Practicing Presence in the Gaps: 20 Minute Meditation with Eckhart Tolle

In this 20 minute meditation, Eckhart shares how we can notice the gaps and silences and be present while doing so.
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[@mokuho]

Meditation is to be conscious without thinking

[@jabba0975]

I started this video, and my newly-adopted skittish cat that isn't interested in human touch curled up on the chair next to me and started purring.

[@veraintuizione6497]

I love your 🐈❤️

[@susanls2909]

Cats. They’re very good at feeling the good vibes :)

[@esmeeuneputty7304]

Cats are our zen teachers❤️

[@KikiAndJeffreyPearl]

We are all energy. Animals can read energy very clearly. We love animals and it’s amazing how many we see in nature and how they come close. They feel they are safe. I saw a Fox just this morning, it stopped and looked at me for a moment. A beautiful thing

[@karenkeltie7733]

Presence. Vv

[@GooseTheFlick]

Eckhart, I was contemplating suicide, as I have done for many years. And your teaching helped me out again, as it did 4 years ago, and it is a miracle.

[@chrystalp3086]

That makes me very happy to hear :) You deserve joy, peace, and all good things friend, I mean it

[@robinantonjuj]

Good that you're still here

[@MedicinesMan]

Glad you found Eckhart and yourself.

[@timmalley5532]

So did you read his book four years ago? And now you have the videos ?

[@GooseTheFlick]

@@timmalley5532 I read the book 4 years ago.

[@tessotess]

I'm grateful to Eckhart, to everybody and everything that make these videos available to us 🙏

[@jingwenwu9412]

thank you Eckhart for the mediation!

[@vincechopard6481]

Thank you very much for this nice meditation.

[@sandstorm6605]

Thank you for releasing these meditations on a regular basis. It really helps to have something fresh to listen to every week, even if it is always pointing to the same thing 😂.

[@margaret-r8y]

Love eckhart,hes kept me grounded through a terrible trial.

[@lindsay5305]

I am trying to accept what is. Im not really sure how to do it. I try to be present. I try to be aware of the thinking or emotions, judgments etc. I know that if I were able to accept all that is, much of my suffering will be gone. I try "may I accept this". I think Im sensitive to egos. I try to accept them. I think its my ego that stops me accepting. I think that is the nature of the brain... to focus on threat. Im working against that anciently evolved system. Also against my conditioned mind. Fortunately my dad showed me presence. A magpie just called. Its 2.30am in Australia. Today I will try to remain in the space between thought.

[@bq1424]

The strongest statement is when you say “Thank You that I have it”. A weak statement is “may I have it” because in essence it is just a question and a statement that you need something. But when you say “Thank you that I HAVE IT” or “Thank you that I accept what is” your brain is rewired and learns that you have it already and it becomes your experience that you have it already and you also draw to you anything else that you say “Thank you” for as though you have it ALREADY.

[@sandramynard1046]

Eckhart is coming to Melbourne early next year, an available ticket is over $300, no criticism, would love to see him but can’t afford it. Such a wonderful man, love his humour. His videos help me immensely 🙏🙏🙏💕

[@jasnaantunovic3354]

This is the advertising machine around him❤️

[@cheryliantorno2915]

Love the silent gaps---time enough to breathe "God" in. Eternal thanks to you, Eckhart, as I too have found enough love of life within to cope with a chronic bad pharmaceutical reaction because of your wisdom in your books, audios, KZbin & oprah series. It is more valuable than family counseling to understand our essence is consciousness, as you so eloquently and effervescently convey it in EVERY transmission! Amen to you, Brother!

