Being and Doing: Balancing the Two Dimensions of Existence | Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle explores the dual nature of human existence, encompassing both the being and doing dimensions. He emphasizes the importance of awakening to the timeless dimension of being while navigating the temporal aspects of human life. Eckhart Tolle explains that awakening involves recognizing and embodying both dimensions, and that brief moments of peace and lightness often occur when thinking subsides, allowing one to feel intensely alive and present.
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About Eckhart:
Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. With his international bestsellers, The Power of Now and A New Earth-translated into more than 50 languages-he has introduced millions to the joy and freedom of living life in the present moment. The New York Times has described him as “the most popular spiritual author in the United States,” and in 2011, Watkins Review (now Watkins Mind Body Spirit) named him “the most spiritually influential person in the world.”
Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.

[@abumutaka1373]

When you are awakening, the challenges of the world become helpful to you.

[@Highermanbeing]

I'll keep this in mind, thank you👊🏼

[@Highermanbeing]

I'll keep this in mind, thank you👊🏼

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

Life is already fully awake and has never been otherwise. There is only one All, one Now, hence one Life, that being the One that IS.

[@KikiRevenge]

I REALLY needed to hear this right now!

[@anantgarde1365]

This is my experience too. I am now through. No reaction emerges within for any kind of adversity, forget about outward tangible reaction.

[@wildwader]

Ekhart, J Krishnamurthy, Sadhguru and few others, changed the entire perspective of life for me. Over the last year or so I have realised they are all saying the same thing, pointing in the same direction albeit in different ways. Ekhart is very practical and his words are magic. As he says himself words are limited when you are talking about a transcendent dimension but he’s still magical. I feel like I owe my every breath to these genius souls who walked on earth alongside us. Thank you for helping me reborn ❤❣️

[@samshuijzen]

The figure in Carlos Castaneda ' s books also has a lot of wisdom on the same lines, only with a very different approach. Check it out, good luck!

[@Gaurav.P0]

​@@samshuijzenWhich book of his are you recommending ?

[@samshuijzen]

@@Gaurav.P0 His later works especially The Fire from within, the art of dreaming and the power of silence

[@iambelia]

who are these few others? I'm interested

[@gailmorgan2556]

Michael Singer and Osho come to mind.

[@diyanahjean9191]

I always feel like he’s in a constant state of channeling divine information like a constant channel

[@darlenedockstader3327]

True Presence The Power of NOW Mastery

[@Joy-ym3mx]

I am so grateful for Being in this same life as Eckhart 💞🙏💖

[@SusanL-ds6lc]

Each day, try to have your" being" shining bright as you go about your " human" life. Our continuous practice. I learned this from Eckhart years ago . He refers to it as the cross. The human part is the horizontal and the being is the vertical. Beautiful. Isn't Eckhart great???

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

You’re great!

[@colbyd.5044]

Awesome that your post is about the cross and there are currently 33 likes! 🙏

[@VisibletoanyoneonYoutubes]

@EckharrtTolIe BOT

[@pattyberryman3037]

The Beautiful Beings of Gaia would like to thank Eckhart Toolle for his service. We are forever grateful.

[@ReikiMasterCarlie]

A beautiful explanation of problems in life for unconscious people and awakened people.🌟🙏🏻

[@esmegreen3145]

He's so natural and relaxed!

[@francescagabarini2293]

Hi from Argentina 🇦🇷 Eckhart you bring into my life spirituallity when I Was in a big hole. My life begins to change a lot when I read the Power of Now. Thank you and thanks the universe for this wonderful teacher that shines so much light on this world ❤ I hope he came to teach us here, so many people need this 🦋✨️

[@maryferr333]

Nature is so helpful for me. God's gift for us to love and enjoy ❤...

[@johngreen4683]

To be fair, you, me and all humans are a part of nature, not separate from it just as with the Universe itself. We sometimes lose sight of this and see ourselves as something outside nature and separate from nature but that's just the ego thinking for us 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@veraintuizione6497]

Absolutely true 🙏. The challenges are so many and tirelessly continuous that the only way to overcome them is to truly surrender to them. A deep and definitive surrender and above all without the burden of whys. Then all the clouds disappear. The horizon becomes clean and bright and a perpetual light will mark your path even in the deepest darkness.❤ To tell the truth there is a why for them. To see the Truth. So grateful 💓🙏✨✨✨✨🌺

[@chibay99]

BEautifully summarized!

