The Negative Impact of Karmic Action | Eckhart Tolle on Karma and Reactivity 

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The univere is with you it will seem like all is running crazy but its not

Si Yes we take nothing with us when we depart but Love that has been given to all .....

I am so sorry, my friend, sending best wishes your way ❤

yikes! When you ask for patience and you get a line at the bank.

Why is this comment under every single Eckhart Tolle video? Please stop, it’s outdated now.

@@anshkhilnani2796 The reason why this comment is under every single Eckhart Tolle video is that there are new people visiting Eckhart's Channel on every video. The comment helps some people recognise the journey they have been on. Many people here have had similar experiences before fully awakening. 'They' are the various voices of the egoic mind. 'She' is the soul on the journey, the real self. You can also use the word 'He' if you prefer.

Well, i dunno where Ive been but I've never heard it before. I love it except for the word Evolving....I'd say Growing but that's already been used...Transforming. ..? Getting Stronger?

@@anshkhilnani2796 Speaking of being reactive! Just sayin......

@@hew195050 Hahahahah you got me!😝

Nice u watched a video today about stress hormones and that a hot bath increases oxytocin which is supposed to be what bonds families together but often they just trigger all the cortisol and adrenaline instead. Sounds like you gave her the scientificly beat advice out of your intuition! ❤

He’s lucid and doesn’t hide his understanding in obscure pseudo intellectual language. That’s why he has so many followers.

As I read of folks being more aware less reactive my heart says yes. I too can do that and be happy.

@@claudiakirk4696Weldone Claudia, it's the only way to react to folks like that. No reaction is the best reaction.

Hey Stephen! 💜

@@midnightblue2893Hello my dear friend, great to see you.✨💜✨

@@stephenflood3463 you too my friend I will write you back soon on your channel lol! 💜

im fat a bit, but at least not starving.

He was actually talking about the verses in Bhagavad Gita.

Blessings to you. It is a roller coaster indeed. Hang on in there kitty!

@@Padraigp Thank you so much for the encouragement. Best wishes to you on your journey, as well.

🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 genau SO gehe ich auch durchs Leben. Es "lohnt" sich . . .

@fred Everyone does

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He's a WEF shill.

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Sadhgurus book "Karma" is extremely profound and explains everything there is about Karma.

Religion is opposite to spirituality. Spirituality cannot exist in a religious mind.

Et l'été c'est moi 🌻

Absolument la même chose pour moi dans l'instant.

Not ideal, As long as the junk stays external I wouldn't worry too much about it all

I am so sorry you’re going through this.

@@Fintan33no. That is so difficult to deal with. She is responsible for her husband be he is not responsible for her.

@finn123sk8 but it's not he has a room in the house and the garage. It's a constant struggle to keep it out of the living quarters..he on top of this tore up our bathrooms 10 years ago and tore off the decks of our house. Put a temporary 6 x 6 platform up so we could step out the room it's off of. He is always telling me it's in my head I need to get over it..I don't have company come over anymore there is truly a. 4 ft path sometimes less than that to my front door. ITS mentally draing aproching my home..I'm trying to find ways to deal with it.But it's becoming very hard.

​@@christinamadvig1468 I feel you. I was in very similar shoes, became very reactive and finally bowed out of the marriage. You can't nor won't change him. It isn't your job. Meditate, pray and say/think positive affirmations. You deserve a peaceful life. Not chaos and uncertainty. Blessings.

There's clearly more to our reality than we (our biologic sensors, "antennae") can see. For some time, "quantum entanglement" has shown that there is some mechanism of existence that exceeds the speed of light. If two particles are entangled, observing one causes the other to behave as if it were observed. But, it happens instantly, not delayed by distance. (That's clearly some mechanism of reality that hasn't been discovered yet. Something that defies the speed of light which is supposed to be limit on anything that can happen.). Now the "delayed slit" experiment builds upon that incongruity. Observing one entangled particle late causes the other to act like it was observed _before_ the observation happened(!). It's like the observation affects the _past(!)_. This quantum stuff has led physicists to theorizing 10-11 dimensions to accomodate such a reality. We can barely comprehend what living one dimension above 3 would be like, it's beyond our ability to imagine 7-8 more above us. (The best way to comprehend this is to imagine being a 2D person living on a flat plane. All you know is forward/back, left/right. If someone tried to explain "round" to you, it would sound crazy. "Up? what?" You could actually even live on a 3D surface and never comprehend it (unless you walked far enough and ended up back at your starting point) simply because your vision can't see that far, to see the horizon drop off. That would be a shortcoming in your visual "antennae." You would exist rationalizing the limits of your experience. I think that's very correct analogy to our 3D existence. We can't see what's beyond. Our "antennae" (sensors) are blind. We perceive more than snails & slugs. But, in the scale of things, not that much more.).