[@I_Am_Youniverse]

God is the ever present all pervading awareness/consciousness that you’re ♾❤️

[@rogerlin9602]

Beware of the silent gaps between words. Beware of breathing. Be aware of both silent gaps and breathing at the same time. There is knowing in the background, conscious presence, that is not thinking. It's vital to access that dimension in everyday life, stillness, not just during period of meditation. Awareness. Presence, Stillness. Spaciousness. Sense there is something there with no form. Consciousness is the foundation of everything, totally beyond doubt. You cannot doubt you are conscious now. Thoughts and emotions are built upon consciousness. Meditation is consciousness without thinking. Thanks Eckhart. 14 August 2022. 🌷🌷🌷🦋🦋🦋

[@belindanunez7850]

Mr Eckhart, I ask and give thanks to you for everyday redirecting me to my path. Thanks to you I've learned to hear my thoughts and listen to my surrounding. Sometimes I've woken up to look at my children, to really look at them or a tree without a question but , then I start questioning why I did that and everything comes back and I I kick my self when I do that. Everytime my mind starts to wonder, your messages pop up. Thank you from the bottom of my heart💖 Ps It's really hard

[@rogerlin9602]

Don't fight your thoughts. What you resist persists. Welcome your thoughts when they pop up during meditation. Talk to your mind like a dear friend: "Let's meditate together. It's really fun to experience awareness. Hear my breathing. Let's listen together...." Eckhart likes to emphasize that meditation should occur throughout the day, no big deal, rather than an exercise that takes up a big block of time. So be easy about it, then your egoic mind won't treat it as a big threat. Be easy about it, no purpose, no target to achieve in the next two minutes. Just breathe and know you are consciousness Think it's easy. So easy that you naturally do it many times a day spontaneously. Just like looking at your children's faces spontaneously and naturally. No purpose. No target. Your mind cannot possible create thoughts unless you are a conscious being. Therefore when your thoughts join you in meditation, they prove that you are a conscious being. Fantastic! You are a conscious being! 🦋🦋🦋🌿🌿🌿

[@belindanunez7850]

@@rogerlin9602 okay, I think I understand now. Thanks. Will try tomorrow🤗

[@BabaSamShelley]

I had a five minute presence practice, being here Now. The mind grew quiet, then the healing begun.

[@veraintuizione6497]

This so-called meditation is SO beautiful! THANKS to sir Eckart Tolle for always helping us not to get lost.....😥😰 The world and all its suffering sometimes scares me so much and I understand nothing anymore ... But it's better this way, it's very true, it's better to stay there where nothing can be understood. What is the use of understanding and understanding what then? Our mind, always lies to us! THANK you so much sir Eckart Tolle your teaching are a light on this darker world...,💓🙏

[@saranlavie]

Thank you Eckhart for this beautiful moment🙏

[@HellsBells-74]

Should spend more time with you in the morning Elkhart, needed that this morning 😊

[@misterwise1742]

Thank you Eckhart

[@vasilis1456]

'' ....and that's meditation , to be conscious without thinking...! '' ( Eckhart Tolle )

[@mokuho]

Being is awareness, presence...

[@wondergirl60s]

You get me calm and aware of of breath and you throw in the bits of irony and then I realize I’m getting the best giggle abdominal workout I’ve had in days! You slay me, E!🙏🥰 ❤️ Thank you for now.

[@mindsigh4]

reminds me of that saying "it takes one to know one.." the awareness in me recognizes/resonates/aligns with the awareness reverberating through Tolle .

[@jackiewilliams810]

💚Thank you

[@arlinegeorge6967]

As usual one of my great teacher. For more than a decade i am learning from you and many beautiful loving people. Your explanation always soothes me always. Sad truth in India people have to fight to prove that their God is mighty and obey, or else ? Specially religion practicing tantrik rituals ( occult) even the believer of Jesus Christ, and Muslims. I am grateful to the mighty indian Armed forces for they proved to a lady might is right i was forced to choose to become

[@mikeq5807]

Love Eckhart and Krishnamurti, among other carriers of wisdom. Just to add to what Eckhart said, meditation does not have to be absent of the operations of the mind. Also, meditation requires being conscious, but it also serves to make one more conscious, by insights and epiphanies. In fact, the purpose of meditation is to make one more conscious.

[@rogerlin9602]

It is a virtuous cycle.

[@rehanfarooqui2071]

Thank you so much

[@carmenr.r.8112]

Gracias 🙏🏼 💜 🙇🏼‍♀️ 🌈

[@SahasraraIm]

Thank you!

