Going beyond the Thinker | 20 Minute Meditation with Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart explores the concept of awakening as a process of un-learning, the vast dimension of consciousness that is beyond thinking, and entering the gap in the stream of thinking.
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[@rami_ungar_writer]

"Learning not to think." So difficult when you have ADHD and your mind is kind of wired to wander. Listening to him speak does help me relax and stay focused, though.

[@veraintuizione6497]

In same way we all are affected by ADHD. Just look at the world 😥😁

[@bonniecondon9076]

Listen to classical music as long and as much as possible.

[@buzz0688]

All ADHD is is one looping thought constantly labeling/judging the mind for doing what it's wired to do. I was diagnosed by a 2 psychiatrists with ADHD but realizing this helped quiet my mind and I no longer need any medications. ADHD is not the mind wandering constantly (the mind is supposed to do this). ADHD is essentially a negative thought loop coupled with the judging of one's own mind for doing what it's meant to do. Hope this helps. Namaste 🙏

[@diogoleitao8628]

Be the consciousness that is watching and don’t respond to any input from your mind. You can do like the zen masters “Enter zen from here” and raise the finger. Be aware of sight, touch, smell and the sensations from the body. Whenever you feel that you are again in the grip of thought, just move your attention towards the sensation again. To illustrate better how the movement should be, it’s not something you should be running from but like you were walking down the road and suddenly you remember that it’s from another direction. So you move towards that new direction without thinking and just walk fully present.

[@artlhomage]

Ditto.

[@diana.erika.333]

Hello from Mexico!

[@southpolebeach]

After I woke up at 17 years old all I see is an ocean of love. I’ve got someone with, I’m happy and fearless. Life is beyond the ego and if you feel like it, you can win at the game. Wish you all the best for your today and I hope you’ll smile tomorrow, and evermore.

[@darranthompson8202]

Hi I keep going back to this more n more but find it so difficult to stop thinking and getting confused which way to go but the penny will drop one day. Its like am at the tip of the iceberg and a long way to go. Glad u woke up years ago take care .

[@southpolebeach]

@@darranthompson8202 yeah at least you’re on the journey, some people just miss it altogether haha Wish you a nice Christmas

[@samsilva3625]

Do you have any tips how to achieve that?

[@southpolebeach]

@@samsilva3625 Be positive about yourself, give yourself a chance. This means much more when You are in the moment. Thanks

[@ppmppm7010]

I can remember being like that at 17 nothing was ever going to make me not happy I was driven by the idea that it was the only way. At 26 I got married

[@taewookrho9487]

Thank you Eckhart! Sometimes I forget your teachings and go into suffering. The thoughts become too much to handle that I can't even realize the spaces between the thoughts. Once again, your teaching made me realize and direct me to better choices. Thank you. Eckhart

[@veraintuizione6497]

....SO moving... SO infinitely TRUE ❤️🙏 .... AND I see the light in the face and eyes of the spiritual master E. Tolle...I see it and feel it and it moves me deeply ... The light of Consciousness... It's wonderful isn't it?..We are IT.. WONDERFUL...💓🙏

[@heidibussmann8048]

Sehr auch das Licht bei ihm

[@veraintuizione6497]

@@heidibussmann8048 totally true ❤️🙏

[@jensheister4264]

Dont identify with the form .

[@veraintuizione6497]

@@jensheister4264 In my opinion the Tolle's form is so crossed by Consciousness that it almost becomes luminous...It happens. Not to everyone, but it happens...🙏

[@rogerlin9602]

We are all ET, Extraordinary Transcendence. 4 December 2022.

