Transcending the Illusion of Time for Spiritual Growth | Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle discusses how the concept of time hinders the awakening process, emphasizing the importance of being present in the moment. He explains that many meditators mistakenly aim for a future state of enlightenment, which actually obstructs their spiritual growth. Eckhart Tolle clarifies that the true purpose of meditation is to be present, not to achieve a future condition. He invites listeners to become aware of Being and sense perceptions without mental commentary, facilitating a shift from conditioning to pure awareness.
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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.

[@Sevenpiano]

It’s crazy that I fully understand every single word he’s saying, I can even recall moments I felt the exact same thing he’s describing. It’s even more crazy that most of adolescence we aren’t aware of this everlasting entity living inside and through us. Thanks for the upload. ❤️

[@Gaurav.P0]

Hey, what did you do to feel exactly what he's describing?

[@Daritejeff]

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[@suveshtrivedi4522]

asking who is the questioner, leading to a pause. Aka listening to what questioner is thinking, causing a pause - a taste that is beyond whoever is asking 😂

[@johngreen4683]

The ego only exists because of our minds thoughts, feelings, opinions and beliefs. The thought, feeling, opinion and belief that "Eckhart is the best" is only possible because of our engagement with our ego, without the ego Eckhart is neither good or bad, brilliant or awful, Eckhart simply, just is. It's out relationship with our ego (Everyone Got One) and finding a healthy ballance between the inflated and deflated ego that determines whether we or our egos are actually living our lives for us 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@martinscrapp7166]

So, Pride...the original sin, is still alive and well.

[@channeldeutschsport1494]

So why not listen to a rock, which also ,,just is".

[@traciwargo8003]

Thank you Eckhart-- this is so helpful! Love your sense of humor-- we all walk away smiling, laughing, & uplifted! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@zantecarroll4448]

i love eckhart and i love the fullness of life ❤

[@visionary.hannim]

'Everytime' thank you so much!

[@schwarzlosemrak]

Namaste Eckhart.

[@vickiecarey5214]

I really needed to hear this! Thank you! Cleared some things up for me. 😊

[@emma-tv2pv]

wonderfully healing to watch his teaching🙏🙏🙏

[@starstuff5958]

I had a vision of an aboriginal elder coming to me and saying "we are trying to teach you what time is NOT".......loved that. Time is an illusion made up by humans to keep track of life when actually all that exists in the 'ever present here and now"

[@TaraHelmadollar]

Bottom line before the black hole of time is u R not real. Ok? Just know that and move on. Stop trying to figure it out and just be. Hide your teeth! Hide. your. teeth! WE don't want to see them.

[@mayapatuel1459]

Eckhard u r so funny n lovable! Thank u 4 sharing light n love 🙏❤

[@yvonnas.6319]

Ekhard, you are the best!!❤ Thank you !😊

[@Pug1948]

I Love You Eckhart..❤️🙏☮️

[@eytschmaen]

There's no path, no progress and no time? Thank you Eckhart for ruining my day!!! 😅

[@jameshetfield5894]

😁👍🏼

[@garygreffe4522]

Haha you forgot "space", there Is no space😅

[@Sandma856]

As long as you believe it brother from another mother

[@chailloufrancois7121]

Yes and totally, it's a path less way .

[@suveshtrivedi4522]

Haha extrapolating further ..there is no you

[@naturalphilosophy9649]

"Become as little children"Jesus. 😌

[@mindlovesera]

감사합니다 선생님 🙏

[@janinestarch4499]

Always ALL WAYS love your simplicity of truth

[@sevi4492]

We are the only species on planet earth that we have Lost our way!!! We are crazy in a sense😅 Need to restore our mental health & balance it asap!! Thank you Eckhart for pointing out that!! 🙏 Love your books especially "New Earth" 🌍 much love 💞 to All!! Namaste 🙏

[@Andreas-gh6is]

That's not true...We as a species always had the capacity to not be in the moment, and it was necessary to achieve the longevity and even prosperity that affords us to sit on a park bench for a year after awakening (Eckhart Tolle's canonical history, at least). Nobody made us either way - neither the in-the-present mode nor the in-the-present mode. Early Humans probably spent most of their time in adolescence (they died not that long after), and before age 21 the attention circuits in the brain aren't fully developed. So there is no chance there ever was some original tribe of "awakened" Humans. Anybody that achieved that state has worked hard for it.

