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@Sumbee 2 года назад

I always remind myself that thinking and worrying doesn’t help me feel at peace and inner peace is the most important thing.

@rawadsheikh476 2 года назад

Thank you so profound bless you 🙏

@jakegggggggggggg 2 года назад

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!

@johngreen4683 2 года назад

@@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.

@johngreen4683 2 года назад

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 👍

@LessonsInLife 2 года назад

Thanks so much

@SunnyKindJourney 2 года назад

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 ❤

@maryamfiras111 2 года назад

thank you !🎈

@lorrainew7529 2 года назад

Thank you 💜

@stianterjesen3764 2 года назад

Ekstreme sports. Elementing Sports and Job's with hobby's like flycasting and procyckling ekstreme sosiale.

@stianterjesen3764 2 года назад

You are my meditating mentor you slow me down and binds my focus

@LessonsInLife 2 года назад

Thanks so much, have a nice day !

@VishVibezREACTS 2 года назад

“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present” - *🙏🏽ECKHART TOLLE , 💜 Your WISDOM RU-vidr🌸☀️*

@lisaaustin8965 Год назад

That's absolutely fantastic stuff right there...changed the whole way I mediate and how I perceive life !!!! So grateful

@stewbrown7477 2 года назад

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

@Enri45100 2 года назад

It can be exactly the opposite. The Devil can be very active through our thinking process.

@sandramynard1046 Год назад

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.

@ChatJayPiT 11 месяцев назад

Isn‘t this just like trusting god blindly?

@gwilymyddraig 10 месяцев назад

@@ChatJayPiT blind trust and permission is the base of all religions.

@recordplayerz 9 месяцев назад

Yes, I was a jw till 16, same issue with meditation.

@LucidLivingLL 2 года назад

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

@TheDhammaHub 2 года назад

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

@stevegifford9693 2 года назад

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.

@johngreen4683 2 года назад

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.

@martingodfrey8106 2 года назад

@@johngreen4683 thanks nso I’ll not

@caseyanderson2345 2 года назад

I know exactly what you mean. Thank you for sharing. This teaching is actually beyond amazing easy to experience a "glimpses" with.

@francesNothing333 2 года назад

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. 😻

@VishVibezREACTS 2 года назад

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it.” - *🙏🏽ECKHART TOLLE , ❤️🤍❤️ Your WISDOM RU-vidr🌸☀️*

@outofwonder 2 года назад

"alert attention" is such a helpful description to access presence

@RivaRich88 2 года назад

Happy Birthday, Eckhart! (Feb 16, 2022) 🌞🌞🌞 🙏🙏🙏 ❤️❤️❤️

@jonathangubisch-createyour2666 2 года назад

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!☺❤

@sawadanaomi8570 2 года назад

I tried to watch this video twice and I fallen to sleep. His voice is like meditation to me. I ended up not to think.

@lindapelle8738 2 года назад

You’re lucky I wish I could sleep that easily. Count your blessings

@lauragavrilei4155 2 года назад

"Rise above thinking..." 🤗💕

@ruthjenkins9562 Год назад

Yes it's amazing to realize that our fundamental being has nothing to do with thought!🙂

@gavinspeaks 2 года назад

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. Much Love from a Law Of Attraction RU-vidr 💜

@lindapelle8738 2 года назад

Nice! Just subscribed to your channel.

@9me9a92 2 года назад

Eckhart Tolle's choice of colour for clothing is very impressive. I LOVE ALL THE COLOUR MATCHES.

@lindapelle8738 2 года назад

I always loved the way he dresses.

@9me9a92 2 года назад

@@lindapelle8738 feel you ×. His style is cosy and unique

@hrshield1626 2 года назад

"If there is no other way,then there is way of spirituality".

@imainjett8904 2 года назад

These videoes comes at the perfect time, just when I need them the most

@NondualityChannel 2 года назад

Not thinking at this moment...and it's rarely needed. 100% devoted to the feeling/sensory experiencing of the moment. Complete attention to now.

