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This came up in episode 4 of the series where Oprah and Tolle were going through the book A New earth. You can see the episode here:

The question comes up 35 minutes in where a mother of an autistic child asks why so many people like here still feel guilt even though realistically they are doing all that they can.

For example a stay at home mother feels guilty for getting bored playing with her child while a mother who is working feels guilty for not being with her child.

Tolle says this is to do with the structure of the Ego, not the content – but what is the difference between the two?

Continue reading “Ego Structure and Ego Content – what’s the difference”

In pondering self exploration I seem to be coming across an ever growing  world of people who believe in things which cannot be proved. I had thought this concept was mostly confined to those who believed in religions but not so.

I’ve also recently spent some time with a friend who buys into the idea that water has memory while at the same time – at the other end of the scale – I’ve watched such things as Richard Dawkins ‘Enemies of Reason’ work.

Continue reading “Retreat from reason, n=1”

So many methods of self-discovery suggest the route involves resolving psychological conflicts that you have. Not all. Buddhism based thinking, for example, is more about initially observing the conflict rather than trying to resolve it.

When you observe, they say, you disassociate yourself from it which gives you the opportunity to see it from a different point of view. Something that you felt was stressful, for example, becomes something that energizers.

Continue reading “New German Medicine and Total Biology – can you think yourself better?”

In my search for meanings and answers I’ve come across dozens of offerings from people or systems which claim to hold the key.

They have ranged from religions (from Christianity to Paganism) to semi-religions like Witchcraft to Buddhist based approaches.

Continue reading “Who requires a leap of faith”

I’ve been having an excellent discussion with Attila Orosz over at his blog ‘Mediation for Beginners‘. His three year old article 13+1 DEFINITIVE SIGNS THAT SHOW YOU ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED is a great way to bring people who think they have ‘got it’ when it comes to enlightenment back down to earth.

But one part of it that bugged me was Attila’s assertion that an enlightened person cannot be happy all of the time.

Continue reading “Why is being happy so damn hard?”

If you have read Tolle or De Mello you will soon realise that I am not about to reveal anything new but perhaps attempt to explain it in a way that is easier to understand and more accessible.

Achieving happiness is surprisingly simple but can be incredibly difficult, it all depends on your starting point which we will find shortly.

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Optimistically Eckhart Tolle believes that an increasing number of people are becoming self aware in the true sense of the concept. More people are understanding that material wealth is not the path to happiness.

He describes this as the next step in human evolution. We are evolving both physically and mentally all the time as a race but Tolle and many others like him believe if we do not evolve in this way more rapidly we may well destroy ourselves in the near future.

Continue reading “Is awareness the next step in human evolution?”

Many of the spiritual leaders who talk about spiritual awareness tend to bang on about ‘understanding’ a great deal.

In my first few readings I had missed what they meant but I went over De Mello’s Awareness again today and this time heard him say it was how to “see people for who they are“. This is not what you think it is!

Continue reading “Understanding explained”

I went over what is reality and what is illusion in Understanding Reality and Illusion but I was thinking about this issue of how to live in a world that has so much illusion.

First though, if you missed it, the difference. Reality is how things are. Illusion is any label that people put on those things, any human constructs.

Continue reading “Living in the illusion”

For years, when I have dabbled with enlightenment, I heard the kind of story where a person goes to a wise man and asks advice. The wise man’s response goes something like “Who are you that asks the question?” or “First you must know you?”.

My response has always been “Stop dodging the question, saying annoying phrases and get on with being wise!” To me this was all part of the smoke and mirrors that being a ‘wise man’ was.

Continue reading “Who is I? – those annoying mystics and their questions”