[@StephanieJeanne]

Enjoyed this meditation. Be happy, be present today everyone! 💜✌️

[@shivtv6639]

Thanks for the reminder😃

[@rayzsp9623]

the only true satisfaction come from deep formless, the more i look outside the more frustrations i get, thank you Echart

[@bonifacedj]

Love this! Also great starting from 18:58 In ancient Greek philosophy, they often use the term "the good." What is the good? Where is the good? And, of course, we know what it is and where it is. The good is not in the world of form. The world of form is good and bad. Nothing stays good for that long. It either disappears or turns into its opposite. The good is within you, and it is the formless presence, the source of aliveness, of joy... the source of identity, the sense of who you are. The source of that is beingness, presence. Spacious awareness. I am.

[@Joe-peace]

Beautiful teaching today. Thank you for sharing.

[@backtothefuture19]

I love you ❤️

[@komolpanchee4183]

Eckhart teachs over 50 years

[@jimkrahn7079]

We are all on the same path , some are ahead and some are behind

[@johngreen4683]

Totally agree Jim, the race is long, and in the end its only ever against ourselves 🙏

[@toreycarlyle9953]

This is helping me thru Monday morning anxiety so much. What a gift.

[@jannie6359]

Mr. Eckhardt Tolle. You are a gem. A polished gem. Please know this effect you have rendered before you're gone.

[@janefrey7505]

This practice is phenomenal. Completely understandable to the human aspect . Thank you so much .

[@acimbobby]

the world of consciousness is not actually any type of phenomena. MoojiBaba explains this better than I

[@veraintuizione6497]

TRUE ❤️

[@kimberlysmith7311]

Thank you Eckhart 😊😀💞💨💨💨

[@jzu6661]

'Going beyond the thinker' I find so full of power as I try to 'embody' it...Eckhart!you should be in all our Universities... one professor made the remark that he, as a young man had attended four universities yet not one of them taught him the art of stillness! I am reminded too of T.S.Eliot who said for us 'there is only the moment and ridiculous the waste sad time stretching before and after' I see you as one who was sent at this point in time to translate or decode the words of Jesus to 21st century audience...your take on 'kingdom of heaven' is profound...what you call the 'inner spaciousness'! You are good news for humanity! Míle buíochas (Irish for 'thank you') to you Eckhart! B

[@ananto4j]

Thank you🙏

[@TerriblePerfection]

I didn't hear his words, just his soft voice, and then it was over.

[@Alex_Ptaha]

Thanks for real depth again

[@mahvash2811]

Thanks ET❤

[@ChangeYourLife1122]

namaste , appreciate the meditation✌

[@AHC44100]

I am deeply grateful to this man

[@mamagarcia]

Is this video recent? He really looks young 😅 if it’s recent he looks amazing for 74!!

[@chrisgosse8879]

Vivre au présent garde la jeunesse. Cette vidéo est ancienne et qu' importe . !!! Les messages d Eckhart soutiennent un nombre incalculable de Terriens. Et sont toujours d actualité. Je remercie sa chaîne tv.

[@bastian6173]

except his eye bags look so puffy... hope he will live a long time

[@veraintuizione6497]

He is crossed by Consciusness...

[@maikaa6096]

Hola desde España

[@tanis1111]

Thank you ♥️✨

[@danielamha304]

How insightful is this meditation. Session ? Thanks to Ekhart..

[@lovepresence6462]

Love

[@ramadevi2017]

Thank🙏 you Eckhart

[@dianeyoung8068]

Thank you Master Eckhart.

[@Mikemcjr]

I’m takin it a level above and livin without the stinker. That little stinker

[@DiamondCutter423]

great post.

[@susanhealey2431]

Thank you Eckhart just what I needed

[@freespirit9806]

I feel like my body is invisible. I am at Peace and that’s a great feeling. The devil comes at me with challenges and I recognize it as such. I don’t get angry so often anymore. And if I do I don’t stay there. Let go and let God.

[@jddr555]

No being as a devil

[@TroubleToby3040]

It's true; I are dense. 🤦‍♂😉 Great meditation. I feel wonderful. 👍👍👍

[@gabriellarujsz5741]

❤️🙏❤️ thank you Eckhart ❤️🙏❤️

[@tommyvasilev5012]

Calming

[@amayaarruti9482]

Gracias ❤

[@natureisallpowerful]

I used to feel really uncomfortable in the pauses, now I see its purpose

[@keyariemusicandmedia4639]

Are we the thinker and the awareness behind the thoughts?