[@rogerlin9602]

You can doubt your so-called life. But you cannot doubt your consciousness, your universal and existential essence. Your brain does not produce consciousness. Brain receives consciousness like radio waves. Thanks Eckhart. 14 August 2022. 🌿🌿🌿

[@sheeplove3429]

Thank you 🙏

[@LUPITA-_]

Graaacias Eckhart Tolle. !! Por ésta meditación tan bien explicada y lentamente para poder asimilarla más profundamente., Saludos y bendiciones. !!!

[@lenasworld1089]

WOW, Eckhart, you and Allan Wats have shown me the link between theory (that I've absorbed so much) and the practice which entirely lies in one's "hands". The more inessential I "shake off" of me, I'm starting to understand how actually easy it is and at the same time how and why so difficult it was before. We just need to really want this and there it's start happening... How ever long that can appear to be, as long as one can continually want to get to the roots of own being, I truly believe that one is on the right path. Thank you ever so much. I'm grateful for people like you.

[@ritanissim2586]

💜 Wonderfull Eckhart 💜🙏

[@christinestone3552]

Thank you so very much Eckhart 🙏💜🙏

[@dereksmith8746]

Thank you Eckhart...🙏

[@Ani24123]

Thank you 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♂️🧚‍♂️

[@davidj231]

I’ve always felt as if the gaps were almost a kind of mechanism put in place to limit the audience to those capable of discerning the true message. My partially-conscious wife (bless her), simply can’t watch Eckhart’s videos - she gets fidgety/distracted and can’t spend more than a few minutes watching. Great video, thanks. 🙏

[@kingkangageo]

You are the man Eckhart 💜

[@pawansharma9545]

U r really a wonderful spiritual man.. Please make a video on how to silent chattering in mind..that is the problem of every human in this world 🙏🙏🙏 Love from india

[@pawansharma9545]

@TeXt Me: †①⑦①③⑤⑥④①①⑥⓪ Sorry I can't understand what u r saying and how I will text u and my request please make a video how to silent chattering in mind that is big problem for everyone in this world. And u r really a wonderful spiritual teacher who always help other humans in this world. Thank u 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@thedivineconnection-wholeness]

🌟Remember beautiful beings that 'what is most personally is most universal!!!'🌟

[@carmensophia8885]

Hello Mr. Tolle, i am so very thankful that you are sharing so many wise realisations during this lifetime with us. I am so thankful! Would you maybe see a possibility to use a microphone of higher quality for your listeners? That would make a big difference to me since i am sensitive with my ears ! Thank you very much. I honor very much what you are doing for all of us out of the infinite source of stillness! My love sorround and always be with you Mr Tolle! Good wishes from Carmen from the South of Germany

[@MalissiaCreates]

Yes… I have the hardest time understanding what he says on these home recordings sadly and I love his teachings.

[@beverleyoliver6799]

I put the sub titles on, that helps

[@user-ms7um1ge5j]

If I remember correctly, it was the great pianist Horowitz who said "I play the notes no better than others, but rest between the note , ah, that is where the art resides." Approximate remembered quote.

[@giselar.12]

🌸Thank you very much, for this interesting video.🌸😘🙏

[@fusantamaria]

Muchas gracias Eckhart por tus maravillosas enseñanzas... Bendiciones!!!

[@nikolllaaa1234]

Appreciation 🌹 Today I listened to Master Tolle's Essential mediation on beach total bliss 💫

[@nadinazir9994]

Ekhart Thole is the men gifted by God to us, I am almost all they conscious before my brain was using me 24/7 now my brain has no control over me its opposite.

[@barrie888]

you have been an enourmous help to guide me in quieting my mind form incessent pointless thoughts, thankyou

[@sylv1452]

Wunderbar 💚 🙏

[@rogerlin9602]

Sense perception. Thoughts. Feelings. You think these three things are life. They are all forms. Worries are forms. Past hurts are forms. Therefore you live a hypnotic life. Most of your attention is drawn to these three forms. When the forms stop, the light of conscious is still there. The universe, of which you are an intrinsic part, becomes aware of itself. It's conscious. You are conscious. You sense that conscious presence that underlies every form (your senses, thoughts, and feelings). Sometimes presence arises spontaneously. It feels good, alive, and joyful. You perceive without being burdened by senses that are conditioned. Thanks Eckhart. 14 August 2022. 🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹

[@cameliasaraev3693]

Multumesc.

