How Do You Use the Mind to Cultivate Joy? | Eckhart Tolle Explains

In this video, Eckhart Tolle shares insights and wisdom on how to leverage the mind to cultivate joy. He provides transformative insights on harnessing the power of your mind to experience lasting joy in life.
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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.

[@angelwolf5089]

I love the distinction between Joy and pleasure .

[@bruno.alves7567]

And here was I trying to chase that joy I felt days ago and finding myself frustrated by falling back into the old conditioned mind again. Thank you Eckhart! That's gold.

[@Jerome_111]

Sometimes we need to lose ourselves for a bit to find ourselves again 😉

[@meditationthien1662]

@@Jerome_111 Yes that right ❤❤❤

[@lunte6493]

why do we need that. i dont feel like i need it anymore

[@dianeyoung8068]

Maybe we need to stop chasing after something.

[@Tyzen222-sq5jh]

I hear you! That can be so easy to feel..that's why - one Eckhart a day, keeps the chase away ☺❤🕉

[@2choosewisely2]

destroying and abusing the mind is the greatest thing in the world. forcing it to comply and to do what you , YOU want it to do. that is pure power

[@melissaglueckskind]

"you were looking for something and missed nothing" 🙂

[@fizmusic9529]

That's crazy lol 😮

[@michaeljammer1261]

Whenever I feel scattered or uneasy, listening to Eckart's wisdom grounds my being. Thank you Eckhart for sharing your message.

[@Luketherapy]

This man has hardly aged. A testament to his theories that presence practice keeps you young

[@user-iw2nh7gl1g]

Being truly present is the key. I'm no expert and really enjoy Tolle's talks. Like how he discusses the difference of pleasure to that of being truly present. When you're truly present you don't need an outside thing to give you pleasure. It is intrinsically coming from within. There in lies the difference.

[@user-yn9sr7iw6g]

Whenever and wherever you find peace of mind and happiness that’s the joy of life

[@Violishy]

I instantly go back to the root of myself, the real “I”, every time I see his video. I’m so blessed to know him and his teachings after a long journey towards spirituality 🙏🏻

[@lisagilmore-wi9gu]

Everything is within you! God became man so that man may become God.. We must remember who we truly are.

[@Libre-ici-et-maintenant]

Paix sur vous ❤

[@anthonyangelis1094]

Thank you, thank you thank you❤

[@mokuho]

The true joy arises out of the state of presence

[@midnightblue2893]

Thanks Eckhart! 💜 💜💜

[@Super09]

Very excited that you coming to Cape Town South Africa next year, Hope to see you there❤

[@helixreggae]

Regards, thank you

[@DM-bd2vw]

Exactly what krishnamurti was saying. Empty the content of our conciousness to be free.

[@flowergirl7260]

The joy of being is so much different than the feeling of pleasure, which is dualistic. THank you for this clear distinction. Beautifully expressed.

[@Jerome_111]

For me it’s very much a neutral feeling of just having peace, and sometimes even joy and happiness arise from that state of being

[@SIERRATREES]

Yes, agree, the neutral feeling is accompanied by a deep acceptance and satisfaction, and not feeling any nagging want or need. @@Jerome_111

[@Pug1948]

I Love You Eckhart.♥️🙏☮️

[@buildyourownway]

Wow that’s cool to hear I’ve been meditating for a few months and now at times I’m way “above” my thoughts and feelings They just flow through me and I observe them. It’s been somewhat unusual and a little uneasy and confusing, but extremely peaceful. I was wondering what it was about and this video explains it well for me.

[@Carolynsideas461]

Ekhart Tolle this is excellent information, an earth changing message and brilliant explanation of thought, opposed to awareness and Stillness; the importance of giving attention to Stillness as awareness in the midst of actions in daily life.

[@cheforyourpartyprivatehire9765]

The degree of absence of thoughts is your measure of progress on your spiritual path💫🙌💫Eckhart you are an angel in disguise🙏🙏🙏

[@dobmaster8208]

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress~Ramana Maharshi

[@gauravkajaria2455]

Gospel

[@ludwin439]

Thank you for mentioning Shrii Ramanas beautiful answer again I loved that one soo much :-)

[@jennifermizote537]

I’m laughing with you! Thank you for this clear way of pointing to joy ❤️

[@agokoovit5250]

Thank You!🕊It's amazing how you can share nothing through something!

[@karenhermann6208]

This video is very insighful to me because it speaks to a stillness a centering to do with the now so well.

[@carolinecaroline6567]

Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@dekogjorgjiev4893]

I wish you long and happy life Mr Eckhart, true wisdom

[@rogerlin9602]

11:45 Consciousness free of thoughts. This is the next step of human consciousness. We have come to the end of thoughts. Garden of Eden is symbolic of the rise of thoughts. Eat from the tree of knowledge. Judgments. To be identified with thoughts is also to be governed by time, in past and future, in memory and anticipation. Thanks Eckhart. 1 December 2023.⛳🍁🏘💖😎🤠😇

[@Beyou36999]

Thank you! ❤

[@ShellBell7]

Brilliant! 🫶🏻

[@stephenflood3463]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom Eckhart.

