devoid of human life; just plants and animals. Would time make any sense? The time is always Now.
"Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time, and paid brief visits to Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation..."(35)
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Illusion of the self anyone? 
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suraci
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:55 am Post subject: |
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The fascists amongst us would love us all to simply live in the now and accept the negative. I know many people like that. I know people who agree with much of what I think, but they don't think it can be challenged, let alone changed, and so keep their head down and hope it never comes to their door.
Problem is, history shows that eventually these scum turn their attention to everyone. They only start by attacking the dissenters, the questioners, the Muslims, the deniers. Eventually, they'll be targeting 5 year old children who say the wrong thing and indicate they may grow up to be doubters. This is what has always happened before, so it's better to head them off early and attack them before they grow all powerful. |
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Thermate911
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | keep their head down and hope it never comes to their door. |
Where I'm at right now that is not an option. Where they're at right now is supporting ongoing genocide.
Tell them that, show them some pictures of Arab, Semite children mangled and mutilated almost beyond recognition, mothers and fathers piled up in heaps, with soldiers laughing over their final indignity. Tell them their taxes are financing this entirely avoidable nightmare.
Tell them to effin WAKE UP to what's being done in their names and their apathy.
Slip DVDs full of this insane barbarity into their Daily Wails and Page 3's
Don't fall into the Qutb trap...
The solar power's about to go down again - bye bye...
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