Eckhart Tolle TV by Eckhart Tolle
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(August 2011)
EKHART ABOUT KARMA
Q: You speak of presence and being as keys to enjoying form and creating positive or mitigating circumstances. How does karma fit into all of this?
Q: Everyone is born in a certain external environment. In addition, each person is born with certain predispositions – they may be partially genetic, they may be other things. In other words, a person is born with certain patterns. We do not need to investigate where they come from, but the fact remains: a person is born in a certain environment. It can be violent or relatively peaceful. A person is born with internal patterns that you inherit. Even the pain-body is partially inherited.
There is a whole set of conditioning that occurs when you enter the environment. The environment conditions you further, and there is no choice – it’s just influence. You find yourself in this world with certain unconscious patterns that have become conditioned by who the person is. Karma, as I understand it, is the unconscious conditioning that governs your life. Karma is partly collective, partly personal. You can understand karma only not as an abstract object external to you, you can understand it only by observing yourself, and then you will know many other things. If you want to understand karma, you need to look at yourself.
I began to understand what karma is when something arose that was not part of karma at all. This is the key – the arising of consciousness, or presence, or spiritual awakening, is not part of karma. This is another dimension that breaks into the karmic sphere. You do not awaken by accumulating, as they sometimes say in the east, “good karma.” It’s great at this level, you can make the walls or furniture in your prison a little more comfortable, but there is something completely outside of karma that can come into your life at any moment.
Rebirth is, of course, part of karma. The deeper meaning of rebirth is identification with form. We don’t even need to believe in transmigration or anything else, you can look at rebirth in your own life. Every time you identify with an emerging thought, which is a form, you are born in that thought. Your personality, your sense of self is contained in it. This is karma. Your karma is an unconscious identification with the patterns you inherited, conditioned. It is a complete identification of consciousness with conditioned patterns. We can say that consciousness is a dream. This is why we use the word “awakening” in many spiritual traditions. Consciousness is awakening, consciousness is in a dream-like state where you identify with unconscious patterns. Many times a day you are reborn into an emotional or mental reaction, into thoughts that arise.
Karma creates confirmation in the outside world that it is correct. Therefore, if you think that the world is full of evil people, you will meet many evil people – in other words, unconscious people. Even people who are halfway between consciousness and unconsciousness, your faith will pull them into unconsciousness. Karma is the complete absence of conscious presence. This happens automatically. She is playing herself.
Time does not free you from karma. It is a misconception that if you just spend enough time, you will eventually be free of karma. Karma is renewed and repeated. The only thing that can free you from karma is the arising of presence. At any moment a presence can appear in the wheel of karma. This can happen to an offender in prison who is sentenced to death. This can happen to someone who has never heard of anything spiritual. This can happen to someone who has been meditating for thirty years.
Presence frees you from karma. Not all at once. Karma has a huge boost. Thought patterns, emotional patterns, reactive patterns. As presence arises, karma gradually diminishes and you will experience the fading of these patterns. This is not so important anymore, because when you are present, these thought patterns can still occur, but this is no longer problematic. They no longer cause the suffering they could have done before because they are seen in the light of awareness. In the light of mindfulness, patterns no longer dominate your life.
The pain-body is a part of karma, which can be strong in some and not so in others. When presence arises, you are freed from karma. Then a completely different factor enters your life. For example, for a person to be free of collective karma, you need a significant amount of presence for it to come. It will then remove you, either internally or you may end up somewhere else.
It takes a significant presence for a person born into a vast collective karma not to be drawn into it. When Hitler came to power, not many people were able to get rid of him. Some were, and they left. They saw what was happening and were strong enough not to identify with the collective. Getting rid of this collective karma takes a significant presence – and some people had it. Thus, our destiny is to go beyond karma and become a container of presence.
Anyone who awakens will sooner or later find that he becomes a kind of teacher for others. What the spiritual master is doing is indicating the possibility of awakening from identification with unconscious patterns. A spiritual teacher teaches you to go beyond karma. This is your function and it will become more and more important, whether you become a formal teacher or an informal teacher.
Spiritual awakening and getting out of karma are the same thing. Many people will reach out to you. Anyone who goes through the awakening process is already a teacher. Teaching means that you find yourself listening out of scope when someone speaks or asks a question or tells you about their problems. You may find that the answer comes from the silence in which you are listening. You don’t have the feeling that “now I am going to teach this person.” You will find that teaching is spontaneous. You will help people to get out of identification with unconsciousness, which means going beyond karma. This applies to all who are awakening.
