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I will heartily second reading Eckhart Tolle instead of a whole lot of different spiritual books - he gets to the heart of it all without the needless digressio
by blinkingled 16y ago
I will heartily second reading Eckhart Tolle instead of a whole lot of different spiritual books - he gets to the heart of it all without the needless digressions. Next to it J Krishnamurthy is good if you want to go deeper. But yeah after you've read Eckhart's Power of Now you should not feel like adding more knowledge to your self :)
To me PoN was a fundamental shift - in the way I think, the reasons that prompt me to think, the decisions I make, everything. I found the concept of utilitarian thinking very helpful in terms of actually being able to stop useless thinking - if you keep a bit of consciousness always in the background and ask - what is this thought giving me, is it changing my circumstance - that to me is a huge balancing force.
- crazydiamond 16y agoI actually came to PON after finding the silence and I-am ness through a process of questioning beliefs. I was glad to find someone who could explain simply what was happening. Tolle was great for me because he asks us to stay in this I-am'ness or Nowness and not just dispel it. And that has led to a huge "fundamental shift" as you say. Just because some of these things have been known for thousands of years and have been talked of by Christians, Buddhists, Hindus etc, does not mean they are a set of beliefs (as some are suggesting).
- blinkingled 16y agoBeliefs have traditionally come with blind acceptance - either due to very complex disposition or due to its origins in fear (sins/hell etc). To that extent, I agree that what Tolle is doing falls outside of beliefs - it is a paradigm change in that the path he charted to get to enlightenment is much more scientific in nature - verifiable, logical and something that can be easily experimented with. And most of all it doesn't have its origins in fear or authority.