Bearsy

Where should I start? I've seen a lot of his quotes floating around and I follow him on Facebook but I don't know where to begin.

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yo.

So you just don't begin anywhere ??

Who is he?

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Bearsy

Eckhart Tolle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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clive

the power of now

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SageTree

Preferable at the beginning of the book. I always gets f-ed when I read it backwards


Seriously... I have no clue. Never read the guy.

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The Rev

I've only read "The Power of Now" and IMO, he has a sense of what he is talking about, but tends to wander off into his imagination with some of his ideas. The reason I think this is that, when critically examined, his ideas are occasionally contradictory, and tend to be dualistic.

I think he's the broken watch being right because it just happens to be that time of day.



The Rev

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scottishbastard

I've been reading his stuff and listening to his cd's lately but I don't know much about him except that he was depressed and homeless now he's happy and rich lol. I guess this question is directed mostly at sagetree

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Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
You think you hold the high hand
I've got my doubts
I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts
.....

And even if I have to go to Claremont
Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont
Let me go
Let me lie low

Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
And you send your dark messengers to tempt me
I come from Chino so all your threats are empty

- the mountain goats

shai_hulud

PM's bitch. learn it know it love it use it.

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"There are only three useless things in this world. Nuns' nipples, bishops' balls and an employer's praise without a raise."

Waves

legit mofucka, he is.

power of now, read it. if ur life doesnt improve at least a little bit i will send u 20 bucks imaginary money.

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Waves

The more the dysfunction of the human mind plays itself out on the world stage, clearly visible to everyone in the daily television news reports, the greater the number of people who realise the urgent need for a radical change in human consciousness if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet. This need, as well as the readiness in millions of people for the arising new consciousness, is the context within which the success of The Power of Now must be seen and understood. This does not mean, of course, that everyone responds favourably to the book. In many people, as well as in most of the political and economic structures and the greater part of the media, the old consciousness is still deeply entrenched.[40]

Eckhart Tolle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

People call him new agey but thats the sanest shit i ever read.

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scottishbastard

I have "a new earth" and the cd called "bringing stillness into every day life" his accent calms my nerve and i love when he says "one damn thing after another".

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Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
You think you hold the high hand
I've got my doubts
I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts
.....

And even if I have to go to Claremont
Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont
Let me go
Let me lie low

Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
And you send your dark messengers to tempt me
I come from Chino so all your threats are empty

- the mountain goats

scottishbastard

lol Its not ONLY for sage...I just trust his answers the most.

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Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
You think you hold the high hand
I've got my doubts
I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts
.....

And even if I have to go to Claremont
Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont
Let me go
Let me lie low

Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
And you send your dark messengers to tempt me
I come from Chino so all your threats are empty

- the mountain goats

SageTree

Well brother it's nice of you to wait for me to ask, but I've never more than looked at his books on a shelf. I think the only band wagon books I've ever read were 'The DaVinci Code' like 5 years after the movie came out and 'Third Jesus'.

It might be very cool stuff, and might be something I read some day. But when all the kids in 7th grade were flocking to this or that music, I never went in for a listen. Years later, I was able to sit and listen to it and never had to sweat being called poseur by a poseur. The music was good and I thought, perhaps it's too bad I didn't listen to this back in the day, but I'm sure my perspectives and memories would have been different than they are now.

So I just went to read some quotes by him : http://http://www.woopidoo.com/busin...olle/index.htm

A lot of this looks like appropriated Buddhist/Sanatana Dharma terms brought to modern language.

It might be a retelling that makes a lot of sense to people, but living in the 'now' or present moment, already has a language of that, that makes sense to me.

Thanks and I'm honoured you'd want to ask just me. __/\__

If you'd like to PM more about this let me know. Perhaps I'll listen to a speech or two by him and see what, if any, thing catches me differently.

But over all else, I'd like to encourage you to look for yourself

In kind
SageTree


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clive

just cus hes got a big jesus lookin beard doesnt make him the wisest person on the board, the power of now really changed my life, it sort of gives you a guide on how to live and approach things in life, alot of critics have dissed the book saying it's mumbo jumbo n a load of crap but you have to have your mind open when reading it, you have to feel the words rather than just see them as fact if ya dig?

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SageTree

Well just cause you're the wisest ass on the board, doesn't mean I still can't appreciate your opinion of the book



Thanks
SageTree

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Cerpin Taxt

Sounds like a read I'll need to partake in.

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SageTree

Welp.... I've listened to several interviews and talks.

I think it's great there is a venue for people to have a language accessible to them which explains self, ego and the present moment awareness.

Like I said, I have found a language that addresses these topics for me, but perhaps if I see it floating around a used book store cheap I'll give it a read.


What makes you think to ask Bastard?

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scottishbastard

Sage: his main message is as follows....The human ego was developed to give us "higher thought" but has turned into whats blocking our evolution into aware beings. He believes the ego is a world wide mental disorder. Your ego creates a story about yourself and an image of yourself which you think is you, but there is a deeper you that must be discovered so we can evolve.

He was a depressed vagabond for years until his "enlightenment" at age 29 (same as buddha and jesus).

Anyways he takes ideas from buddhism, suffism, the bible, zen, and mysticism

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Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
You think you hold the high hand
I've got my doubts
I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts
.....

And even if I have to go to Claremont
Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont
Let me go
Let me lie low

Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
And you send your dark messengers to tempt me
I come from Chino so all your threats are empty

- the mountain goats

scottishbastard

I just like how he brings eastern philosophy of zen to the busy western mind. And I have realized that my ego is obsessed and repeatetive (spelling). My image of myself is based on my story ive made up for myself. It should be about something deeper than that.

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Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
You think you hold the high hand
I've got my doubts
I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts
.....

And even if I have to go to Claremont
Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont
Let me go
Let me lie low

Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do
No matter what I ask of you
And you send your dark messengers to tempt me
I come from Chino so all your threats are empty

- the mountain goats

Waves

whats wrong with helping oneself terry?

if theres anything this world needs right now its people to help themselves. guess what aint no one else gonna do it.

sounds like youve got one shut-ass third eye. needs some squeegeeing.

pisses me off that this kind of stuff is frowned upon by the mnstrm while they sit in their dark movie theatres watching their soul-less movies of people killing each other and shit blowing up. (not u terry...u listen to joanna newsom)

fuck.

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On this life that we call home
The years go fast and the days go so slow