Eckhart Tolle's Teachings and Shri Mataji's Self-realization are in perfect harmony

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Question:

Dissolving the ego is quite a scary business. When it comes to

complete surrender, it is actually quite difficult to do because

everyone wants to be an individual. Is individuality lost? Is there

any awareness of an individual self after awakening and what about

after physical death?

 

Answer:

When you say " individual self " , I assume you mean who you are in your

essence, your true identity. What is the essence of who I am? Is it

the flesh and bones of my body? Is it my memories, my thoughts, my

emotions, social roles? It is none of the above. Who I feel to be

in my essence - what some people call " my individuality " or " my

identity " , is felt to be something very precious, but what exactly is

it? It is the underlying sense of I Am, which is consciousness

itself. It is the only thing I cannot lose because it is who I am.

So we could put it like this: you will lose everything except

yourself.

 

You say: " everyone wants to be an individual " . I would just say:

everyone wants to be. Awareness of Being is self-realization.

Awareness of Being is true happiness.

 

 

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Question:

You realized the " truth " (I am referring to the permanent shift of

consciousness you have achieved) with no help from others. Do you

know of anyone who achieved the same by following your teaching

through books/tapes?

 

Answer:

for most people, the shift is not a single event but a process they

undergo. It is a gradual disidentification from thoughts and

emotions through the arising of awareness. Many people, through

coming into contact with the teaching, are now undergoing this

process, and some are already free.

 

 

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Question:

I have been wanting to ask you this for months- What are your

thoughts on the New Testament? It appears that you believe certain

parts were add-ons, or apart from the essence of the teaching. Are

there any parts in particular? And why?

 

Answer:

The New Testament contains deep spiritual truth as well as

distortions. Those distortions are of two kinds. Some are due to a

misunderstanding of Jesus' teaching, others arose because people had

an agenda (wanting to fit Jesus into their preconceived notions,

wanting to make converts etc.). At some point, if there is another

book, I may write about this in more detail. But you can find all

this out for yourself. When you are present, you access your inner

knowing and you will sense what is true and what was added on or

distorted.

 

 

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Question:

Is there any way in which your spiritual teachings may be applied to

everyday life? Can your teachings make us any happier today? How? .

 

Answer:

At the core of the teachings lies the simple practice of living in

the present moment. It is true, of course, that everybody already

lives in the present moment, but unfortunately they haven't noticed,

and they pretend that past and future are more important than now.

In reality, your entire life unfolds in the space of now. Nothing

exists outside of the now. So I am talking about making the present

moment conscious. That is also the quickest way beyond ego. Thinking

about past and future keeps feeding the ego. Past and future have no

existence except as thought forms in your mind, and when you become

conscious of the present moment, all the old structures of your mind

cease to operate. The mind is then no longer your master, but your

servant. A new state of consciousness arises: Presence. Instead of

denying the now – which is ultimately the ego's denial of life – you

accept it, acknowledge it, make it your friend instead of your

enemy. When you live in alignment with the now, you embody peace,

but you also embody power, the power of life itself. It goes deeper

than happiness.

 

 

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Question:

Why are we so afraid of stillness and silence? What can be created

from them?

 

Answer:

We are not afraid of stillness and silence, but the ego in us is.

The ego arises out of incessant mental noise. We love stillness,

because it is inseparable from who we are in our essence. Whenever

you enjoy anything deeply, whenever you experience beauty, love,

intense aliveness or creativity, stillness will be there in the

background, even though you may not be aware of it directly. True

creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes

conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to

be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

 

 

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Question:

One of the great principles of philosophy and psychology is: " Know

yourself " . How can I know who I really am? Which traps should I

avoid? And which tools should I use?

 

Answer:

The main trap to avoid is to confuse content and essence. The ancient

dictum " know thyself " points towards essence, your true identity.

Your name, nationality, religion, your opinions, political views,

material possessions, likes and dislikes, desires, fears, ambitions,

as well as your view of yourself as a success or failure, good or

bad – in fact your entire personal history and your thought

processes… all that is content. All content is subject to the law of

impermanence (as the Buddha already discovered 2600 years ago), and

if you try to discover who you are within the dimension of content,

you will encounter frustration again and again. Or, as the Buddha put

it, you will suffer. You suffer because you derive your sense of

identity exclusively from the content of your life. Another word for

content is form. That is what the ego is: identification with form.

When you stop identifying with form, the ego is no longer in control.

So, first realize who you are not (form) and what's left is who you

are. But then there is nothing left, you might say, but this is not

so. What's left is not form, but essence, which we could also call

inner space. The space out of which all forms come and into which

they disappear. The ancient Chinese philosophers called it the Tao.

It is beyond time. It is the eternal, the primordial I am.

 

 

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Question:

Many trends in psychology work to empower individuality, personal

differences, developing one's singularity and uniqueness, to develop

one's strengths and abilities through willpower. Is that compatible

with the idea of transcending the ego? Without ego, what is character

or personality reduced to? Is psychology compatible with spirituality?

 

Answer:

It is perfectly possible to develop strengths and abilities without

identifying with them and without inner dependency on the future

outcome of your activity. When you work without ego, there is a flow

of energy that is actually extremely enjoyable. When you enjoy the

present moment, the future outcome is not of primary importance. Ego

induced activities reduce the present moment to a means to an end and

are therefore stressful and ultimately frustrating.

 

As regards psychology, it alone will not get us beyond the

dysfunction of the human mind and cannot bring about the profound

inner transformation in human beings that is necessary if mankind is

to survive. Psychology is helpful, however, in teaching us how to

recognize the ego in its many disguises, so that it can no longer

deceive us and take us over again and again. What is personality

without ego reduced to? The universal dance of forms – fascinating,

but ephemeral - as fleeting as a cloud.

 

 

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Question:

What do we experience when we connect with our real self? How does

that experience change the way we live our own life?

 

Answer:

You no longer create suffering for yourself. Anger, resentment,

regret, grievances, anxiety, guilt, etc, which are all inseparable

from the egoic state of consciousness, no longer arise. And when you

no longer create suffering for yourself, you no longer create

suffering for others. You have deep empathy, not only with other

human beings, but also with nature and all life forms. You see all

life forms as manifestations of the one formless and eternal Life,

which is what you are in essence, and you can sense that essence not

only in yourself, but in all beings. In other words, everywhere you

encounter yourself.

 

 

 

, " Violet "

<violetubb wrote:

>

> Dear All,

>

> i would like to 'qualify' that, when i say that Mr. Tolle 'knows'

what he is talking about, and that this 'knowingness' is a gnostic

experience - that each one of us, is our own gnostic, i.e. we each

have our unique experience of the Silence, the Unity, the Divine,

within. It is the simplest form of a religion, that is not a religion

in the traditional sense. Yet in that form that is ever-flowing,

spontaneous, true religion just happens! There is nothing 'forced'

about it, and it is not 'owned' by anyone, because it 'belongs' to

everyone!

>

> regards to all,

>

> violet

>

>

>

> , " Violet " <violetubb@>

> wrote:

> >

> > Dear All,

> >

> > Appended is a talk on " Not Reacting " by Eckhart Tolle. You can

tell that not only is he speaking from his heart, but that he

also " knows " what he is talking about. That is what is called " gnostic "

knowledge.

> >

> > Enjoy the video!

> >

> > violet

> >

> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPg9DnMP2D4

> >

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