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| by Matti Destonian Freeman |
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Eckhardt Tolle - Nirvana is already
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPNjDo_tkRg
I watched this video of Eckhart Tolle
lately, and I am not surprised about the way he turns things back to
cnsciousness as the source. This can easily be done, especially when
you are dealing with uncertain people, defining themselves through an
uncertain and unsure mind. I was a reader of Tolle's texts and books
myself for a short period of time and I know how seductive this
notion of feeling comfortable with yourself as the observing
awareness is. At least from the perspective of a quite priviledged
member of humaninty where you actually have the space and time to
worry about whether you are awareness that is aware of itself or if
you are the feelings, emotions, the body or whatever it is
aware of. And I felt that way for some time, whenever I felt troubled
or worried about anything I told myself that I am just the awareness,
not that what I am aware of. I can identify with it, but I am not
what I identify with. So far so good, but what next? Does this
actually touch the cause of the 'problem'? Does this change anything?
And by the way, what does it help to tell someone who is on a path of
self fulfillment which is obviously a path of self interest, looking
for a comfortable state of mind/feeling/emotion or even a comfortable
state of awareness, that this awareness was all that is here or that
this was already the state of 'Nirvana'?
Tolle doesn't even touch the core of
the question with his answer but stated that the answer was lying
within the question. The question was 'how can I get there? I have a
longing for that state of being' and all the time he doesn't even
know what state of being this would be. It is a deception of the
mind, a trap that keeps you distracted from Life itself, from
actually living and accepting your very practical and physical
responsibility. It is a drugged state of energetically charged
emotional mind pills, the longing as well as the given path. You will
be drugged by words as Ideas that trigger your emotional body. And
Tolle's answer is that this state was already here, but that it was
overlooked. By what? By the same awareness that in his sense IS
Nirvana itself? Why should it then overlook itself? In order to keep
me looking so that I can buy more books that tell me what I already
have but just don't know how to see? This is all just a play with
words triggering different emotions and feelings within those that
are listening willing to adapt and be manipulated or lured into
another trap of the mind.
Awareness is Life, it is within Life as
your body. Your body is the main cause of your awareness, meaning
your consciousness interpretation programm, which is entertaining
itself through compiling the awareness input into a mind movie or
video game that comforts the individualized perception of yourself as
a seperate being. But all the time you are Life, the physical Life,
not seperate but in constant interchange with all other physical
Life. But within your state of mind, deluding yourself into an
alternate reality as your personality perception by consciousness,
into a higher state of being, seperate from Life as if you were just
an alien, an observer, you don't want things to be that simple.You
don't want to be equal, to have the same rights, limitations and
necessities as all other life. You have got to be special. At least
you have got to be something else than that what you really are, as
the human body, equal to all Life, responsible for yourself and your
perception, your interpretation of your own feelings, the personality
that you allowed yourself to become and for the consequences of your
interaction with the world. You'd rather imagine yourself to be
energy that one day will be set free from the burdon of Life and join
the universal cloud of energy, becoming all powerful and - of course
- immortal, while all the time it will be YOU as the perceptor, as
your personal awareness... Fascinating thing this consciousness,
isn't it. Comes up with great Ideas. But what purpose does it have?
Could it be possible that this consciousness, awareness or whatever
you may call it can be used as a tool by Life itself in order to sort
things out in a practical way? Could it be that the only real
decision we can make as this or within this awareness is to accept
our responsibility as life and use our abilities in order to provide
a solid and profound basis of equality for all Life here in this
existance? Does this really sound so absurd? Is this really so
ridiculous facing all the ignorant and self destructive behaviour of
mankind all around the world in the name of mystified thoughts,
mental concepts and beliefs which are just ideologies that have never
really been lived? Does it really serve Life in any way if we only
calm ourselves down in our minds, ignore all possible practical
solutions we could come up with if we committed ourselves to our
responsibility, and instead focus on being the mind, being
consciousness, being awareness?
It is just a belief and Life itself
shows very clearly that the physical, actual reality is not a belief,
but that those principles of life are substancially real and equally
important for all Life. When your body melts down to the earth, your
awareness is gone. It will vanish and die while Life continues, you
can't question that. We have solid physical proof. A 'dead' human
body becomes quite vital and turbulent when the 'awareness' as a
human 'personality' is gone. It does not vanish, it does not ascend
and it does certainly not care about it's awareness. It is, moves,
transforms and spreads as Life. This is what we can learn from Death,
and that is why death is so important, equally important as Life, if
not the very same.
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