I doubt that the WEF has good intentions however. Doesn’t seem to be so. When you open your third eyes intentions become really clear.

It's hard to navigate domestic disputes. There can be _years_ of toxic dysfunction (practiced unconsciousness). It could be second-nature to them, and they get something from it, triggering each other for reactions, pushing the limits of what is or isn't violence to each other. If they get something from it that way, then an outsider is "breaking them up." You challenging the husband could be like assaulting the average wife (in their heads) when nothing's happening between them. I always remember an old "COPS" episode where they're called to the stereotypical trailer park. Wife has obvious signs of being roughed up. She's telling the police what happened. She's really mad at the husband. It happens all the time. When they arrest the husband, put him in the car, take him away. She's "No! No! Don't put him in jail! Don't worry baby, I'll make you're bail!" (probably a reference to "working the streets" that night to make the money, which would only further inflame him that his wife's going to be with other men). You just never know how out of their mind(s) people can be in a relationship. Best thing is to to observe. Call the police. Laying down your life for another can be a very conscious act. There is a buddhist teaching about a monk who allowed a tiger to eat him, otherwise her cubs would starve to death. One life for 8 lives? (The 60s anti-war immolations used that as justification.). Just because your life is threatened doing the right thing isn't necessarily antithetical to being conscious & doing the right thing. But, domestic disputes are hard to know what's the right thing. There can be a lot of mutual "egging on" of each other.

@@markfuller thank you for the reply, yeah it seems like something similar. I didn't realize to after but the encounter was in front of a funeral home. Could have been a family issue, who knows. But thank you for helping with the learning part of live and learn

That would be unique

You make a good point about the contrast or contradiction of the message compared to Eckhart's reported $40m net worth & $4m/yr compensation. But, that really doesn't change the the truth of the teaching, its recognized benefit (for centuries via Lao Tzu, the Buddha, et. al.). It doesn't have to be the either/or proposition you outline. It's very true that we tend to worry, identify with things that aren't us, can't be changed to the detriment of our existence (even stealing away productive thought about how realistically NOT to be in this situation next month). If you're homeless, hungry, broke, obsessing about that isn't going to change it. One can still find bliss in whatever circumstance they're in (make lemonade from lemons). Either leads to "the law of attraction" (or "manifestation"). Having a pity party in your mind about how things should be different, resenting what is is liable to lead to more of the same (whereas, acceptance, doing what you can to move forward leads to more of that outcome). The risk of looking at it as you do is that it puts the teacher ahead of the teaching. There's other teachers who taught (or teach) the same thing more by example (lower prices, less accumulated wealth). Does Eckhart invalidate them? Nobody's going to be perfect. But, the teaching is directly experienceable. It doesn't require faith or going "all in" with a personality. It's the ego that makes things either/or that way because it doesn't want to hear the message. It gets something from pity parties & expecting a different life/experience. It's a stealthy form of narcissism that doesn't really improve things (just feeds the ego's sense of entitlement to a different reality). The alternative (following the teaching) rarely goes to the opposite extreme you describe ("don't worry, be happy."). The truth is called "the middle way." You can take steps for a better future. This moment doesn't dictate how the future will be. Dwelling on the unsatisfactory'ness of the moment is wasted effort. What is can't be changed (usually). The only thing productive to do is "what can I do now to reduce the likelihood the next moments will be better?" Even that has to be realistic. (Playing the lotto probably isn't realistic. It contributes to disappointment when the odds are stacked massively in favor of disappointment.). These become patterns of existence that reinforce the existence, not productive, conscious change.

