Here are three highlights from the last class that I thought were exceptional.
In the first clip Eckhart Tolle explores the idea that when the mind gets anxious and fearful the body reacts as if something was really happening. The body reacts by producing the emotions and contractions that it would if it were in the midst of a real situation.
In the second clip, Tolle tells the story of the ‘Duck with a Human Mind’. Two ducks get into a ’spat’ on a pond; since they don’t have egoic minds, getting over the incident is easy. What happens if it is two humans having the ’spat’?
In the final clip, Tolle speaks about two monks, one who carries a girl across muddy patch and sets her down and one who carries the incident in his mind for hours as they walk.
pete
Secret Simon said,
April 15, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Both the ducks and monks stories have really stuck in my mind. I have seen ducks behave in that way but the significance of it never occurred to me before. Can you imagine two humans doing something like that after accidentally bumping into each other in the supermarket? It seems like a ridiculous idea, and yet how wonderful it would be if through something like that, we could dissolve away our pain bodies – and with them road rage, violence, conflict, war…
Pete Reilly said,
April 15, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Secret Simon,
I believe it is possible. We can awaken to the present and remember that the past has no power over us…
pete
Srinivas Shastri said,
October 9, 2008 at 3:57 am
Thank you for this post.