[@midnightblue2893]

Hi hun! 💜

[@stephenflood3463]

@@midnightblue2893 Hey Nicole, good to see you dear! 💜

[@midnightblue2893]

@@stephenflood3463 thanks you too! 💜

[@jandenotter5954]

Ein wahrer Mystiker❤

[@annemarine]

Thank you Eckhart ❤ What a clever man 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@alejoleonb]

Thanks Eckhart, regards from Lima 😊

[@mindsigh4]

Hi from California 🙏💜🕯️🌱🐾👣🌿🌎🕊️

[@tiacarrie2561]

Love from Kansas. 🌻

[@adikeys]

Gratitude ❤🙏

[@kaatkate9270]

Woow This is so usefull Thank you so much Eckart Tolle ❤

[@EckhartTolle]

Thank you for watching.

[@rogerlin9602]

9:01 Pleasure arises from form. It exists in the realm of opposites. What gives you pleasure also gives you pain. Joy is an aspect of being. Joy is your true nature. Don't look for it because it's not a mind object Just don't incarnate into thoughts. Thanks Eckhart. 1 December 2023.⛳🦆🍁🦆💖😎👍🍒🦋😂

[@CrazyCrEaTiveKid]

Such a beauty ❤❤❤ lots of love

[@HarmonyPill]

Our 'mind' is a 'Kalpavriksha' a Wish fulfilling tool. It works as a tool to manifest only if used the right way. Mind your mind and watch magic happen!

[@CClearly0]

❤ thank youv

[@Maryam-lk6wf]

This is such a great message, different from other messages he teaches, this seems to be way deeper.

[@greendei1382]

That's what I'm thinking. I'm 2 min in.

[@jettelecttro]

His videos are all so good, but this one seems particularly helpful.

[@z.letrich2694]

Sri Ramana Maharshi is often mentioned, inspired Him, bringing His thoughts - explainations closer to us by language of nowadays. Paul Brunton´s works are going paralell direction. Drew directly... .

[@Offnrunnen1624]

That’s sounds wonderful to be consciousness without the thought. For some, thought is a never ending continuum.

[@Amelia_PC]

Okay... you can make an artist crazy with that talking about joy and pleasure over a form XD

[@kimberlysmith7311]

Excellent Eckhart thanks. ❤😊

[@EckhartTolle]

Thank you for watching.

[@prodbyluxx]

It was amazing... I watch Eckhart's videos but this one hit way more different for me.

[@lordmacaulay8739]

Yes, this makes the difference between joy and pleasure very clear for the first time with me.

[@prodbyluxx]

@@lordmacaulay8739 absolutely

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for sharing this, wishing love, grace and courage for all to be open and look, feel and be here.

[@shirleysmith8565]

❤️🙏🏼❤️

[@anneberard7030]

So much gratitude for the teaching of Eckhart 🌷

[@rachelhovells]

Many many thanks and gratitude to you for sharing this video, Peace and love ❤️🙏

[@carol5205]

Beautiful transmission graciously received. So much gratitude. ❤❤❤

[@KamalGabry]

Blessings beloved Eckhart ❤

[@johngreen4683]

Nothing that is real is changed by our thoughts, opinions, ideas and beliefs. So what is real? That which does not need thoughts, opinions, ideas and beliefs 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@karinbliek3425]

Thanks

[@EckhartTolle]

Thank you for your support.

[@solocede]

Thank you so much Sir, I owe my life to you.

[@Jad3dJane]

Thank you Eckhart.

[@ToddSloanIAAN]

Amazes me how he appears younger in this video. It's an opposite that will disappear though.😜

[@christinatodd3912]

Thank you. Wonderful realiation. Ever present joy within. 💛

[@chasefancy3092]

Has the interactive bi - conditional contingencies in the mind's perception been endowed by fruition in substance? Children feel the greatest joy and pleasure from the simplest of things because their perception does not demand anything further. “ Maybe we’ve outgrown all the things that we once loved.” (Ref: Rise Against: Audience Of One)

[@stephenflood3463]

I agree with you. When we are children we are naturally infused with absolute joy and bewonderment of being alive on this Earth. But as we all grow older we become more and more aware of the dark nature of the world and also in ourselves then we soon lose the joy and bewonderment we once had when we were kids. And yet that is when our real spiritual awakenings begin where we rise above duality back to that place of light and joy.

[@amin_abdollahi_369]

Thankyou😊🙏❤

[@TheLUCIANA63]

Gratitude 🙏🏽

[@alexckelly1]

Happy holidays Eckhart and everyone! ❤❤❤

[@annette4660]

Thank you for this wonderful long excerpt. I keep listening over and over.

[@leilaelbakkali299]

Bonjour Mr Echart ,pouvez vous nous traduire ce partage en français ,s il vous plait? Merci.