[@carolemallette3494]

Ce serait bien si quelqu’un pouvait traduire cette méditation en français. Merci.

[@EckhartTolle101]

Let's talk 👆 on Tele gram

[@sp-gw7zl]

It's funny but this spaciousness came in a car after about 9 hours of being trapped and going through panic with my sister. We finally turned off the car and accepted the situation. We became still and quiet 🤫 the last 3 1/2 hour were complete stillness.

[@vintage_violet]

Oh my goodness Im glad you're alright. ❤️ The spaciousness is so freeing and calming, wonderful that you remembered it when you needed it.

[@davidc.2878]

Sound is too low-and I’m not referring to the pauses.

[@siddharthghosh1005]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻

[@6MoWo1]

Ubuntu my dear Eckhart... :-)

[@rockyp5246]

Hello Eckhart. Your teaching & techniques are refreshingly simple. There's no doubt "silence of mind" is revealing. However, how do we reconcile the part of us which is formless presence, when it disappears in states of deep sleep or unconsciousness? It appears consciousness or formless presence, for each of us, disappears when our body/mind expires. Is there an explanation? It seems that we, while living, can have access to consciousness or formless presence, but when we (mind/body) die, consciousness or formless presence abandons us (mind/body). It also appears that we (mind/body) will lose consciousness or formless presence forever as we (mind/body) are impermanent. In other words we (mind/body) will expire and then lose contact with consciousness or formless presence. Consciousness or formless presence is eternal but we will no longer be conscious of it. Apart from experiencing it while we are alive, what good is that to us when we will expire. We may be insignificant in comparison, but we are. Your awareness of consciousness is not mine? Could it be that "consciousness or formless presence" is accessible to us until we expire?

[@noraoconnor1895]

Tiff.i will of course pray for u. I send

[@brookeharrison16]

ET , question from Australia ☮️😛 what is the physcology of me seeing it as meaningless, yet I see you or others and I see it as meaningful for you maybe I should watch this gap video ????

[@bartekanonim1696]

Is the fridge at the same time a home equipment and electricity? Does it too have 2 identities? "You think you are a fridge but your true identity is you are electricity". Sometimes I can't understand what Eckhart is saying except for that...

[@evelynhughes3116]

is the conscious presence aware of the body in the space as a part of the space and thoughts going by as being real? like i don’t know if i should say the thoughts are just in the body or if i should hear them as very real part of reality outside of the body.

[@angelaachee7933]

✨💕🌟💕✨

[@janebogdanski9988]

Doesn't dense also mean "dunce"?

[@teresasinchak8121]

This man is so attractive, calming, magnetic and sexy!! Why can't more men be like him in the world?

[@growingwithfungi]

😊💚🙏✨

[@harisdiz.5817]

I AM.

[@ali60741]

Does any1 else get a scare at the end of these videos when the sound of the water comes?

[@EckhartTolle101]

Let's talk 👆on tele gram

[@paulinesantos1378]

No

[@ali60741]

It might be because I always use headphones.

[@paulinesantos1378]

@@ali60741 Don't be scared. It's probably the volume. Take care.

[@george5464]

Get rid of the clock next time please

[@rumikarapetrova5540]

Dear Ekhart Tolle, too much talking and thinking for a non thinking meditation. Kept my my alert continuously...

[@manjulaperera3317]

Zero comments.