[@yangyan4657]

非常感恩

[@SuviTuuli78]

Thanx🙏🏻

[@nabechannel1921]

🙏🙏🙏Thanks so much for sharing very important bless you 🙏🙏🙏💟💟💟🌴🌴🌴🌿🌿🌿🎋🎋🎋

[@Sketcher93]

I keep checking in to see if you got a new microphone system... I can't listen to these until you do.

[@CitrusSimon]

He does not care, he has known about it for years. He makes the videos for himself, trying to convince himself. Then he uploads it, then forgets about it. Totally egoic.

[@CitrusSimon]

@Khawar Ayub He has known about this problem for years, but has done nothing about it. He just likes to sit at his computer, press record, and then he starts talking. Then he uploads the video, and does not check the video, does not check or respond to any comments. Its as if he is making the videos for himself, trying to convince himself. And all of us have to listen to a audio that sounds like a teenager with a cheap laptop starting out on KZbin.

[@mokuho]

The fear is connected with stream of thinking...

[@judycassidy3786]

Thank you. For the first tine I "got" that thought, reactions to my thoughts, is no different than a movie. Is transmission going on, independentvof time and space? Like drafting with bicycles, it feels easier, more alive, when I participate in meditation with you.

[@subuddhadadaware3889]

Master Eckhart does not belieave in Words. Words belong to the world of sense perceptions and thats why he does not care about the sound quality of his voice recordings. Some people say that make people listen to low quality, distorted and noisy sounds, is to hurt their bodies. But eckhart listen to his voice from an other place, so for him this is only an idea. But luckily he uses gaps between the words. If not his words would sound like a car. His words are always the same, as if my inner dialog is his outer dialog. But maybe the gaps are always new and as i live my socalled life via sense perceptions i cannot realise this. Eckhart also bealieves in emptiness and for this is not a planned recording at least the background has a high level of senselessness. Think the switch behind his left ears is to lower the tinnitus, the stairs are to escape to higher levels and the plants do not need too much water or words.

[@nalakirkwood4425]

🙏

[@MUSABBPT]

Another great video sir. Thanks. But one small issue. Trebble is excessive and no bass in this audio. I am not sure wheather it's the fault with my device or your mic. Been following you since long ago. Musa

[@ghanem.sbaih87]

❤❤❤

[@anamarie8]

💐

[@katya1031]

I wonder what happen with his nose. It looks weird. Love ❤️ the message. Thank you

[@gradelcarmenlucero2819]

Si pudieran poner en españil tambien!!!!agradecida

[@joeymitchell5467]

My 11 month old grandson goes into the gap so easily .He will lose that over time.

[@anoridinaryhumanbeing70]

Osho started this :)

[@dianaciliberti1679]

💜☺️

[@inspirationalinstructors8420]

To whom it may concern, Please someone fixes the microphone, it sounds not clear and weird, Thanks

[@mikebowman9844]

I have blaring tinnitus. It is never silent to me.

[@mattexelby8818]

pleas get help with the audio! very poor sound quality, again. love the content but hard to watch/listen.

[@CitrusSimon]

He does not care, he has known about it for years. He makes the videos for himself, trying to convince himself. Then he uploads it, then forgets about it. Totally egoic.

[@CitrusSimon]

Make progress, or make excuses.

[@아나이구-l8i]

한국어 자막이 너무나도 필요합니다!!

[@kirstentherkildsen5908]

Nice meditation, but the Sound is realy not good. Difficult to hear the words from time to time.

[@akasha9597]

Can we crowd-fund you a better camera/phone to record from? its 2022 bro, this invaluable source of a human being should be presented in the highest quality.

[@CitrusSimon]

He has known about this problem for years, but has done nothing about it. He just likes to sit at his computer, press record, and then he starts talking. Then he uploads the video, and does not check the video, does not check or respond to any comments. Its as if he is making the videos for himself, trying to convince himself. And all of us have to listen to a audio that sounds like a teenager with a cheap laptop starting out on KZbin.