[@veraintuizione6497]

@@chibay99 Thanks alot ❤️🙏

[@erikafroehlich7791]

I throw a love blanket over my challenges and leave it alone and trust, best I can, to dissolve. After following Abraham and Neville for a long time I appreciate a good mix of these teachers. Ultimately, I can feel the truth and I enjoy some humour thrown in along the path.

[@LOVEBLISS-JOY]

Perfect guidance for balancing the doing energy and being present through challenges.... being present is the ultimate weapon for challenges coming in mind❤🙏 Thank you Eckhart ❤😌🙏

[@NavodiLuwisHewa]

It is amazing that this video was suggested to me by youtube itself, when I was having this same insights and facing a a really challenged situation. ❤❤❤

[@lovenikolatesla846]

You are appreciated, Thank you 🧘🏽‍♀️✨️

[@zanamed]

I love Nikola Tesla too !

[@lovenikolatesla846]

@@zanamed One of a kind wasn't he. ✨️

[@williamhoffman1046]

totally agree, routinely keeping my mind empty brings answers to the problems I face almost like magic. Keep that grail empty my friends.

[@TheRealmofDreams]

This video was incredibly insightful for me, thank you cuz i just needed to understand things that happend to me and couldn't explain.

[@catea2551]

Thanks for everything! I have no complaints whatsoever ❤

[@julzhepburn3688]

If we were flowers in gods garden,our stem would be our essence ,the blossoms would be our temporal lives ,,🌱⚘

[@mayapatuel1459]

I have so much love n gratitude 4 u Eckhard! Keep shining yr light, humanity needs u. U r the modern day Buddha. Plus funny!

[@harrietpeabody2118]

Thank you beautiful soul

[@esmegreen3145]

What u talk about happens to me when I'm intensely joyful and loving, there's no painbody it's not even existing in any way 😊(also i must say this is possible also because u taught that negativity isn't "innate" so I know joy and love doesn't have a trace of it)

[@HMm-xi5se]

Very true. I was in completely pain from emotional flashbacks for more than 14 hours and watching and listening to him made me very calm and safe

[@wondergirl60s]

I get little blips of samadhi, from time to time. I really love watching the clouds go by.🪬✌️❤️🙏

[@soniaalexandria4836]

What a fantastic explanation of becoming conscious! I am steadily in this process and it is exactly this way...TY Eckhart 🙏

[@meganclaire3385]

you have changed my life-thank you so much!❤

[@rubin-healmysocialanxiety702]

Great video - we are human beings not human doings ❤

[@stayawakenhealthy2539]

Such a GR8 vid Eckhart. The Future will be FAR better than the PAST for the AWAKENED!! Regards Pete NSW. Australia

[@lucindawilson5510]

thank you Eckhart..this is very true. so grateful you have brought it to my attention again..very helpful.

[@zena4000]

Deep words. Thank you!💜

[@carpenterfamily6198]

As you are awaking each challenge will help you further awaken.

[@Ra-thesunking]

Thank you so much

[@RenaudDupuis]

I'm fizzing and popping !! Something's going on and I love it !

[@jackeisenman1572]

Thanks for your wisdom I will continue balance between those two iideas

[@clairerobin6207]

It's a breaking free from this dimension. It's where other worldliness is experienced. And in that experience you have realizations. It's the seeing far beyond this world.

[@NDC-d9s]

Yes !! The sensation of thinking... It was where my mind was. Yes !!

[@emma-tv2pv]

thank you🙏🙏🙏 I am a human being 🙏🙏🙏

[@rozzgrey801]

'To do is to be': Socrates. 'To be is to do': Satre. 'Do be do be do': Sinatra.

[@itana5542]

I like your comment❤😀 …. (BUT The name is SARTRE)

[@breakablehandlewithcare]

That's a good one 😅

[@prachigothi94]

Sorry but do be do be do is Scooby Doo :)

[@rns69]

Dabadabadoo - Barney Flintstone

[@NDC-d9s]

Yes !! It has indeed strengthened me 💯 %

[@FearlessChild333]

This was lovely, and as usual, so are you. Thank You!

[@kelvinsnewsupdate7653]

Great Teaching Sir !