@ruthjenkins9562 Год назад

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.🙂

@lordbyron3603 2 дня назад

Whenever I observe or listen to ET ,, I notice I stop thinking .

@RainessaASMR 2 года назад

Thank you

@anandakumarsanthinathan4740 2 года назад

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.

@qualityquotes229 2 года назад

Most great accomplishments were achieved by the people, who at first had no idea what they were doing. Keep going my friend. I am cheering for you. 🙂

@charlesmiller4209 Год назад

Love this and love not thinking is pure beautiful being.

@michaelthompson6080 2 года назад

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..

@Green-ie1dn 2 года назад

Thank you, Eckhart Tolle, for guiding and assisting us to connect with our inner beings🙏 I am enormously grateful for everything you do🦋🦋🦋

@properpsychology1276 2 года назад

"Lose your mind and come to your senses." -Fritz Perls

@scsi_joe 2 года назад

It is such a fine line.. If one stops thinking completely, then you're lost. And of course if you over-think, that's no good either.

@lindapelle8738 2 года назад

Agreed, I think I got a little too good at not thinking there for a while I had to force myself to start thinking.

@bronsonmcnulty1110 2 года назад

if you are lost is great......what would remain afterwords would be the real "deal" .........

@scsi_joe 2 года назад

@@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.

@ReynaSingh 2 года назад

Wonderful. Thank you for these videos

@internetmail3888 11 месяцев назад

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.

@petrbrozek5452 3 месяца назад

I think you missed the point.

@JlunaMDhimself 2 месяца назад

@@petrbrozek5452 yeah I think he did

@dan-andreivasilescu228 2 года назад

Cats embody a wonderful presence :)

@lindapelle8738 2 года назад

As I watch this my cat is just sitting at the foot of my bed staring into space very contently not thinking about anything.

@weare1energymessages414 2 года назад

❤️❤️❤️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

@myvoiceismysword5484 2 года назад

Oh yes thank you you saved my life again

@amandachagnon9810 2 года назад

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.! 🙏🏼

@luciacos7700 2 года назад

You might be naturally enlightened!

@rawadsheikh476 2 года назад

God bless you u are enlightened 🙏😊

@ruthjenkins9562 Год назад

Keep at it - you're definitely on the right track!😊

@777houriaa 2 года назад

Thank you so much 🙏🙏🌈♥️🌈

@ElementsOfDivinity 2 года назад

I swear you are getting younger! That’s what I am thinking! you look great!

@autonomydepthconsciousness7633 2 года назад

I've never been able to master silence...I've usually had continuous thoughts. I've just learned to accept that. A video like this is still a good reminder to be present.

@jokevermeer3828 2 года назад

I also like the story of the 3 birds about this, from Mooji.

@ruthjenkins9562 Год назад

Thanks for mentioning wonderful Mooji - he has great insights as well!❤️

@SuperAllenwill 2 года назад

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.

@nom5205 2 года назад

Hi Allen, who are you quoting..? ...if you dont mind. Tnks

@SuperAllenwill 2 года назад

This is a quote from Zen Master Pai-Chang from the Tang Dynasty.

@nom5205 2 года назад

@@SuperAllenwill --tnks

@lindapelle8738 2 года назад

It’s nice to have these types of applications to help you reached that point of not thinking.

@djl3009 2 года назад

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?"

@SIVA8 2 года назад

THANK U SO MUCH & BEST EVER BLESSINGS & WISHES FOR ALL 💪💪💪💪💪🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@clarkrobertson6816 2 года назад

No eckhart.of and on brother.much love ❤

@daveb5145 2 года назад

Thankyou. Your teachings help me rise above thinking during the day, if only for short moments. However one can also fall below thinking at night with your guidance, for much longer than moments, Thank you 🙏

@sarahmonday8060 2 года назад

What's the difference between going above thought to below thought, like going unconscious? Falling into deep sleep? He didn't expanding what he means by below thought

@luciacos7700 2 года назад

@@sarahmonday8060 he explained it many time in other videos. Below thinking- when you fall asleep. Above thinking- you enlightened

@daveb5145 2 года назад

@@sarahmonday8060 yes below thinking is falling asleep, not being in an alert presence.