[@NishchalAgarwal]

Voice is not clear. Please fix

[@CitrusSimon]

He does not care, he has known about it for years. He makes the videos for himself, trying to convince himself. Then he uploads it, then forgets about it. Totally egoic.

[@ivanwesteurope]

Eckhart, please, do not smack like at 00:52, it is hard to listen that.

[@lalahappy3301]

Tod ist das Gegenteil von Geburt. Tod ist nicht das Gegenteil von Leben. Leben hat kein Gegenteil. Leben ist ewig. Leben ist reines Bewusstsein. Es heißt nicht leben und Tod. Es heißt Geburt und Tod. Das physische ist nur ein vorübergehender Ausdruck dessen was du bist. Der Tod ist ein Vorgang der Einigung, an dem jede Zelle deines Körpers beteiligt ist. Der Sinn deines Lebens, ist, es jetzt in die Gegenwärtigkeit einzutauchen. Wenn du den Sinn deines Lebens woanders suchst, wirst du enttäuscht werden und erfährst nur Leid und Frustration. Auf persönlicher Ebene, kann man den Sinn des Lebens überall finden, doch es gibt da etwas, was viel tiefer, weit über den persönlichen Lebenssinn hinausgeht. Das gesamte Universum befindet sich auf dem Wege seiner Bewusstwerdung und wir (die Wesen) sind das Medium, womit es dies tut. Dies ist der tiefere Sinn dieses Momentes. Die Fülle des Lebens, ist bereits da, hier, überall und jetzt. - und sie ist ganz sicher nicht in der Zukunft zu finden. 🍀🙏

[@osbo54]

I can't get past the sound on his videos. Raspy, hollow, tinny, muffled...not good for meditation.

[@CitrusSimon]

He does not care, he has known about it for years. He makes the videos for himself, trying to convince himself. Then he uploads it, then forgets about it. Totally egoic.

[@osbo54]

@@CitrusSimon ya know I was wondering about that. The man has made a fortune, so you would think he would make sure the sound quality was very good. I bet the paid program quality is good. Maybe because it's a freebee he doesn't care. I can't even listen to them because they are annoying.

[@CitrusSimon]

@@osbo54 He has known about this problem for years, but has done nothing about it. He just likes to sit at his computer, press record, and then he starts talking. Then he uploads the video, and does not check the video, does not check or respond to any comments. It’s as if he is making the videos for himself, trying to convince himself. And all of us have to listen to a audio that sounds like a teenager with a cheap laptop starting out on KZbin.

[@AleSaira]

Thank you 🙏

[@ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗΝΟΥΤΣΙΟΥ-ρ9ζ]

Thank you!

[@arlinegeorge6967]

As usual one of my great teacher. For more than a decade i am learning from you and many beautiful loving people. Your explanation always soothes me always. Sad truth in India people have to fight to prove that their God is mighty and obey, or else ? Specially religion practicing tantrik rituals ( occult) even the believer of Jesus Christ, and Muslims. I am grateful to the mighty indian Armed forces for they proved to a lady might is right i was forced to choose to become

[@chandnisingh8707]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Askmelaterokay]

Thank you.

[@arlinegeorge6967]

As usual one of my great teacher. For more than a decade i am learning from you and many beautiful loving people. Your explanation always soothes me always. Sad truth in India people have to fight to prove that their God is mighty and obey, or else ? Specially religion practicing tantrik rituals ( occult) even the believer of Jesus Christ, and Muslims. I am grateful to the mighty indian Armed forces for they proved to a lady might is right i was forced to choose to become

[@arlinegeorge6967]

As usual one of my great teacher. For more than a decade i am learning from you and many beautiful loving people. Your explanation always soothes me always. Sad truth in India people have to fight to prove that their God is mighty and obey, or else ? Specially religion practicing tantrik rituals ( occult) even the believer of Jesus Christ, and Muslims. I am grateful to the mighty indian Armed forces for they proved to a lady might is right i was forced to choose to become