[@anna896375]

Thank you Eckhart ❤

[@monanordengard1870]

Thank you I do understand 💡🙏♥️

[@jessicasunnyd]

Thank you for creating this, and you my take this or leave it- but I continually have been having a hard time with how every reading I choose with you, there is a lot of excitement and “I told you so!” that happens. It feels like that could create a lot of projection, rather than intuition, so it makes it hard for me to keep going with reading or feel trust. If this resonates with you (and since it keeps happing every reading), then I felt like sharing the feedback. Regardless, I think everything works out perfectly. Best 🙏

[@mokuho]

This is a important topic! Thank you Eckhart !🙏🏼

[@cloudsofwonder7004]

Knowledge of our mind Body conecting to freely Forgiving Ourself ☘️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

[@lindat1078]

When I was in college (‘70) , I remember climbing around in nature because it was all around me. I had those moments of stillness and realized it was God.

[@satoriandren]

Great

[@sjbohag9476]

Yup, same. I heard the voice out in the woods. It said God is Love !

[@aichouchachtiouizamit2866]

@@lindat1078 de et

[@levlevin182]

Dobe dobe do. What were the chances we turned out to be peacenicks in the night?

[@khornelor6]

God is everything even you, god is another word for universe, and in a way we are a way for the universe to understand itself

[@DerGoRaN96]

yes, balance is important

[@carinaannamenyier7078]

Yes, It's been that calm around me in the last days and I've already begun to miss challenges to feel alive whatever 😂

[@healinghouse2]

Thank you❤

[@urvashigadekar1313]

Grateful thanks ...…...🙏🏽

[@omnipresent1215]

@ 12:10. This reminded me very much of the many 'Karens' we are seeing these days. Complete lack of the required 'dimmer switch' as Eckhart poses so well.

[@mindlovesera]

감사합니다 선생님 🙏 많이 배우고 있습니다.

[@ninamosti4402]

❤Thank you

[@AliAsadZaidi]

Thankyou❤

[@jonc7330]

Eckhart...the very best at adressing absolutely nothing ;) Still i think he is a nice and kind human beeing :)

[@StephyChou]

Beautiful ♥️♥️♥️♾️

[@NDC-d9s]

Yes !! So very true

[@mullergyula4174]

I used to have a very strong sense of being a soul. These days as we see artificial intelligence rising we can see that extremely complex structures like the brain have a huge potential and probably can give the experience of consciousness.

[@todayinthewoods1332]

Eckharte has talked often that the “brain” is the radio that allows the signal of Conciousness or our Beingness to flow into our human form rather than the music getting “made” by the radio - or as the metaphor goes rather than Conciseness or Awareness getting created by the brain. Destroy the radio and you have not destroyed the Source or the Music only the transmission of it into an immediate form

[@philwyatt2176]

Thanks ✌

[@NDC-d9s]

Yes !!! So true !!❤

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

Existence does not co-exist with a measure of its own absence. Infinity is immeasurable!

[@neilhundtoft4873]

Dualism is a necessary condition of thought, but it doesn't reflect reality, which is non-dual. Our first thought is “me”, which implies all that is “not me”. Building on this initial falsehood, we project our “knowledge” of the entire universe. The beautiful thing about this fundamental error is that it is required in order for us to learn who we truly are. We can only come to the truth by recognizing what is false. It is logically impossible for one to exist apart from the other. That's how knowledge works. We come to realize that we didn't come into this universe. We came OUT of it! Our false belief in our separate existence was a necessary pre-condition to learning of our true inter-being and connectedness with all. Our ego is not a bad thing. It represents a phase in our growth. It's failures and short-comings are the very necessities that bring us to reject our identify with it as we come to learn the beautiful truth. Peace and light to all.

[@NDC-d9s]

Until you have learned from it , it will, in fact, repeat itself ..

[@DavidBausch]

Consciousness and subconscious, in this sub dimension we must control our thoughts for what ever we think will manifest itself, death us not permanent, every night we die when the brain reboots itself and without doing this we go crazy, in meditation we can shut off the brain and be aware without thought

[@S3eauchemin]

Slow down folks, less doing, more being. 🙃

[@NDC-d9s]

So true !!!!!!❤

[@nashahowkins3875]

HOW DO YOU MAKE THIS BLOODY MAN GO AWAY. HE COMES ON MY FEED RELENTLESSLY. HOW DO YOU STOP HIM 😱😱😱

[@amitasong5391]

赞叹随喜❤ 阿弥陀佛🙏

[@rogerlin9602]

4:55 Can you stop your continuous, useless, and self serving thinking? Then being seeps into human. You start your problems. Ego loves problems and enemies. This is completely asleep. Thanks Eckhart. 23 June 2024.💖💖💖💖💖🐌🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@wildwader]

❤

[@NDC-d9s]

Yes !!