[@RobbeyT1]

This afternoon I got so fed up experiencing all sorts of thoughts that kept incessantly arising. I tried to stop them but I couldn't and became so annoyed. Then I realized that thoughts are just arising, it's just nature doing its thing through the body/mind. In fact this person isn't a person, this is just nature appearing as a person. There's no person here doing anything, it's all nature doing things, sitting and drinking coffee, thinking thoughts, moving from here to there.... but it's all nature (or Life) doing these things through this "apparent" body. It's NOT possible to remain still except during periods of sleep and meditation, and after sleep/meditation the mind eventually becomes busy again. I can't fight life, there's no such thing as controlling it through processes and practice. Life will do its thing regardless of meditation.

[@Misslotusification]

However, once you have the felt sensation that you are not that separate self with all its worries and petty concerns, the body-mind tends to less identify with thoughts, especially the stressful ones about aggrandising or defending the fictitious self.

[@rogerlin9602]

The most dreadful thing is for human to know himself only as a thinker. Beyond doing, there is something more vital. That's being. To access being, you at least need gaps between thinking. Even a few seconds of cracks are good for peace and joy to come through. You can never sort out your life's "problems" by doing. 🦆🦆🕊🐞🐞🦋🦋🦅🦅🐌 Without thinking, you still exist as conscious presence. You can be aware of conscious space even as you think and do. Then you can enjoy life every moment. Joy comes from deeper space, is not dependent on spacetime happening. 🌲🌲🌻🌻🌻🌷🌷🌹🌹🌹🌿🌸🌸 You go through life embodying two dimensions, form (thinking and doing), and formless (presence, conscious aware space). The conscious aware space interpenetrates the world of form. Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form. Form and formless are one. There are two of you. One operates in spacetime. The other exists as conscious presence. You can observe how dense or spacious someone is. Spacetime is high density. Spacious presence is light. 🦅🦅🐌🐌🐌🐞🦆🕊🌷🌷🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹 Humans can never achieve perfection. Persons always have limitations. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48). Jesus refers to deeper perfection in wholeness (spacious presence). Ancient Greeks refer to "The Good". The good is not in the world of form, which is both good and bad. The Good is within you and formless presence, being-ness, I AM. 🦋🦋🐛🐞🐞🌲🌲🌷🌷🌻 You are Spirit. You are God. That's why you receive this video. Thanks Eckhart. 4 December 2022.

[@therealzeeb0]

Needed this right here! 💚💚🌍sending major love and light friend! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@AroundTowniCome]

Been feeling so lost lately. Listening to these videos feels like an anchor gently bringing me back to shore. They help me to feel like myself again.

[@johnsinclair2672]

You’re in good company with Eckharts teaching

[@vintage_violet]

Yes it feels like an anchor, a portal even, to the true safety/shore... ❤️

[@kolarz2128]

Same

[@yourcalmplace]

“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.” -Eckhart Tolle

[@massimofi]

Stillness speaks first chapter.

[@discardmyfriends]

That makes sense

[@ChildofGod98765]

Prayers are all I need so Please pray for me things are difficult on me at this time. As I continue to struggle putting groceries in my refrigerator and paying bills. I keep my faith in Jesus. I know God will see me through this hard time. Both of my children are autistic, I’m overwhelmed at times. Thankfully I put all my trust in Jesus. I lost my job as a social worker at Forsyth hospital because I declined the vaccine. I declined because of my pre existing health condition lupus and heart disease. I was denied my medical/religious exemption. I wish I could go back to the hospital but the mandate is STILL in place for hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid. I’m waitressing and I’m so THANKFUL to be working again, but I’m not making nearly enough to make ends meet. I get harassed and called names for simply asking for prayers, but prayers are all we need, because God hears ALL OF our prayers. It is JESUS that gives me strength to keep going. I have faith God will provide. He HAS THIS FAR. WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! Please pray for me and my children.

[@juergenbloh45]

I will do that for you and your children

[@priyanshusharma2516]

good times will roll again in your life I'm sure and I'm praying . good luck !!

[@chrisberry9017]

This time has a purpose. I am holding you in my prayers my friend.

