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Originally posted by psycho81
Yes it's nice to hear his voice but after a while he makes me sleepy, not in a nasty way he just has one of them voices. So the book was much better for me, however the DVD's I have seen were brilliant
Originally posted by actuallynothing
but the mind cannot know this infinite "i" and it cannot talk about something it knows nothing of. mind cannot know anything of "no mind" as mind/thought/content exists within no mind/awareness.
anything conceptualized is an expression of ego. any thought considered "mine" is ego.
the "present moment" and "the now" are different words for the same thing, reality. they are both concepts in the mind and cannot exist in reality.
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
I see more and more people saying they need to block out the negativity, (depression, illness, disasters etc) yet, wouldn't this devolve your ability to handle it, ignoring it till you don't notice it anymore isn't solving the problem, it's...well, ignoring it. I'm not saying anyone is wrong or right here, I haven't read the Tolle books, but it was a general question, I believe to try and reach harmony, a balance between the light and dark, yin and yang, the control of negativity is my ultimate goal, not to block it out.
I hope I haven't offended anyone, this guy's view does sound interesting anywhere I can download the audio?
EMM
Originally posted by Mr Green
I have now fully read this book and found it so very enlightening and made total sense to me.
The fact the ego is a seperate entity from the self/being was a revelation to me. I found as I read the book page by page it made more and more sense to me. The things the ego does to stop us becoming enlightened, the pain it creates by constantly taking us away from the now into the past and future. It does this to keep itself alive, in a truely enligtened individual the ego dies, it does not want to die so it keeps us as far from the now as possible.
Originally posted by watchZEITGEISTnow
Originally posted by Mr Green
I have now fully read this book and found it so very enlightening and made total sense to me.
The fact the ego is a seperate entity from the self/being was a revelation to me. I found as I read the book page by page it made more and more sense to me. The things the ego does to stop us becoming enlightened, the pain it creates by constantly taking us away from the now into the past and future. It does this to keep itself alive, in a truely enligtened individual the ego dies, it does not want to die so it keeps us as far from the now as possible.
same!
Z