@@markfuller and he goes on making fun of the most influential political and social thinker in history. 😂

@@mateslami You're referring to @3:40 ? (Sarte?). I guess if you want to see it that way. I think it's true that other people annoy us, or we find a compulsive need to judge and be annoyed at people. It's just a different way of seeing the same thing. Not mocking, just _explaining_ why that is. For example, "I think, therefore I am" was said by Descartes. Dada Gunamuktananda refers to that by saying "when I stop thinking, I _really_ am." Is he mocking Descartes, or building upon a truth (encapsulated in the naming of our species as "sapiens," knowing? Does it take thought to know & be wise? Does thought cause suffering and is unnecessary to being?). Pascal comes to mind, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Is he invalidating the other great thinkers? I get the impression you ego is finding ways to not hear what's being said. That's ok. We all do it until we can't make it work anymore.

@@markfuller no the German bearded guy.

@@mateslami @9:20 Karl Marx? What Eckhart describes is true. Taken religiously, it has turned into the saviors oppressing the masses. I.e., there is no recipe for an ideal world. It's always "the middle way." Marx wasn't wrong, just as Adam Smith wasn't wrong about capitalism. It's just that when the letter of their teachings is taken as gospel, the spirit of the teachings tends to be lost. The same can be said about awakening, teachings, teachers. Over-identification with pointers (as being literal), or a single teacher (worshipping the person) can result in unconsciousness. Leading up to @9:20, Eckhart talked about "good intentions" can be produce negative karma (saving others from themselves in a way that alienates them from the truth). That resonated with me (and what I'm doing with you.).

I've seen videos where he talks about that. Basically: it's good to change what you can. But, most people are overly-consumed by one topic (of many) in ways that they aren't affecting change (just identified with the topic). It's a tough issue because the common refrain is: "how can you not care about [fill in the blank: wealth inequality; climate change; violent crime; dictatorship government; animal welfare, etc.]" There's a difference between beating one's self up caring when it's not leading to change, just a "cause" to identify with (among many causes worth care & change). His (and others') point is that if we are more skilled at being conscious (when we can't affect change) we can affect more change through that contribution. If everyone were less reactive to things they can't change, more present (if we taught mindfulness to children in public school, for example), we'd be talking a more common language, less frustrated about injustices, less effort needed for change because things wouldn't run off the rails as far as they do when so many members of society are unconscious (even with good intentions).

@markfuller that's what the creator of Das Kapital (chuckle, chuckle) had in mind, too: creating a society where accumulation of wealth was not at the center. We could teach our children THAT.

@@mateslami Except that there's more than one "cause" like that. :) Being conscious, in the moment, aware of whether the mind is occupied with what can't be changed can influence all causes. All causes when pursued unconsciously tend to lead to being the very problem they purported not to be. Animal welfare, for example, often leads to humanizing dogs, unrealistically high standards, judging other people who aren't 100% on board (i.e., letting perfection be the enemy of good). In the end, it's like a inner-circle of people protecting their turf, killing dogs because that's humane compared to someone less than 100% humanizing having a dog. Those inner-circle people aren't happy except that "I'm not one of them." It becomes an identity. (They make themselves sick dressing dogs up unwanted dogs in costumes, pandering to human emotions. When an adopter gets a dog home & realizes it's not Zsa Zsa Gabor, they return it to the rescue/shelter. Then the purists grouse about what a bad person that adopter is.). That's a perfect example of "the road to hades is paved with good intentions." They're convinced nobody cares more than them, and they're often the worst thing to happen to dogs. I'm not terribly political or polarized. I tend to see all sides. I'm not familiar with Marxism, but isn't it true that it tends to turn out like that dog example whenever it's implemented ("purely")? I trust that you know more about this. But, it has seemed to me like it turns into an inner-circle of "betters" with privileges that the average person doesn't, convincing themselves that they're doing god's work for everyone else (and not tolerating divergent opinions on that topic). Free-marketeers do the same thing. There is no truly free-market world (it tends to be socilalized capitalism, and tends to go wrong the further toward pure capitalism that it goes. Likewise, the further socialized it goes.). I'm agnostic about it and feel, again, like the "middle way" is the answer. Ideologies tend to pursue unrealistic perfections that end up being corruptions? Anyway, that's the sort of thing I've heard Eckhart talk about in terms of "yeah, change what you can. Just be aware of being too consumed by what you can't. Don't crowd the moment with unproductive rumination. The first priority should be being awake, aware (not overly identified, on a crusade leading nowhere).