Satsang with Eckhart Tolle

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Saturday, December 22, 2001 2:44 PM

[sufiMystic] Satsang with Eckhart Tolle

Thank you all of those who wrote to me. Those who are not interested

please use your delete buttons.Just to whet the appetite here is what

someone thinks about Tolle. [And the next post is an interview with

Tolle by Andrew Cohen.] Enjoy!With LoveJanMetta!! I just spent the

evening in satsang with Eckhart Tolle.

http://www.namastepublishing.com/tolle.html He is here for three

days, tomorrow being a 3-hour workshop, the others, satsangs. I kept

wishing you could be here. He is a little guy, unprepossessing, comes

in and sits down, completely ordinary, starts to talks in a soft

German-accented voice. Talked for 2 hours, no questions, with such

simplicity and in those two hours he placed before us the simplest,

most obvious way to BE. I personally was guided to be there as I have

been terribly sick for l0 days with killer flu and didn't think I

should go. But, around the time to get ready I found myself

absolutely moved to get up, get ready, get there and partake. I had a

quiet, but very deep realization that all those times I was in life,

listening to and following life in the moment, trusting and going

with whatever showed up, knowing that was perfect, was what he and

other teachers talk about as IT. As he talked, life just blossomed up

right in my center, and unfolded within and all around me with the

infinite beauty of a Bach cantata (which I love and am listening to

as I write). As you know, we are blessed (and sometimes cursed) with

all the Advaita teachers in the universe coming here, so I've heard

them all. None of them, not even the really good ones, have been able

to strip all the veils of confusion away and just Tell It Like It Is.

Why do people make it so complicated? Well, I don't mean to criticize

here. As a friend of mine says, it's just different flavors. But I've

been going to satsang, starting with Gangaji regularly since l995,

I've read all of Ramana, Nasagardatta, Ramesh, and others and I get

what they say. But, tonight I read Tolle's book [_The Power of

Now_]before Satsang while waiting (the first 4 chapters) and his

saying: Drop out of the mind by moving into silence and then listen

to what life presents and say Yes, cut to the chase. He said if we

remembered one thing from tonight he would like it to be relate to

each present moment as if it had been chosen by you. He speaks a lot

like a good college professor, quietly, simply, humbly but knowing he

knows and has something important to say, not teach, because he makes

it clear we know already what he is saying. He talked a lot about the

"little me" which wants to make all this complicated so it will keep

us busy learning and reading and going to satsang so sometime in the

FUTURE we will get it, the eternal carrot. I feel he is the last car

on the train, sort of the last recourse. When you get so tired of the

spiritual merry-go-round (which I've found even exists in Advaita) you

are truly ready to hear him. I've personally become so pooped by the

eternal waiting for realization that I had called a moratorium on

satsang and haven't been since Feb. I'm really glad because my mind

was quiet when he talked having used itself up by the search and

actually knowing it could not know this stuff. It was actually quiet.

Finally! It knows it's a Mystery. Anyway, he talked about much of the

stuff he writes of in his book. His presence is very quiet, very

simple. But, he has one of the most beautiful, elegant minds I've

ever come across, and I've come across come pretty great ones. At the

end, instead of taking questions like other teachers, he asked us to

just sit in the silence, in the now. And Being was simply there,

everywhere. Such bliss! Hope this report gave you a good sense of

what it was like -- next best thing to being there, I hope!Letter #32

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