[@veraintuizione6497]

Jesus's Consciusness is always with you. You are never alone. No doubt about it. 🙏❤️

[@usmanfayyaz2399]

Everything is going to be alright!! Your future self is at peace and prosperity. 💜💜💜

[@giselar.12]

Thank you very much, for this wonderful meditation.🌸🙏😊

[@kathyannk]

@Tele_gram me👉eckhart_tolle2 You’ve been reported. Go get a life.

[@lindsay5305]

Non judgment is where form self is neither good or bad?

[@rps8400]

Thank you so much for your presence in our lives, Mr. Tolle. You are loved, honored and appreciated! 🙏

[@kathleenwharton2139]

You are not just a thinker..You are Spirit too. Be Still and Listen! Spirit Will Help You with your life. 😊

[@Jacob115ify]

Pitter patter :3

[@mindfulnesswithmatt]

The pauses are pure meditative in their own right ☺

[@lauralunaazul]

He says, presence is between the words. Words are just pointers :)

[@lauralunaazul]

And, yes

[@silverhandle]

Yeah, the “pauses” between all form is where You Are. Also, You Are underneath all form as well ❤

[@kathyannk]

Non-attachment Non-resistance Non-judgement = Freedom Eckhart Tolle

[@Alex_Ptaha]

And a clear understanding of these terms 🫶

[@kathyannk]

@@Alex_Ptaha Yes, absolutely! I say these words often, always mindfully, or I should say consciously.

[@sheepshearer2705]

Who's watching this in bed ❤️🙏☺️👍

[@TheLionQueen]

Guess I'm not the only one... 🙂

[@ebwd1]

Me

[@johngreen4683]

Whatever turns you on I guess 😊 joke 👍👍👍👍

[@black_cat9207]

I love the pauses in this meditations, typical for Eckhart, few words, but so profound - stillness is here 🙏

[@justbe1451]

Greatly appreciate these times with you.

[@equanimity03]

The waterfall sounds in the end of all the videos often frightened me so badly , all of sudden after this quite and calm voice . 😮😅😢

[@joinlife1112]

Samen here...

[@liannemaas1928]

Yes! Same here

[@Misslotusification]

Take it as an alarm-clock to wake-up in the now.

[@paulinesantos1378]

It sounds nice to me though

[@equanimity03]

@@paulinesantos1378 I am glad , good for you . I usually on a siting position doing meditation while listening, the sudden sounds just scared me bec it was quite.

[@TheLionQueen]

It is difficult to not think even while listening to this. Feels like a conversation, but not... 🤔

[@kimberlysmith7311]

Be careful of person giving a phone number. For me its more like I am the presence who watches my thoughts. Something deeper then the thoughts. I hope that pointer helps. 🙏💞

[@johngreen4683]

@@kimberlysmith7311 good advice on the conman with the phone number Kimberly 🙏

[@lordwhite0]

The thinker of thought is also a subtle thought. Ignore thoughts completely, they feed on your attention to them. Going deeper, even your attention is a movement, the power of attention is perceived, by what is it perceived? "My attention", so it arises from the root thought "I", from where does this I arise? It is from Silence, from Peace. When the mind rests permanently in Peace, that is called sahaja samadhi, the natural state. Also called liberation or mukti, Maha Mounam or great Silence. You are everywhere and are the basis of everything (Shiva Sarveshwara). "Manjusri asked, World-honored one, what is the state of the unconditioned? Buddha said, The absence of thought is the state of the unconditioned." Let there be peace, joy and love among all beings of the universe. Aum Shanti Shanti Shanti. 😃❤

[@kimberlysmith7311]

@@lordwhite0 Thank you 😊🙏 💞💨💨💨

[@ArturBalthazar]

It's funny how Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher, but could very well be one of the best stand up comedians out there xD

[@Jacob115ify]

Doubtful, but he definitely can speak. Comedians travel at a breakneck speed usually.