[@MrJimWinter]

Being human

[@samshuijzen]

I read once that ET was created by Opera Winfrey.. and thought geez, is it.. well then she has definitely left a legacy. For anyone reading this, yup.. there's a lotta rabbit holes out there.. whether you're a rabbit or a bird of prey, hunter or the hunted..what a world, let's take the challenge of to intend Total Freedom. 💕

[@SillySpanish]

Im currently more stuck in the being part

[@wthomas5697]

Initiating action involves contraction. Or in other words it's a fear generated activity. Survival oriented. There's no way around that. It's the way our body/mind operates. How soon an action's natural momentum can be realized is another matter.

[@ahn0x]

I kinda get it in theory, but don't see how to enact it when it's demonstrably true that being chronically ill/increasingly debilitated by misdiagnosis is happening to me too. For e.g., with Chronic Pain, reactivity to it isn't great, but it's also really difficult to not react to it. The material realities are still the same.

[@NDC-d9s]

Yes !!!!!!!!

[@ScottLea-es2qw]

I get that 😊

[@MzNettyBird]

🙏

[@nikolajroguschin736]

❤

[@DJSTOEK]

❤❤❤

[@mohsinrahman2815]

Does anyone else get a feeling of pressure around the temple when going into the space? Is this normal?

[@BLACKWomeninMUSICFestival]

🌹

[@hammerbet7140]

Seems like this video and many others were re-uploaded just with another name.

[@Berkanann]

I am a you man.

[@NikolaSekuloski]

I guess you are introverted being present yourself in one dimensien and kind of get out of your head to enter the other dimension that looks extroverted. I'm giving guesses.

[@maggiemustudios]

The word in English is mankind.

[@robertopuccianti8498]

🙏🌻🧡

[@robertopuccianti8498]

@EckharttTolIe tanck you very much Eckharrt, love you..J m sorry but my english is very limited 🧡🌻

[@zeke6099]

The gender-neutral word in English would be "person", no?

[@rns69]

Yes I was thinking that too

[@FR3EDEN]

The self limited version of what is believed of WHOMAN 🐝ING

[@NDC-d9s]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@nashahowkins3875]

🔶PLEASE HELP !!! 🔶HOW DO YOU STOP THIS BLOODY TEDIOUSLY BORING MAN COMING ON MY FEED ?? RELENTLESSLY

[@jpelx81]

It happens with me also. There are a few gurus whom I intensely dislike but they keep on appearing in my feed. I can not block them!

[@brigitteschlipf6182]

Ivh verstehe kein englisch

[@aammssaamm]

Untertitel -> Automatische Übersetzung

[@Aliens-Are-Our-Friends2027]

Humans have the ILLUSION of a past. Past is literally imaginary (imagination)

[@aprilcollier4462]

I guess some people think this is having multiple social media accounts..😂

[@adamcombs4953]

😂

[@ronjohnson4566]

there 3 dimensions eckhart.

[@brendank7465]

Only 3?

[@NDC-d9s]

😅😅😅

[@NDC-d9s]

😅😅😅😅

[@Ihgdj-qr5un]

این چالش بیرونی به سمت خودتان صدا میزند

[@maelmitchell7207]

It would be advantageous if, in your talks, you would use the word "we" in addition to "you". 🙏😊

[@mariehaverty8209]

🤷‍♀️

[@SharaKennedy]

How about just take accountability for your part. Talking about “we and you”… I am you and you are me and we are all. Doesn’t matter what he called us. Let’s take accountability for our own part. Please and thanks God bless

[@veraintuizione6497]

You are right. The ancient Romans already used it. It is called plural maiestatis i.e. the use of the first person plural instead of the first person singular. It is an inclusive us.

[@Bobsbigbuoy]

Eckhart is never going to read this anyway

[@FromTheHood2TheWoods]

Who cares about proper grammar. Seriously??

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

BEING is not a dimension. Infinity is not balancing Itself with “another.”

[@MarcelCramer]

He is explaining bits and pieces that are derived from advaita vedanta, buddhism, krishnamurti, and gives it ‘Einen Tollen Twist’. No new information.

[@SimoneLorraine]

Interesting that your own ego has perceived Eckart to be taking personal credit for having expressing his own spiritual insight that he apparently just stole from other enlightened teachings , he often makes reference to the other sources that you for mention . I doubt the Dalai Lama views Eckhart’s spiritual expression the contempt.