[@sevi4492]

@@Andreas-gh6is I am just say a simple fact my friend!!! We as species always had the capacity, as human history shows (many awaken People, we know few even nowadays as Eckhart, Rupert, Mooji etc.,) to feel our True deepest Shelf, our essence, our True Connection with everything & everyone & balance ⚖️ ego with Love & not give up on it's madness, (as history shows, World wars, today Wars, violence etc.) !!!

[@Andreas-gh6is]

@@sevi4492 name one awakened individual before Buddha...

[@DanielAlvarezFernandez45]

Gracias Maestro Eckhart Tolle ❤️ 🙏 🙌 💯...

[@marzenawasilewski8075]

Beautiful Thank you 💓

[@misterriktus151]

Time is the minds most stuborn filter.

[@peterphilip]

Best explanation of dasein.

[@evolucaoeconsciencia1681]

Tanks

[@janinestarch4499]

Linear time exists simply for us to learn there is no time but now.

[@ravenclause]

i really liked this talk. i didnt like the concept of a replacement, i think the thing that is shed is the personality, it is the personality which replaces the presence because of its collection of thoughts

[@annemarielong6719]

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[@rainingwords5775]

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[@Stevexeairoux411]

Live in the "Nowment".

[@philwyatt2176]

Thanks 🎉

[@annemarine]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️

[@marielinejuillard9495]

❤🙏

[@1CAngel123]

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[@Flying_Dutchman66]

Enlightenment.. You pay 💰 I play 😊

[@martinscrapp7166]

Tomorrow is not promised! Ecclesiastes 9:12 - ..._no one knows when their hour will come; as fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them._ Know Jesus, know peace. No Jesus, no peace. Luke 12:25-26 - "And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?" - Jesus Matthew 11:28-30 - "Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" - Jesus John 12:35-36 - "...Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light" - Jesus John 7:37 - "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." - Jesus John 8:31-32 - "...“If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” - Jesus 2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

[@NikolaSekuloski]

Feed your mind and body with as much as possible with knowledge sort intelectual art literature nature or be in touch with the fashion of today and then be free of doing or relax and listen LP.

[@parveenspath4007]

❤🧘🏾‍♀️🙏🏽

[@eddieburrelli]

𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐

[@ronamain8689]

I don't think people get the jist of his teachings unless they start with awareness of the personal EGO.

[@annemurphy8074]

The ego isn't even personal. Its just the movement and patterns of the conditioned mind. There is no "me" that has an ego. It's pretty funny actually.

[@johngreen4683]

@@annemurphy8074 who said that 🤔🤔🤔🤔😄😄😄😄🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@annemurphy8074]

@@johngreen4683 LOL

[@ronamain8689]

@@annemurphy8074 OK. But how does your ego operate? Like you have to be aware at all times! Then you realise how you behave.

[@ronamain8689]

@@johngreen4683 all your emoji things suggest you are certainly not an awake person! 😉 Hilarious 😂

[@zeroxox777]

Nothing you say has any value at all Tolle. I want to see evidence that you have understood what has been said, and if I don't find such evidence I will have to write a clear, comprehensive and unrelenting critique of your life and teaching, and consider the extent to which Western social conditioning, and the sense of privilege, entitlement and megalomania associated with the local social conditioning peculiar to Cambridge, played a role in the development of the mass delusion that you are enlightened and are in some way qualified to speak on matters pertaining to love, compassion and truth. Love and compassion is conspicuously absent from your work, as is humility, generosity and goodness. You take off your followers: you milk them and you grift from them even though you are already a multimillionaire and at the very least pretend to yourself that you are helping the spiritual cause of humanity, which one would have imagined would be it's own sufficient reward.

[@aditya21221]

Akele honese ghabraao mat akele hone ka maja lo❤

[@nikolajroguschin736]

❤

[@stephenflood3463]

Thank you for your trustworthy guidance as always Eckhart. Wishing everybody in the northern hemisphere a happy summer solstice!🙏🌍🌞

[@SimoniousB]

Especially here in the other hemisphere 😅

[@stephenflood3463]

@@SimoniousB oops, I meant to write in the northern hemisphere!😂thanks Simon, wishing you all well in the south too!