[@Helen-jw6yb]

"Do you think you'll ever sort out the problems in your life? Never! You'll sort out one & two more will appear" .... hey! Thanks for that Eckhart!!! 🤔😂

[@irihapetidavis911]

Kia ora from New Zealand 💚

[@richardwitherow5289]

Aroha from Cairns.

[@GlobalEnglishSupernaturals]

Eckhart’s a n@zi for saying ‘it’s getting dark’ lol 😜

[@auroravioletlight]

❤️💜❤️💜 This was my birthday gift. I needed it. I've definitely been dense lately and now fed up of myself. Thankyou Eckhart, I appreciate this so much ✨x

[@ashishupadhyay5643]

Many blessings to you 🙌🇮🇳💫🌟✨

[@rogerlin9602]

Happy Birthday. E.T. is Extraordinary Transcendence. 4 December 2022.🦋🌷🌲🌿🦆

[@auroravioletlight]

@@ashishupadhyay5643 ❤️🙏🏻

[@auroravioletlight]

@@rogerlin9602 ❤️🙏🏻🌠

[@lauralittle6899]

December 3rd ?? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!🎈🎂🎁.It was my Birthday too ! Lol 👋😊🎈I hope you had a great Birthday!🎈

[@gloria6396]

ECKART S EYES R MY PLACE OF PEACE I REST IN THEM ITS WONDERFUL

[@Omnipresence101]

And he said unto him, why callest thou me good ? there is none good, but one, that is, God. " When he said be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect, the deeper perfection, the wholeness that is spacious presence."

[@antoniomunoz3950]

Please for all. Please for all disabled people we’re having a hard time I’ve been reading Eckhart Tolle books and been listening to him I have a condition called Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and two sons are taking of me.

[@shaunaashley5520]

ia it just me or is he aging backwards ?? was this filmed years ago ?

[@kellychelius7074]

Is it possible to be “dense” when it comes to knowing how to be a person, while retaining deeper spaciousness? This is how I would best describe my experience.... curious if anyone else has any thoughts on this

[@hellothereinternet]

this is now my go to twice a day, i love it ❤️

[@EckhartTolle101]

Let's talk directly on tele gram

[@zachharper216]

How do I maintain this state through out my day? It’s so enjoyable. Thoughts are a claim of meaning I just don’t need

[@silverhandle]

Relax into your heart and body, and simultaneously focus on presence itself ❤

[@actingeternity]

Good night 😂

[@TheJooberjones]

Yes yes, enter the void. Refuse to engage the mind, and before long that great space begins to reveal itself. Rather, you as the great space emerges. The mind will recoil at first, running back to safety. Its fine, just push a little more each day and slowly the machine dissipates and that you merge with eternity.

[@therealzeeb0]

Very well said friend 🙌🏾💯thanks so much for this! 🌍💚sending major love and light!

[@postscript5549]

Your words and silences and eye contact (via screen) are very helpful to me. I am unlearning. Thank you for sharing.

[@anazrinjski885]

I love Eckhart so much!!💗

[@Mikemcjr]

Eckart lookin young and dashing here

[@aichi337]

thank you

[@vincechopard6481]

Thank you for this meditation. 🙏

[@calmandcool8229]

Hi Eckhart 👋 Sending my love 💓 to you for a the wisdom you share with humanity.

[@likewater369]

Thank you🙏🙏🙏

[@ashishupadhyay5643]

Feeling peace 🤗 Thank you ☺️💞

[@silverhandle]

So fucking good ❤

[@petrasant5495]

I know of close friends and family who have major health problems. When I have negative thoughts, I think of them, it helps to put things into perspective. Peace to all.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Reflection is key in a world which contains almost none. Unfortunately, most people cannot see beyond the physical version. Yet the other three mirrors (mental, psychological, spiritual) are of far greater importance to confront. "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge: hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@stevekille6239]

Thank you, Eckhart. Your meditations are my favorite videos. I go back and watch them over and over. Your stillness touches my being so deeply. Blessings!