[@lukebattersby9179]

Learn English on Duolingo! Je apprends français 😂

[@mattcastellanos2178]

Nice portrait of the human condition by Mr. Tolle. Rather than the yin-Yang of thought-spirit he again deftly sketches the balance of the thoughtful mind with nature/spirit. Enjoyed his use of unconditioned natural (animal) forms to illustrate here, wherein instinct are the seeds of thought.

[@SasankaDurov]

Sweetest Cáb rev

[@julieeagles4899]

Thank you

[@aldenyoung8767]

Thank you so much

[@ralfstarke7024]

100% true, thanks!

[@veraintuizione6497]

Very precious ✨❤🙏

[@jackeisenman1572]

Yès joy is our true nature

[@gaurav3290]

Beautiful video ❤

[@YuliaGrushevskaya-bi6he]

😊he is extremely consious

[@robertagiorgini4752]

❤❤❤grazie infinite grande anima❤❤❤🙏🙏🥰

[@MrFerdim]

Me encanta 🎉❤

[@RobertJohnson-gj3cl]

Joy is experienced when the mind is under the influence of Absolute truth the egoic thought has its’ essence in fear as to my identity.

[@Pray4safe]

Deep, my friend I personally have undergone trials leading to stripping me of ego, no love of self. As I was always awake but not aware. Happy that perception has passed.

[@meditationthien1662]

❤❤❤

[@d-lightful807]

That laugh!!

[@Bobsbigbuoy]

Forms actually do not make you feel good or bad. They simply distract one from the heaviness of mind activity so the happiness that is our natural state shines through. Pain is not inevitable when the form is removed unless one has misidentified the source of the pleasure, which is usually the case.

[@paulnelson2985]

End Times; simply means the end of not being present.

[@thekragh9077]

Does that mean death? Because I don’t want to 😢

[@SirFency]

I have not been able to feel joy. Just indifference.

[@chipsandsoda4373]

I've been following Eckhart for years and I still cannot accept the adverts.

[@mokuho]

Wow! 🙏 3:34

[@julieeagles4899]

Joy joy joy

[@zenabfaiad2504]

لو سمحتم هل ممكن الرد من مسؤول القناة رجاءا شكرا لتقديركم

[@2choosewisely2]

is there 'imperfect reincarnation' that needs to be adjusted and modified so it is 'better'?

[@lusinekarapetyan7431]

❤

[@DJSTOEK]

❤❤

[@Prophezora]

Anyone else here learn about Tolle because of Batel Skater?

[@paulnelson2985]

The nature of fear is to fear your nature.

[@adaoz6334]

💜🌿💜🌿💜🌿🙏🙏🙏

[@Edwardbanks1]

Most people are trapped by their own mind.

[@chiptowers1]

Let me break this down as I see it. But what prompted " you, yourself" to, quote; " identify with a thought stream totally". Something within must have past information to the physical brain which the mind is only a faculty of. So from where within the human body could you a person send a message to the physical brain to tell the non physical mind to cultivate joy. After all, thought of something is produced by thinking or occurring suddenly in the mind which would mean something gave rise to thought either by you/one seeing something or you/one received information from the physical storage center within all humans. Thoughts are physical with spacial dimensions but they only have information passed on by neuronal activity, that is a neuronal cell ( a nerve cell) that transmits nerve impulses. So from where did a thought come from to be passed on via the neuron's because neuron's just wait and pass whatever signal can activate it. The neuron does not store information ie thought does not store information. There is no trap to be trapped in, because you/one wanders in or out of consciousness or unconditioned consciousness at your leisure. There is nothing spectacular about unconditioned consciousness or consciousness because your physical source within that formed the intelligent species is equipped for you already knowing that " I AM" as opposed to knowing "WHO I AM". Hello! The unconditioned consciousness is a sense of knowing that " I AM" apart from knowing " WHO I AM"; the consciousness of, being divorced from that which I am conscious of. Don't believe me, checkout Google for, what is " unconditional consciousness" Thats the major problem with teachers and Guru's, they don't have a clue how the physical source formed the intelligent species and therefore they cant recognise that only a physical source is PRESENCE and a non physical tool used by the physical source holds no information nor identity. No need to watch the video past the 5;19 mark, you would be doing your imprinted knowledge a disservice. Allow yourself to be enlightened by your physical source PRESENCE, that is real JOY for your PRESENCE. ( chuckle chuckle chuckle)

[@Jninjaplayz]

How do you know when you are not thinking? Is there a feeling? Is it joy in a way of contemptment or excitment?

[@JokuRandomiPoju]

Meditate, don’t entertain your thoughts, just let them go. After awhile of practising, you can be in a state where there is no inner voice or rather you can dial the inner voice down and just be in stillness.

[@SoulDeepHolistic]

🙏 ❣️💕

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❤🙏✨

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[@yukio_saito]

I like him bearded ‍🧔‍♂

[@WeAllgodschildren]

Is this from omega