Awakening from the Dream State, finding balance between being and doing.

In this episode, Eckhart talks about the importance of finding balance between being and doing.

He explains, so many of us get lost in the doing because we're so focused on external achievements.

Getting ahead, chasing after what we think constitutes the perfect life.

Eckhart adds that when we get lost in doing, we're also propelled by thinking.

He teaches us that thinking is not voluntary. Instead, he says thinking is something that actually happens to us,

and the movement of thought quickly takes on a life of its own.

Eckhart says, the unfortunate result is that we're rendered semi-conscious and living a half-life, as if in a dream.

Eckhart reveals there is a deeper part of us beyond the dream, and also an alert brilliant state of consciousness,

just waiting to be realized.

Miraculously, he says that the consciousness that is you is the same consciousness that underlies the entire universe.

Wow!

So, the vital thing is to find the balance in your life between being and doing.

Here we focus on being because most humans are suffering from the dreadful affliction,

which we may call forgetfulness of being.

And because there's forgetfulness of being, they are lost in doing.

They lose themselves in their doing.

Or if they are not doing anything, maybe they're hanging around at the street corners,

then they are lost in semi-consciousness.

They have moving below thinking, or they're trapped in very dysfunctional mind patterns.

And even to thinking we could even categorize as, that's also a kind of doing.

Doing is not just activities that you're engaged in in daily life,

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