I think once exposed to the truth, it's quite easy to get stuck in a loop of feeling times of peace, then thinking about how to get back to that piece, which, of course, is counterproductive. How do we break out of the loop? Do we live for moments of peace? Or face the true unknown of what we know to be true. Do we find peace in our pursuit of peace? Ah!
@@jakegggggggggggg excellent questions Jake, it is very easy to fall into the trap of thinking peace is the norm and feel something must be wrong when your not experiencing it, but I read somewhere once " restlessness is the nature of the mind". Maybe we should accept peace and restlessness as the norm rather than become obsessed with the pursuit of endless peace.
I read somewhere once, that we don't need to fix our minds because our minds will take care of themselves, it's our relationship with our minds we need to change. Reading your comment on here yesterday reminded me of this and helped realise that maybe I still make life difficult for myself sometimes. Thanks Jake 👍
We can develop a meditative mind that is consciously choosing which thoughts to engage in. The mark of a master is the knowing and practice of the understanding that a thought is just a thought and you do not have to do anything with it. Thank you Eckhart, -Much love from a growing RU-vidr
growing up as a jehovahs witness, not thinking / meditating was viewed as a major threat! to meditate was viewed as emptying your mind and making space for the Devil! I lived with this dogma for too many years. Now im on an actual spiritual path as an exjw
The j witness have many practices that are harmful,a friend finally extricated herself after discovering how badly her life was affected. Their dogma is devoid of logic and common sense, a so called made up religion by a man.
The technique of "predicting" the next thought/feeling/perception/etc. is quite powerful! Intellectually it is quite obvious that you cannot do it but experiencing it is something else
You say it is quite obvious that you cannot do it. An easier method is just waiting for the next thought.With alertness it will take a while and it is very calming.
If you you simply notice your thoughts without getting involved with them,over 3 or 4 days you very quickly realise just how repetitive they are and the patterns that have been formed within our automatic thought producing minds over a period of time. then you can sometimes predict what comes next, like the story about where you lose your job its usually followed by the one about what you would lose next should that unhappy event happen.
2/16/22 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉, Eckhart! Wishing we could bring you your favorite 🎂 all lit up with the Light of Consciousness. You have made millions of us as happy as an alert cat watching a mouse hole. It's so WONDER-full not to be thinking. THANK YOU 💓 for coming to Earth, and ☝️ the Way. 😻
I love this! I believe that we are beings with multiple dimensions and therefore, it is so important to explore how we can exist with and without thinking. And we can still choose to use our minds to navigate our lives and have all types of experiences while being connected to the deep truth of the here and now. Thank you Eckhart!☺❤
You know that feeling when time just seems to stop, and you feel this warm sensation in your body, just like you would be slowly drinking a warm tea on a peaceful winter day? 🍵 I wish you, the person reading this, will experience this feeling today, so you can once again connect with your true self and feel gratitude for your existence. Much love from a fellow soul ❤
happy new day love God. I am here on Urantia Earth as the essence of god consciousness ID ego being the I am Christ within me made whole body, mind, soul experiencing life as a human being personality being God. I give thanks that it manifest under grace in a perfect way by Providence Devine right love. In the presence of Jesus Christ God I bless The grand universe's All world's with in I give thanks that it manifest under grace in a perfect way by Providence Devine right love. I am experiencing God as never before as I am now, I give thanks that it manifest under grace in a perfect way by Providence Devine right love. My mind is the center of Devine operation by Providence Devine right love. sovereignty now.... I respect your, everyone's else's sovereignty. I respect the sovereignty of all I will encounter meet and I allow them to respect the sovereignty in me I give thanks that it manifest under grace in a perfect way by Providence Devine right love. Machiventa Melchizedek The consciousness of a victorious human life on earth is born of that creature faith which dares to challenge each recurring episode of existence when confronted with the awful spectacle of human limitations, by the unfailing declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it, a part of the Father-Absolute of the universe of universes. And that is “the victory which overcomes the world, even your faith.” the urantia book teaching's I give thanks that it manifest under grace in a perfect way by Providence Devine right love. Lite and Life 🧬 I freely forgive anyone every day in love. I cast My past EGO Resentment to the Christ within me I go on being Free, I give thanks it manifest under grace in a perfect way by Providence Devine right love.
Thoughts are isness though. Dont stop thinking. Theyre enlightenment as much as breath or bird singing. If you try stop thinking you miss the isness and hence awakening.
Beautiful, Eckhart. Thank you for allowing us to get a taste of not-thinking. Though brief, it was Silence that I experienced. I will sit with this as much as I can and as often as I can.