[@mariansaines5021]

We in the Southern one are suffering the 🥶 : driving more consciousness, hopefully😅👊🏽❤️

[@stephenflood3463]

@@mariansaines5021 Yes, there's nothing like a cold winters morning to awaken our sense perceptions.🥶😅 Yet the Earth is a beautiful place with all her polarities. Stay warm, stay safe, and be well my friend!❤️

[@ismaelmarksteiner]

The Truth is timeless. 😇🙏💚

[@sherrismith4254]

Yes, the truth is true!

[@NaliniSingh-d9e]

Thank you for serving ❤

[@nataliet1057]

BE here.

[@ciaranmurphy2953]

DO there l😂

[@msuniverse1663]

Thank you E.T ❤❤❤❤

[@paulvanspanje8201]

Thank you for youre guidance ❤

[@veraintuizione6497]

SO true.🙏 Entering THERE ✨ and laying down the weapons of our guilty ignorance does not require time because time really does not exist. Even physicists know this. IT'S not significant that our body ages. Our birth, growth and apparent death are just a spatial movement, an explosion of life that is needed for the ultimate goal, gaining awareness. Even fear is an illusion. Entering THERE takes only a moment, that is to say a breath of eternity and THAT IS forever, only eternity exists❤ SO grateful 💓🙏✨✨✨✨🌺

[@RhondaRalph-lv8mx]

I appreciate what you. Said. The horn has already been blown.❤😢 Lord of all.,

[@iampatsywoo]

I have been wanting to grow my new youtube channel impatiently in mind and this lovingly reminds me to just be. Thank you. ❤

[@anthonyangelis1094]

thank you et ❤❤❤

[@robertopuccianti8498]

🌻🧡🔥

[@lordbyron3603]

“ without any mental commentaries!…” That’s both hard and easy . It’s easy when there’s nothing that triggers my interest. But the moment something crosses my field of vision that I’m interested in - BOOM ! There’s a comment. Followed by another…. and another !

[@RobinWilson-ze6dp]

The Human perception of "Time." Is a construct of the Human Mind. Passed on from one generation to another. How did all life on earth understand "Time" before Humans invented their perception of it?

[@stephenflood3463]

They understood it by observing the movement of the constellations and the stars, the risings and settings of the sun, the moon phases, the ocean tides, and the biospheric cycles of nature. Man then put a measurement to it all and called it time. Thus, we should all know time as cosmic cycles rather than knowing it through our clocks and Gregorian calendar. Which is out of sync and artificial, and that is what keeps the collective human consciousness out of sync with the natural law of time, or should I say, out of harmony with the natural cosmic cycles of consciousness.

[@agokoovit5250]

Thank You!Your timeless messages always come on time!😊

[@x2x3456]

Been having a bad day, and I really needed this video. Thank you 🙏

[@mariansaines5021]

😓😘

[@yavuzseyhan53]

Turkish subtitle please

[@NancyBeaulieu]

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[@veralubov7405]

BRILLIANT, as always.

[@astroarunshah]

Love you Eckhart❤❤❤

[@rebeccagwyn5085]

🎉😊

[@anna-karinmaki720]

✨💖✨🙏🏻✨Thankyou

[@veirnon3822]

1st

[@linggan]

I have a question. This sense of presence can indeed be felt, but it cannot be maintained forever. It is just a brief glimpse. Does this mean it is similar to the feeling of happiness? After being happy, do you feel depressed? When there is existence, there will be a feeling of happiness in the heart, which is easy for readers who have read it early and have time to do.

[@lucieclinckers4100]

❤😊❤😊❤

[@gayanijayasuriya5478]

Tolle's speech tallys totally with Buddha's teaching. Yes, the strongest senses are eye & ear. Others are nose, toung & body. Once you are conscience about the present moment, the duality is no more. Your thought is there for that moment . All the present moments come & go. Do not stop. So, all these are senses & we perceive them as our world !

[@rezapourmaryam1653]

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[@Z-A-C]

Someone who calls himself jesus said “Seeing is believing” Believing - Proof - Knowing - Knowledge Without Proof, Believing is foolish. ‘Hear’say is all I “SEE” I’m just UNCONDITIONAL ZACHARY.

[@neiljeffers4746]

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[@maggietattersfield2859]

I would definitely stop and whatever I could to help🥲🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@DeniseCeccato]

It's a bit confusing. The same things all the time. I'm ok as I am and always have been.