Eckhart on Oprah 8
This week was the 8th of 10 classes Oprah is doing with Eckhart Tolle on his book A New Earth. They get better each week. I made notes on a few points that struck me. …
Category: Waking
Deepest Being
Back on the post How Deep?, I asked if it was going too deep to try and define what gives rise to existence in a blog format like this. In comments here and over at …
Really?
Back on Takuin, the discussion continues about being. His points drew out some further thoughts, worthwhile as a post… If the reader is ready, the message will be heard. If it reflects reality well, it …
Insight part 2
Last month, I wrote in Stroke of Insight about Jill Bolte Taylor’s conscious experience of a stroke. A fascinating presentation she gave at TED. While I disagreed with her understanding of the experience (brain hemispheres …
The evolving I
Tom has a great quote by Ramana Maharishi back on his blog. He talked about the difference between the false ‘I’ thought [idea] and the deeper true ‘I’ of absolute being. At first we seem …
What Awakes
In a discussion back at Tom’s blog, a fellow with bi-polar was asking about illness relative to spiritual progress. This turns out to be a perfect example of the difference between experience and being. If …
The Practice
The discussion in Spirit continues on Tom’s blog. Tom comes back to the question of practice. What role does a practice really have in our path if its really Self waking to Itself? What is …
Eckhart on Oprah continues
This week was part 7 in the 10 part free web classes with Eckhart Tolle and Oprah. They’re really getting into the core of it now, with this weeks chat on Who you really are. …
Stages of waking
From a recent discussion on an Adyashanti retreat in comments, here. I would say people often slowly approach waking, not really sure if they are or not, then there is the switch. The change from …
Finding a Teacher Pt 3
After speaking about a Teacher, then responding to comments about finding a teacher, I ran into some interesting pages today. Now, certainly, I’ve seen some of those guru-busting sites but they typically have a broad …
Layers of Awakening
In a recent post, More Eckhart, Tom commented about the sequence of ego loss and Adyashanti observing awakening as a two-step process. I thought it would be good to comment further on this. Awakening is …
More Eckhart
Last night, I watched the 6th class of Eckhart on Oprah. (from a download) I have not read the book. Actually I have rather a backlog of books to be read, and more lined up …