Essential Teachings Special: The Individual and Collective Pain Body

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Originally aired July 21, 2022. In this episode Eckhart reflects on the power of the present moment. He then answers a question about the individual and collective pain bodies. He says we all have both and sometimes one is stronger than the other. He believes those with a strong pain body are often more likely to awaken than those who don’t have one. He explains that either way, the great danger is falling into the trap of what he calls “victim identity.” Eckhart says we need to take responsibility for the accumulated suffering inside ourselves and learn to heal from it. Eckhart believes our suffering is transmuted into awareness and that is the beginning of awakening.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody.
0:12.0	Wonderful to share this moment with you, this moment.
0:18.0	And perhaps we can start with the foundation for your entire life
0:27.6	which is always the present moment that's also the foundation for manifestation.
0:40.3	Manifesting things externally requires time.
0:48.3	But the foundation for all manifestation is in the present moment and lies in the power of the
1:00.3	present moment so let's begin with acknowledging the present moment.
1:11.6	Now you might think that's a normal thing to do, but not for most people.
1:18.6	So acknowledging the present moment is to become aware of your sense perceptions at this moment.
1:30.3	Visual.
1:32.3	Let's bring up for a moment to people who are here with us.
1:37.3	A number of human beings, many humans.
1:43.3	I'm going to use the words in a strange way now.
1:47.0	Not many human beings, just many humans, but one being.
1:53.0	That's an incredible realization.
1:59.0	It changes the way in which you perceive others also
2:05.4	changes the way in which you perceive yourself you are human the conditioned
2:12.3	entity the person which has a body, a name, a race, a gender, other things that make up the identity of the person, that's the human.
2:32.4	Beyond that, at a deeper level,
2:37.7	is the consciousness, not the conditioned consciousness,
2:41.7	which is the mind and the emotional field,
2:45.5	but the unconditioned, the light of consciousness
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