Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks and Shri Mataji's Thoughtless Awareness are

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, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

 

Dear All,

 

i just want to reiterate that what Mr. Tolle speaks from his own inner

experience is pure 'Shri Mataji' teachings, i.e. about the " Silence

Within " , but he speaks it from his " own " experience within, not from

an intellectual viewpoint. That is the difference! That is how

'knowers' or 'gnostics' speak. You can pick them every time, because

the words 'just flow' and the words 'just resonate'. It is the flow of the

Spirit within, that has no physical force in it, but only the force of pure

love, which is the greatest force in the world. Shri Mataji did say that She had

children outside of " organisation " Sahaja Yoga. She also said that Sahaja Yoga

was not Her only aspect. What do we make out of this? Shri Mataji's children are

not restricted to " organisation " Sahaja Yoga. Her children are all over the

world, even if they do not call themselves by a particular name, i.e. " Sahaja

Yogi " . After all, the word " Sahaja Yogi " means the person who has had their

" Union with the Divine " . That union can happen, even " outside " of the confines

of " organisation " Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji's teachings are Universal, and never

restricted to any " organisation " .

 

Jai Shri Mataji!

 

violet

 

 

> STILLNESS SPEAKS

> A book designed for meditative reading

>

> The essence of Eckhart Tolle's message is easy to grasp: If we

> connect to the stillness within, we move beyond our active minds and

> emotions and discover great depths of lasting peace, contentment, and

> serenity. With his bestselling first book, The Power of Now, his

> message has reached millions of people worldwide. Now, in his much

> anticipated new book, Tolle gives us the essence of his teaching in

> short, simple pieces that anyone can easily understand.

>

> Stillness Speaks is organized into ten chapters whose subjects range

> from " Beyond the Thinking Mind " to " Suffering and the End of

> Suffering. " Each chapter is a mosaic of individual entries, concise

> and complete in themselves, but profoundly transformative when read

> as a whole.

>

> Eckhart Tolle understands the spiritual needs of our time. He draws

> from the essence of all spiritual traditions, expressing these truths

> in startlingly fresh new ways. The result is a book that is

> paradoxically both ancient and contemporary, filled with timely and

> powerful messages. Stillness Speaks can be no less than an awakening

> for readers willing to give the words a chance to work their quiet

> magic.

>

> Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is not aligned

> with any particular religion or tradition. In his writing and

> seminars, he conveys a simple yet profound message with the timeless

> and uncomplicated clarity of the ancient spiritual masters: There is

> a way out of suffering and into peace. Eckhart travels extensively,

> taking his teachings throughout the world. He lives in Vancouver,

> British Columbia.

>

>

> Extracts from Stillness Speaks

>

> The transformation of human consciousness is no longer a luxury, so

> to speak, available only to a few isolated individuals, but a

> necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself.

>

> At the present time, the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the

> arising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically, things are

> getting worse and better at the same time, although the worse is more

> apparent because it makes so much `noise'.

>

> The book Stillness Speaks, of course, uses words that in the act of

> reading become thoughts in your mind. But those are not ordinary

> thoughts – repetitive, noisy, self-serving, clamouring for attention.

> Just like every true spiritual teacher, just like the ancient sutras,

> the thoughts within this book don't say, `'Look at me',' but `'Look

> beyond me'.' Because the thoughts came out of stillness, they have

> power – the power to take you back into the same stillness from which

> they arose. That stillness is also inner peace, and that stillness

> and peace is the essence of your Being. It is inner stillness that

> will save and transform the world.

>

> Silence and stillness

>

> When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with

> yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the

> world.

>

> Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from

> stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner

> space or awareness in which the words on this page are being

> perceived and become thoughts. Without the awareness, there would be

> no perception, no thoughts, no world.

>

> You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The

> equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

>

> Whenever there is some silence around you – listen to it. That means

> just notice it. Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the

> dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through

> stillness that you can be aware of silence.

>

> See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are

> not thinking. You are aware, but not thinking.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of

> inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of

> thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it.

> How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach

> you stillness.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still

> yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a

> oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling

> the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness.

> Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness

> underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is

> the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

>

> You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense

> perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the

> arising of inner stillness.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping

> your inner resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is,

> this acceptance also takes you into that realm of inner peace that is

> stillness.

>

> Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form

> it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief,

> silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a

> piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath.

>

> When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of `'something'

> becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure

> consciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with

> form.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity

> and solutions to problems are found.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> Is stillness just the absence of noise and content? No, it is

> intelligence itself - the underlying consciousness out of which every

> form is born. And how could that be separate from who you are?

>

> The form that you think you are came out of that and is being

> sustained by it.

>

> It is the essence of all galaxies and blades of grass; of all

> flowers, trees, birds, and all other forms.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then,

> it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> When you look at a tree or a human being in stillness, who is

> looking? Something deeper than the person. Consciousness is looking

> at its creation.

>

> In the Bible, it says that God created the world and saw that it was

> good. That is what you see when you look from stillness without

> thought.

>

>

> * * * * *

>

>

> Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the

> world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis?

> Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time?

>

> But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the

> ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed.

> Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual

> intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

>

>

> www.eckharttolle.com/stillness_speaks

>