Eckhart Tolle Biography: He brings a western understanding to enlightenment and consciousness. It is fresh, yet authentically pre-historically accurate
Eckhart Tolle Biography
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That is what his own website says about him. I would like to add to the Eckhart Tolle biography in a small way.
I can't argue with any of it nor put in a better way. Eckhart Tolle resonates with me as his understanding that the greatest obstacle (in western civilization at least) is the psychological ego. This ego is the image-of-self or self-identification that we all hold. We label ourselves and our environment. "I am clever, rich, poor, black, white, american, etc. etc" are all identification which gives us a sense of self. It either helps us to have a higher sens of self (i.e. better than others) or a sense of victimization (i.e. worse off than others).
Either way, the ego makes it about the self: ME! ME! ME! Agent Smith calls the human race a parasite in The Matrix. He is essentially correct, except that it is not the species but the mind objects called human ego. Humans are essentially conscious beings, but in our evolution we developed highly efficient brain organs, which somewhere in evolution allowed us to develop this self-preserving mind-identification what Tolle calls the ego.
His teachings are really simple as he illustrates the illusions that the mind brings to us as real. We worry about a future that does not exist as we can only experience THIS moment and so the future is imagined. We concern ourselves about the past as if we can change it, while we can only experience THIS moment. It is only the NOW that really exists.
I particularly enjoy this dissection of the ego as I also understand that the ego is essentially rooted in the subconscious and that the latter does not relinquish control that easily. It ALWAYS finds logical arguments to convince you that the energy is spending on self-identification, the future and the past has meaning and purpose. It has meaning and purpose only to the self-preservation of the ego and hence the subconscious' obsession with it. Reading the power of now and a new earth might just be the most life changing thing you could ever wish to do. Experience your ego's resistance, allow it and then live in the now.
While I do not live in the permanent awareness of NOW as Eckhart Tolle does, I have experienced it and know that it means freedom. Unlike him, who had a cathartic experience to become enlightened within a space of 24 hours, my process is more gradual with incremental dissolvement of the ego. I don't judge which is the better, but I do know it is easier to identify (you or your ego, I don't know??!) with my process than his, which can be intimidating. Do not loose hearth. Enlightenment is not and should not be an objective. Living in the NOW is.
As much as this is not comprehensive, this is my version of the Eckhart Tolle Biography.
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