Presence, the natural path that leads to life.

In this podcast, Eckhart talks with a live audience about freeing oneself from the mind to find presence.

He says we must become aware of the harmful thoughts that hold us hostage.

Life's crises need not drag us into unconsciousness.

We can stay alert and let them take us to a deeper state of awareness.

Eckert says, while the path to presence is narrow, it ultimately leads to life.

To get out of your mind, remember, I wrote about it in various places. Body awareness is extremely

helpful. Once you realize your mind is not stopping and it wants to drag you along, one

thought after another, oh my God.

And at some point you realize it's futile that requires a little bit of awareness, but you

all have more than that, more than a little bit of awareness.

You need at some point to realize that certain types of thinking, which is a large percentage of thinking,

is not only futile, but harmful.

Futile, harmful.

It creates suffering, such as worry, anxiety, grievances from the past, resentment, all those

types of thinking,

which a lot of human thinking is like that,

complaining kinds of thoughts,

complaining about people in situations and this and that and about my life and your...

All that kind of thinking is, once there's a little bit of awareness,

you realize my thoughts right now are futile,

they're all purpose, they're actually causing me suffering,

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