❤️❤️❤️I love this exercise. Second exercise I began to see three green golf size energy balls on my wall. The third time ,as I have now moved into my bedroom, I closed my eyes and saw a shape of a slightly angled ♦️filled with space ,and then opened my eyes and there was, a shape ♦️outlining Your face. Perhaps very quickly in the beginning my thought was “how beautiful ,“pertaining to the orbs ,and how interesting for the others. Immediately after - No Thought
I can stay in non thought for quite a while buy when I come back, my problems are still there. How do I fix the many issues in my life if I don't think? Because I still think the same about them when I come back to thinking.
When an over active mind prevents you from taking one conscious breath, a variation of this question/technique can help -- "I wonder when I'll take my next breath?"
I like what you say that thought is "rarely needed" - I hope at some point to experience this kind of clarity - perhaps thought actually isn't needed at all given that our fundamental being has nothing to do with thought.🙂
I will be patient and trust in divine timing for all things in my life. I will let go of attachment to specific timeframes or timelines for things to unfold in my life and allow the Universe to guide the timing instead..
Become a master by watching a cat watching a mouse hole. Realize you are still alive by not thinking. Be alert like a cat. Thanks Eckhart. 🏄♂️🎢⛷⚽️🍕😎🍓🌷🤩🐂🎪🌏🎖🎆
I feel most of the time that I don't even have a Thought Process, it's as if I'm just above my Head Observing everything through my Human Eyes.?? It's quite an Experience, kinda Weird sometimes.!? Even as a young child it was like that but not for long periods of time like it is now as an adult. Thank You For This Video.! 🙏🏼
It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment; Hebrews 9:27 RV But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 RV For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16 RV Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38 RV Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:5 RV For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. Romans 8:14 RV He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:36 RV Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7 RV For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, Hebrews 10:26 RV Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many be they that enter in thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few be they that find it. Matthew 7:13-14 RV Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him. James 1:12 RV Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 RV And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come. Matthew 24:14 RV
The biiggest lie ever told by this guy. Whi made this guy the guru of our time. He has put together stuff fro every religion is the world and has made it his own. False teacher. Bunch of word salad.
There is a wonderful remedy as an approach to turning within. "When the mind moves, dont follow it. It will detach itself from the movement". "When the mind lands on something, dont follow it. It will detach itself from that which it lands". The mind has an incessant need to chase every thought that comes down the line. This is why we can never be at peace.
every time I tune in here, it's big. thank you Eckhart, I'd love to know what your experience is like. Are you mostly not thinking? Or are there periods when you are just noticing you're thinking, alert yet there is thinking going on?.... would love to know what it's like to let go of thinking for full day and weeks as I move thru the day and daily tasks.
You are the thinking. You don't even know you're thinking. Thinking. Rise above thinkthinking or fall below thinking. Enter the state of alert attention where there is no thinking. Thanks Eckhart. 🎾🏈🌄🐂🐳🍕🌷🍁💝🎶⚽️
The solution to uncontrolled thinking is not to stopping thinking completely. Of course not thinking will make you feel relaxed but that's about it. The solution to overthinking It is to learn to think in a controlled relaxed and productive manner.
When the brain is just in its energy wave - peaceful waves = “ not thinking state “ and when the formless comes to into the form …..can turn on - into a bigger frequency the attention - goes to that energy for the body this bio - logical electromagnetic body -to make it remember - its functioning program memory -in rational thinking or critical - to know how to survive …what’s the next ….🌞
Every hunter who stalks his game on foot knows this. But intent focus is not stopping thinking or clearing the mind from internal thought. It just takes meditation lol
@@bronsonmcnulty1110 i get that.. being 'lost' in the sense you are describing means a life without responsibilities, basically. a life where you don't have to think or plan anything. but what i mean is the physical world/life requires thinking, even if it's just for basic survival. so if you stop thinking, you're lost. and as i mentioned before, over-thinking is of course, not good either.
Okay so here's my question (to all): Does this mean it's not possible to use the practice of presence as a way to stay alert when a person is exhausted and doesn't have the luxury of sleeping; for example, in the case of parents raising a newborn? Because it sounds like he's saying toward the end that you will fall straight through the median of thinking down into sleep when you are tired (?)
Ekhart did not say you sink to dreaming but to sleeping. In many of his videos he points out that when you have not been thinking and you drop into dreamless sleep you are Awareness itself. However it is still better to rise up higher than to descend. Of course Eckhart describes it much better than I.
