Overcoming the world. In this podcast, Eckhart talks about how many of us react

when the world doesn't go our way. He says we either surrender and accept the

situation or more often than not we go into victim mode.

Victim of circumstance, victim of other people, or even God.

He goes on to explain if loss is involved, then bitterness and anger set in, and the ego becomes more entrenched.

Eckhart mentions the ancient wisdom of Buddha who talked about suffering and the end of suffering,

and Jesus who said, you will have tribulation but

take heart for I have overcome the world. Eckhart asked participants to ponder

what it means to overcome the world.

He explains it has nothing to do with external power because it's an internal realization.

He says, the turbulent times that we live in provide ample opportunity to reach the eternal boundless part of ourselves

Eckhart believes we overcome the world when we don't derive our sense of identity from the world.

When the self, the little self, the egoic self, when the world does something to it, either one or two things can happen.

You come into a deep acceptance, sometimes after suffering, you suddenly surrender and then

something opens up and there's a you still are sad on the surface level but deep down there's a piece that passes all understanding.

But it can also happen when you experience loss that you become bitter and angry. The ego lost things that it identified with and

immediately creates another set of concepts, self-concept that say you are

angry with the world. I have been you're the victim of circumstance, this your

victim of God, your victim of other people, and you become bitter and angry, and immediately the ego forms again.

Another identity, conceptual identity.

This is particularly important

because we are moving into turbulent times as a collective probably affecting perhaps the entire planet,

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