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Eckhart Tolle



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Eckhart Tolle (born 16 February 1948) is a spiritual teacher and writer



Biography:



Tolle was born Ulrich Tolle in 1948 in Germany. He lived with his father in Spain from about the age of 13 (around 1961) until he moved to England at the age of 19 (around 1967).

He had no formal education between age 13 and 22; he refused to go to school because of "hostile environment", but he pursued his "own particular interests" Tolle graduated from the University of London and did research at Cambridge University. He studied literature, languages and philosophy At the age of 29, Tolle experienced what he considered a spiritual transformation.

Since 1996 Tolle has lived in Vancouver, Canada.



Teachings



Tolle claims to have had a radical spiritual awakening at the age of 29 after suffering long periods of suicidal depression. This shift in consciousness for most people is not a single event but a process, a gradual disidentification from thoughts and emotions through the arising of awareness.

His non-fiction bestseller The Power of Now emphasizes the importance of being aware of the present moment as a way of not being lost in thought. Instead of you using your mind as a tool, the mind uses you.

In his view, the present is the gateway to a heightened sense of peace. He states that "being in the now" brings about an awareness that is beyond the mind, an awareness which helps in transcending the ego (false identification with form: body, mind, thoughts, memories, social roles, life-story, opinions, emotions, material possessions, name, nationality, religion, likes and dislikes, desires, fears, etc.) and "the pain-body", which is created by the cumulation of suppressed emotions, the suffering of non-acceptance of what is. Our true "identity" is the underlying sense of I Am, which is consciousness itself. Awareness of Being is self-realization and true happiness. We people are very important, because we are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold.

His later book A New Earth further explores the structure of the human ego and how this acts to distract people from their present experience of the world. You don't need future or future lifes to find yourself, and you need to add nothing to you to find yourself.

In the world of form for everything gained, there is something lost and for everything lost, there is something gained.

He recommends listening to the body when we eat, because the body knows more about food than your mind ever will.

He believes that the New Testament contains deep spiritual truth as well as distortions. Those distortions are due to a misunderstanding of Jesus� teaching, or because people had an agenda (wanting to fit Jesus into their preconceived notions, wanting to make converts etc.). But when you are present, you access your inner knowing and you will sense what is true and what was added on or distorted.[5]

The ultimate truth of all religions is the surrendered state of consciousness to the present moment. In Christianity it's the symbol of the cross; Jesus surrenders to the extreme limitations of the cross.

Love comes into existence when you know who you are in your essence and then recognize the �other� as yourself. It is the end of the delusion of separation, which is created by excessive reliance on thinking.

Influences

Tolle is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. However, in the book Dialogues with Emerging Spiritual Teachers by John W. Parker, he has acknowledged a strong connection to J Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi and stated that his teaching is a coming together of the teachings of both those teachers, and it is a continuation of that. In addition, he states that by listening to and speaking with the spiritual teacher Barry Long, he understood things more deeply.

At about age 15 he received five books that were written by a German mystic, Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, also known as B� Yin R�. Tolle responded "very deeply" to those books.

The first texts he came in contact after the awakening and found deep understanding were the New Testament, the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching and teachings of The Buddha. Influences which are alluded to in The Power of Now are the writings of Meister Eckhart, Advaita Vedanta, A Course in Miracles, the Bible, mystical Islam, Sufism, and Rumi's poetry, as well as Zen Buddhism's Lin-chi (Rinzai) school.





A note from Eckhart



"When you listen to these talks, please be aware that the informational content, helpful as it may be, is always of secondary importance. Beyond the information that is being conveyed, something deeper is happening. As you listen, a field of alert stillness arises where before there was mental noise. You enter the state of Presence.



This becomes possible because words that are spoken from a state of Presence carry an energy frequency that can awaken that same dimension of consciousness in the listener. Herein lies the power of all true spiritual teachings.



This is also the reason why many people listen to these recordings again and again, and find that the words are always fresh and new, as if they were listening to them for the first time.



If possible, listen to these recordings when you are not being distracted by other things. Know that, in the deepest sense, you are listening to yourself."



~ Eckhart Tolle

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