When you teach, consciousness becomes aligned with your mind. Your mind is able to tune in to a deeper consciousness and can be used as a tool. Then the words themselves fly off your lips. Ultimately, there is really only one teacher, the awakened consciousness is the teacher. She can only teach those in whom there is a certain degree of readiness. The teaching must be accepted. If there is only density of mind, there will be no teaching.
You will be amazed when people reach out to you – people who are ready – and you find yourself saying something that you didn’t even know yourself. It was only when the question was asked that consciousness answered. When you teach, you learn. Realization comes. Teaching and learning are the same process. When you teach, deepening occurs. You are here to help people go beyond karma.
It is important to know that time does not free you from karma. The selfish mind says, “I need more time to be free.” The only thing people may need more time for is that they need time to realize that they don’t need time. ”Another twenty years of suffering may pass. before they realize that they don’t need time. They may have to suffer a little more before they realize the power of the timeless. The timeless is, of course, the end of karma.
INSPIRING STORY
In 2002, I discovered Eckhart Tolle through his book The Power of the Present. Once again, after a long break, I realized how much life I had missed, and returned to the spiritual path, and became a follower of Eckhart’s teachings. Recently, due to my age (I am 78 years old) and physical ailments, I have been forced to spend most of my time at home, which gave me the opportunity to read more, mainly in the field of religion and spirituality, and resume my daily meditation and reflection.
Today I received Eckhart’s newsletter for February 2011 and reading his story on the two dimensions of the awakening process gave me some of the confirmation I needed .. The first aspect, he said in the article, is to find the source within yourself, like yourself. Then, as the ego begins to disappear, incarnation takes place, another energy field moves through you, which, although not mentioned here, I suppose, culminates in the oneness with the Universe that the truly enlightened ones feel.
Despite the fact that I have read a lot in this area, I am still confused about the true meaning of the words “awakening” and “enlightenment”. From what I read, I realized that true enlightenment occurs in stages, as illustrated by the Zen story in which a Zen master from alder climbed a mountain and settled in a cave in the company of great silence to achieve a state of enlightenment. After seven years, feeling that he had reached, he began his journey back down the mountain. The air was fresh, the sunlight invigorated, and he was already enjoying his return to civilization with might and main, when at the foot of the hill he came across the boys, enthusiastically playing with a ball. Completely absorbed in the game, one of the boys, not seeing the old man, bumped into him, almost knocking him down. Without thinking twice, the old man reacted angrily: “Look where you are going, young idiot! You almost killed me! ” However, as soon as he finished punishing the boy, he realized what he had just done,
After thinking a little, he turned to the mountain and walked back to the cave. At that moment, he realized that, although he had reached a new level in his pursuit of enlightenment, he still had a lot of work to do before he could claim transcendence. Until he fully embodied those parts of himself that would allow him to live in peace and tranquility among others, his inner journey was not complete. As far as I remember this story, it had a happy ending. After several more years of work while living on the mountain, the monk descended again, this time fully embodied and fully enlightened, and took his place as a teacher for the other disciples.
After meditating regularly for a year and a half, over the past two weeks or so, I was finally able to achieve, on a fairly regular basis, what Eckhart describes as becoming a witness, observing my own physical movements, thoughts and emotions, and discovering the source within. , or simply as “living in the present moment”. Several times so far, I have felt that I had reached this state only to become tense, develop doubts, and lose what allowed me to experience this state without thoughts even for short periods of time. After getting frustrated and giving up at least twice, feeling like I just couldn’t do it, and then started meditating again, finally “grace” or simply retreating and relaxing led me to feel pretty confident that I can call a witness or observer at will and live in the present moment for hours. What an exciting feeling! To suddenly feel completely alive, maybe for the first time when I was about eight.
In my readings, I sometimes get a little confused about the true meaning of the term “enlightenment”. Until today, when I picked up Eckhart’s article, I assumed it meant more than just being able to move easily between modes of witnessing and thinking, but I never clearly understood that this was the case — from my readings I did. I thought it was a bit of a coincidence that immediately after this deep inner feeling that I can now freely go in and out of a state of no-mind, I will find Eckhart’s article on this very thing in his monthly newsletter! The incarnation phase, or “trip back to the mountains for a while” awaits me! I realize that I still have a long way to go, dealing with the embodiment of those things that lie in my pain-body, or “dark side”, but it is exciting to feel that I am at least on the right track. Thank you Eckhart, I enjoy the ride. I hope I can meet you someday.
Bill Mayhall
INSPIRING QUOTES
“With silence comes the blessing of the world.”
“Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls them good or bad, as if they were separate. Reality becomes fragmented by being overly dependent on thinking. This fragmentation is an illusion, but it seems very real while you are trapped. ”
– When you get into the car and close the door, stop for a few seconds and watch your breathing. Become aware of the silent but powerful sense of presence. ”
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