@velites0 2 года назад

You are great! I hope the rest of humans can see the truth of religions

@Latte11114 2 года назад

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.

@giselar.12 2 года назад

🌈Thank you very much ❤️🙏❤️

@neiljeffers4746 2 года назад

Fantastic thinking? Not stop thinking! Thinking Being awake alert still all doing present moment...

@neiljeffers4746 2 года назад

Above beyond... vertical dimension got it

@mohamedElyas97 2 года назад

From africa realy hope get deploma and study from you

@omaranasr2659 2 года назад

شكراً Ekhart لقد انرت طريقي.

@lorrainew7529 2 года назад

Thank you 💚

@TheStepnen 2 года назад

a great brother.

@christinestone3552 2 года назад

Thank you Eckhart 🙏💜

@beyondlimitswithralphhaven2000 2 года назад

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.

@muruganmark8134 2 года назад

The power of now

@panpeter9819 2 года назад

I love you!

@SusanneWuthrich 2 года назад

4:20 we can also use the stillness or blend out just to manifest New possibilities.

@rogerlin9602 2 года назад

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. 🎾🏈🌄🐂🐳🍕🌷🍁💝🎶⚽️

@pawansharma9545 2 года назад

Really great experience ...🙏🙏

@rogerlin9602 2 года назад

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. 🏄‍♂️🎢⛷⚽️🍕😎🍓🌷🤩🐂🎪🌏🎖🎆

@terryleecone9675 2 года назад

Now you got Me thinking about thinking 😆

@bronsonmcnulty1110 2 года назад

very thoughtful

@jr6200 2 года назад

I often think how well I'm doing at not thinking

@consueloleal7883 2 года назад

Thank you !! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@عماد-ف3ذ 2 года назад

THANK YOU❤

@Omnipresence101 2 года назад

here 🙏

@reecea.419 9 месяцев назад

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.

@Sumbee 2 года назад

What is enlightenment? Rising above thought.

@cps_Zen_Run 2 года назад

Accepting reality and experience as it is.

@luciacos7700 2 года назад

Yes, thinking it's raising above thoughts

@siewkonsum7291 2 года назад

Tang Zen Grandmaster Hui Hai says, Practice non-thinking, which thinking and yet not thinking. That is "alertness" in the present now moment.

@mr.c2485 2 года назад

Without sight we would all be better off. Think about the demeanor of those you know who are blind.

@jr6200 2 года назад

I don't know. We'd probably fall down a lot

@RinusVlaar 2 года назад

To think AND not to think.

@tracezachdaniels4264 2 года назад

SO SHWEEEETTT...much love Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO.[the music worldwide} YES....GREAT VIDEO..!

@bcvc3365 2 года назад

The universe is mental which means everything is created by our thoughts. So think positive thoughts and you will manifest good things in your life.

@bronsonmcnulty1110 2 года назад

....."desire is the root cause of suffering".....

@ruthjenkins9562 Год назад

No the universe is not created by thought - if it was, you would disappear every time a thought disappeared - there's something that is still here even when we're not thinking.🙂

@ZYX84 2 года назад

Very nice

@notbrendon 10 месяцев назад

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 (?)

@irenemagill4890 2 месяца назад

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.

@notbrendon 2 месяца назад

You're right. I thought all this time that he said we go "to" sleep when he actually says you go "toward" sleep

@Shwaaball 2 года назад

Truth

@pankajkushwaha3793 6 месяцев назад

Thank you :)

@miiache6761 2 года назад

💜

@mariehaverty8209 2 года назад

Love this ❤when I practice no thinking sometimes I cant my mind🤣😂

@benoitalcide3979 2 года назад

How to talk to people that never have experienced presence and doesn't believe that not talking thinking is posible?

