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Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

When The Mind Stops, Awareness Remains

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Eckhart talks to a live audience in Arizona. He begins by saying the mind can be a wonderful thing – we can think, speak languages and engage in creativity. Eckhart also explains when we get too caught up in the mind, we lose touch with awareness. He cites moments in history such as Nazi Germany which he describes as a virus of the mind which took over and resulted in destruction on a mass scale. Eckhart warns when we create mind-made concepts about others, different from ourselves, we become desensitized to their inherent aliveness. We cannot see that in our deepest essence, we are all the same. Eckhart encourages us to learn from history, so we don’t have to make the same mistakes going forward. Eckhart says looking back at yesterday is the perfect catalyst to help us awaken today.

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When the mind stops, awareness remains.

0:05.0

In this episode, Eckart talks to a live audience in Arizona.

0:10.0

He begins by saying the mind can be a wonderful thing

0:14.0

that we have ability to think, speak languages, and engage in creativity.

0:19.0

But Eckart explains when we get too caught up in the mind,

0:22.0

we lose touch with awareness.

0:24.0

Eckart cites moments in history like Nazi Germany, for example,

0:29.0

when what he calls a virus of the mind took over,

0:32.0

and resulted in destruction on a mass scale.

0:36.0

Eckart warns, when we create mind-made concepts about others as different from ourselves,

0:42.0

we become desensitized to their inherent aliveness,

0:46.0

and we cannot see that in our deepest essence, we are all the same.

0:51.0

Eckart encourages that by learning from history,

0:55.0

we don't have to make the same mistakes going forward.

0:58.0

He says, looking back at yesterday,

1:01.0

he is the perfect catalyst to help us awaken today.

1:07.0

My script for today's talk,

1:14.0

ladies and gentlemen,

1:18.0

people who are joining us remotely have submitted questions.

1:34.0

Another beautiful day.

1:38.0

I've had an idea for a young person perhaps who is looking for a career,

1:45.0

an easy one.

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