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Opra 가 운영하는 Eckhart Tolle 의 the Power of Now 를 BIll HARRIS 가 소개하고 있습니다. 전체 17쪽 중 앞부분 3쪽 정도입니다. mp3 파일은 3M 용량관계로 달라고 하면 개별로 보내드립니다. 음성파일은 < Eckhart Tolle and the Power of Now > 사이트에서 가입 후 다운받을 수 있습니다. ................ http://www.masteringthepowerofnow.com/#register
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1. 끊임없이 올라오는 마음(ego)은 참된 나 자신이 아니다...........순간 순간에 알아차려라...지금에 깨어 있어라... 2. mental world 속에 살기 때문에..그래서 생각으로 보기때문에 ........있는 그대로의 세계(real world)를 보지 못한다. ........있는 그대로의 자신을 알지 못한다. 3. 독립적으로 존재하는 것은 있을 수 없다. 모든 것은 인과로 연결된 하나의 유기체이다. .........독립개체(독립자아)는 없다.
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a Conversation witH BIll HARRIS
Let’s dig a little deeper into some of what Eckhart Tolle is saying and see if we can make all of this even more clear, and help you find a way to more easily embody what Tolle is talking about. Understanding all of this on an intellectual level is helpful to some degree, but what we’re really looking for is being it, not understanding it. In fact, I want you to realize that the transcendent, what Tolle calls presence, really can’t be understood intellectually. Anything you can say about it isn’t it, and
One of the main ways to get stuck is to keep trying to “get it” intellectually. I see people do this all the time. They keep trying to understand it, without realizing that what is trying to understand it is the ego, and the ego can never understand it. The ego would love to make “being awakened” another of its accomplishments, but this will never happen.
Awakening is a dis-identification with the ego. The ego becomes something you have, but not who you are. Awakening isn’t something that happens as a result of intellectual understanding. Instead, it’s a shift in perspective.like those pictures where you can either see the goblet or the two ladies’ faces, but not both.
So stop trying to “get it” intellectually. You can be it, but you can’t get it, at least not mentally. Let me give you an example that might make this clearer. If you had never tasted a strawberry, and I told you all about strawberries. I described how they taste, what the texture is like, and told you everything else I could think of about the experience of strawberry-eating.you still wouldn’t know what strawberries taste like.
You can taste a strawberry, but you can’t understand what they taste like, and you can taste the transcendent, but you can’t understand what it tastes like. Once you’ve experienced it you can tell someone what it was like but, unless they’ve also experienced it, what you say won’t tell them any more than telling someone who hasn’t eaten a strawberry what that’s like.
And even if another person has experienced the transcendent, what you say about it will never capture it. Whatever you say about it isn’t it. The only value of anyone telling you about it, whether it’s me or Genpo Roshi or Eckhart Tolle, is to help you have the experience. So stop trying to get it with your mind. It can’t be done.
Having said that, let’s look at how you can more easily have the experience Tolle talks about, and even more, live from that transcendent place.
Tolle’s first book was about the Now moment, and he does a terrific job of describing what happens when you allow yourself to get into that Now moment, and also how the ego pulls you out of the Now moment. The whole idea of getting into the Now moment is one of those things that is so simple that most people figure out a way to make it complicated.
The truth is, and Tolle says this, the only thing that exists is the Now. The past and the future are ideas, not realities. They exist mentally, but you can’t hand me the past or the future, or point to it, or put it in a wheel mbarrow. Both past and future are conceptualizations. Looking for the past or the future is like going to the border between the US and Canada and trying to find the dotted line you saw on the map. There’s nothing there because “border” is just an idea.
So Tolle points out that most of the time we’re either in the past, regretting something that’s already over, or in the future, hoping for something better or fearing something worse, and in doing so we miss the only thing that’s real.Now. A lot of people would say, well, so what, what’s the big deal about the present moment? Well, the only way to find out is to experience the Now moment for yourself, and Tolle describes a number of ways to do that.watching your breath, looking at a flower or the ocean or some other exquisite natural phenomenon, watching your thoughts, paying attention to the sensations in your body, and so forth. All of these will take you into the present moment.
The problem is that our habit of being in the past or the future, rather than the present, our habit of living in our mental world instead of in the real world, is so strong that most of us can only stay in the present moment for a few seconds. We do something to bring us into the present moment and within a few seconds our internal commentary about it, our ideas about it, pull us back into the past or the future, or into some other aspect of our mental representations of reality.
To play the Game of Black and White a person first must learn to divide everything in the world into separate things and separate events. And, in fact, people learn to do this so well that once they’ve learned how to do it they don’t even question whether or not it’s really true that the world is composed of separate things and events. This chopping of the world into separate things and events is one of the key ways the ego keeps you from staying in the Now and experiencing who you really are. Seeing through this illusion makes living in the Now much easier.
So let’s look at this idea that the world consists of separate things and events more closely, and then we’ll get back to the game of Black and White. A baby experiences what scientists call a feeling of oceanic oneness. The baby can’t tell where it ends and the rest of the world begins. The world is just one big continuous glob to a baby, completely undifferentiated.
But at some point the baby bites her thumb, and it hurts. She bites her blanket, though, and it doesn’t hurt, and the baby begins to make a distinction between “me” and “not me.” The differentiation process begins. When the child is old enough to learn to talk the parents teach her the names of all kinds of things. This gives the child the idea that there’s something called a “thing” and that a thing and its name are synonymous. Now why isn’t this accurate? As you look around you, you can probably see all kinds of “things,” and I’m sure you can think of all kinds of separate events you’ve experienced.
Let’s look at why this really isn’t an accurate way to see the world.helpful, in many ways, but not accurate. and how seeing the world in this way keeps you from being in the Now moment and experiencing the deep peace of knowing who you really are. In fact, the whole idea of separate things and events, as obvious and common-sensical as it seems to be, is a trick played on us by the ego.
Think of a bee and a flower. The flower is rooted to the ground and the bee buzzes around it. Everyone knows that a bee and a flower divisions are ideas about reality, not the reality itself. In truth, everything is connected to, and dependent upon, everything else. In fact, just as an aside, I’ll also add here that in this same sense, the entire universe depends upon you and your existence. Even before you were born the universe depended upon the fact that someday you would be born. The entire system depends on everything that has gone before and are two, separate, indi The entire system depends on everything that has gone before and also everything that will happen later. also everything that will vidual “things.” But are happen later. But that’s they? You never see flow-another discussion for ers unless there are bees, another time. and you never see bees without flowers. They At any rate, that’s the go together. They need first thing you need each other. They’re one, to understand.it’s all interconnected, organic one big interconnected system, what a physicist system, and every part might call a “unified field.” You can’t have bees in isolation, nor can you have flowers in isolation. They exist in relation to each other. In that sense they’re really one organism.
Then, of course, you have the dirt the flower is planted in, and the bacteria and worms that live in the dirt and contribute to the nutrients the flower pulls from the ground. That’s part of the system, too. So is the air, containing the right mix of gases, that both the flower and the bee need. Of course we also need a planet that’s a certain distance from a certain kind of star, with the right temperature, and the right amount of light, the right amount of air pressure, and the right kind of cosmic rays that allow the flower, the bee, the worms, the bacteria, and so on, to exist and thrive. |