@bronsonmcnulty1110 2 года назад

just explain they are not their own thoughts .

@now3210 2 года назад

Existance from Consciousness, Being.

@petedavidson205 2 года назад

Now🙏🏼

@mthomas1800 2 года назад

🙏✨

@boitumeloluthermfuyo7607 2 года назад

🙏🏾

@adda5385 2 года назад

🙏

@carenkurdjinian5413 2 года назад

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 ….🌞

@obitogodwill3559 2 года назад

how can I realize that I have awakened?

@strix3827 2 года назад

What happens when you fall below thinking?

@hihowareyou0000 2 года назад

Your Amazing 👏 😀 💯❤🌍

@judemaleski4853 2 года назад

However at least I can take him off the pedestal- he is human like the rest of us.

@KenSoHappyClegg 2 года назад

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

@soulsghosts4816 2 года назад

I'm not thinking, I'm listenning...

@Arcticnick 2 года назад

Do you provide any solutions to your ‘problems’?

@sarahmonday8060 2 года назад

Can you explain please what below thought means vs above thought?

@luciacos7700 2 года назад

Below thinking ' you do not think bcs you are asleep. Above thinking, you do not think, as you are enlightened and do not need to think. You still can watch your thoughts or use thinking as a practical thing in everyday life, like planning when to but a ticket for a flight if you need to fly, but can not transportation yet:)

@rutniktrainer 2 года назад

Am I thinking? Yes but very slowly. The stillness slips in by degrees.

@assessoroffice7212 Год назад

A BIG NO.... It is a fact that you cannot stop thinking. It occurs on its own. How could you put a halt to something you didn't start?

@soldieroflight1287 2 года назад

i try to think but hearing the air blower, now all im thinking about is a tornado LOL....

@lawreence-5234 2 года назад

Thank you so very much... 😇 🙏 👼 💍💎 7️⃣5️⃣

@janetmerabti7732 2 года назад

C’est dommage les sous titres en français ne sont pas activés

@Pug1948 2 года назад

🙏☮️♥️

@GratefulZen 2 года назад

Perhaps I’m overthinking but I’m not sure most humans can consciously suspend thinking for extended periods of time.

@LucidLivingLL 2 года назад

It is possible, its what I like to call the meditative mind. It is really just a feeling of being here and your presence is what allows you to let go of your thoughts as they arise. After a while, you just enjoy not thinking, and you choose to participate in thought.

@GratefulZen 2 года назад

@@LucidLivingLL Thoughts come, thoughts go is my experience.

@LucidLivingLL 2 года назад

@@GratefulZen true, the way I see it though is that the longer you practice presence, the bigger the space between each thought.

@GratefulZen 2 года назад

@@LucidLivingLL Yes, my experience of that is being in observing mode without judging or needing attention from others. I call it “just being.” I obviously have not actively worked to lengthen the non-thinking mode. I’m still working on recognizing helpful vs. unhelpful thinking & not indulging in or reacting to the unhealthy thoughts. I’m at an age & stage in life where I am tiring of “self-improvement” & want to live without self-imposed as well as socio- cultural pressure “to be better.” To quote a John Lennon song, “ All I want is some truth, just gimme some truth .”

@LucidLivingLL 2 года назад

@@GratefulZen for sure, self-improvement could be a trap, but I always see it as self-understanding. The more you know yourself and your inner systems, the less it becomes about pressure and more about wonder.

@gefginn3699 2 года назад

💛🥰💜

@МыколаНетребко Год назад

but who is the one NOT thinking?

@PrudentStudent666 2 года назад

Everyone who says that you can stop thinking never really gives a method or way to do it. It is all generalities when they explain it. There may be moments between thoughts but to stop all thought?

@jr6200 2 года назад

A method is more thought. You learn to run by running. You learn to love by loving.

@ruthjenkins9562 Год назад

Thinking never really stops - he's only encouraging us to be in an observing detached place about it.🙂