Where Eckhart Tolle Went Wrong
Don’t get me wrong. I love Eckhart Tolle, I think he’s a fabulous teacher. There’s one thing I feel is missing from his teachings, and until I realized this key, I didn’t receive the benefits of his teachings, nor was I able to apply what he taught. Of course, I can’t possibly explain this in this short blog post, it would take an entire class to do this properly, but I thought I’d just point it out.
The issue is this: He encourages acceptance of the present moment, but at the same time dismisses the Painbody (you have had to have read him to know what I’m writing about). The key to spiritual awakening is the acceptance of ALL that you are, INCLUDING your Painbody. Perhaps he never meant to deny it per se, but I personally feel he has not adequately expressed how much we must express it.
All things brought into acceptance transcend to a higher plane of existance and are automatically healed. This is the key to everything.
Hope that helped!
The Grave Errors Made About Action
I got a comment once on my youtube channel, and it said something like, “Surrender doesn’t work for me anymore, I found I had to take action”. He was talking about the idea of allowing everything to be as it is that is detailed in my video included at the end of this post.
I was quite surprised that the idea of allowing everything to be as it is has been misinterpreted so gravely to mean inaction. I then met a few other people who thought that “allowing everything to be” meant not taking action. I was shocked.
We live in a physical universe, and action is part of the joy and beauty of it. We are here to take action, not transcend action. To live any other way is to live in denial!
Let’s take a step back: what do we do when we are not taking action? We are often ignoring a situation (not taking action), when we are in denial of our feelings about the situation. Case in point, the state of the environment. So many new age people are so disconnected from their bodies, from reality, from their home on the earth, that they don’t care at all about the environment. Yet, this is caused by pure denial, not by some spiritual ideal. They don’t want to feel or acknowledge their feelings and emotions around the havoc that it is, so they deny it.
The proper thing to do is to acknowledge the situation and then move to a place of the solution, instead of being mired in the problem.
Denial is the very anti-thesis of spirituality and is not spiritual at ALL! Read my previous post about Acceptance and Resistance. Acceptance and love is what will awaken you fully. Anything less will not suffice.
Where are you in denial in the name of spirituality?
Stages of Spiritual Awakening Video:
Resistance and Acceptance
There are only two main ways of being in the world: resistance or acceptance (love). All that feels good is energy flowing, all that feels bad is energy stuck. Which do you choose?
When you feel a bad emotion, it feels bad because it is resistance. You can choose to resist the resistance, thus creating energy being stuck, thus manifesting in your outer world as misfortune and mishap. Stuck energy = stuck and chaotic life. You could also choose to flow energy, by allowing it to rise and fall as naturally as the waves.
Remember, you cannot accept/love (flow energy) conditionally. ALL energy must be flowed as it comes up. This is the key to growth.
Which do you choose?
Actors in Your Play
It is difficult, but possible, and beneficial to see the reality of the world around you. Everyone around you is an actor in your play. Now, before you go off into some self-centered narcissistic place, let me qualify that this is deep spiritual knowledge that means you must treat it with utmost humility.
The reality is that people around you are all playing a part in your play, acting out roles that only show you your innermost beliefs and emotions. Let them go, and feel your inner truth. Is someone pissing you off? What inside you is causing you to feel that anger? The easiest and shortest way to do this is to feel emotion expressing through you. Sit with your feelings, dance with your feelings, sound off with your feelings… just don’t take them out on someone else. This is YOUR stuff.
Tough lesson, but you didn’t come here to escape, you came here to reach your ultimate truth and be free. This isn’t hard, you just have to be brave enough to face yourself, not fight yourself, but love yourself.
It’s pretty much a waste of your time to figure out why someone did something or why something happened on the outside. It really helps you a lot more to just go inwards and ask: “How did I create that?”, then you go right to the source instead of chasing the symptoms.
Uncreating Your Reality
It is very phenomenal work, and I do not regret spending my time on it. I did move on after several months on it because I felt it was not the whole picture. Haven’t you ever felt that with a teaching you have been studying? You sometimes end up feeling that there is something missing.
In Robert’s work, there is a central process that he recommends. I’m going to share it with you, along with some of my own interpretations and additions. Is this the entire story for enlightenment? Probably not, but it’s a good, interesting piece of it :-).
This process is centered around realizing that everything that is created in your reality is simply an illusion. It’s not actually real. The process is centered around taking your power back from an illusion that you have given your power to. This is a very empowering process if it is done the correct way. The trick of this methodology/process, is that you have to be truly surrendered to whatever happening. If you are trying to take your power back from an illusion because you do not like it, you are in fact empowering the illusion because your feelings and your vibration are more powerful than your thoughts. You can think all you want that you are okay with a particular reality that is taking place, but as long as your feelings and your vibration are saying otherwise, you cannot truly take your power back from that manifestation.
With that in mind, I will present to you Robert Scheinfeld’s process, with additions and further ideas from me for improvement:
Step 1: surrender to the moment now. Allow yourself to merge with your higher self, that being that is you and is so much bigger than you. Be that now. Let go of your childish pretend power that is your small self, and realize that however hard you try, it is your big self that is driving the ship. So stop fighting it, and let yourself merge with your higher self now so that you can start co-creating as your higher self. Once you are your higher self, you will be participating in the creation process.
Step 2: think about the situation that is bothering you. Don’t go into the story too much, just enough to kind of get you feeling the feelings. Now, dive straight into the feeling, no questions asked. Just feel those feelings as deeply as you can. Completely surrender to them, allow yourself to be in absolute surrender to those feelings. Just allow the feelings to float over you, around you. Be with them, as if they are long lost relatives, embrace them, loved them. They are only here to serve you. They are your vibration, they tell you what you are creating.
Step 3: the feelings may still be going strong, or they may start to change their vibration to a lighter, easier vibration. When you feel the feelings start to move, continue to move them. When the time is right, start to affirm to yourself, “I am the power and presence of source creating all of this. It is all an illusion. It is all completely made up.” Ensure that this wording is coming not from a place of denial, but rather from a place of an acceptance. This step is absolutely crucial. If you ignore this step, you are only giving more power to the illusion. If you love, and accept the creation that you are faced with, the power that holds it in place is gone. Your higher self is always moving, it is always fluid, it is always in the flow. When you resist things, you hold onto them, and this gives them more power. So make sure you are coming from a place of acceptance and love, and from there, you are declaring that this creation is an illusion.
Step 4: from this place of acceptance, surrender, and love, you will then say: “I reclaim my power from this illusion now!” Feel your unlimited power of being of Source. You hold the power of the entire universe. From this place, reclaim your power from this illusion that is in front of you.
Step 5: now, feel power coming back to you, feel it coming back to your higher self, the entire being, all of source is getting the power back. Feel it coursing through you, through all of your being, filling you. REMEMBER, WITHOUT FEELING THE FEELINGS IN STEP 1 AND WHATEVER FEELINGS COME UP IN THE OTHER STEPS, YOU CANNOT RECLAIM YOUR POWER!!!!
Say: “I feel the power coming back to me, I feel myself expanding and becoming more of who I really am as the power and presence of God. I am filled, I am complete. “
Step 6: feel appreciation for this power coming back to you, this power was previously in the illusion, but because you have allowed yourself to feel the feelings that were fostering the illusion, you can take your power back now. Celebrate!
Step 7: Appreciate the magnificant illusion you created!! What a strange story you made up! You have to give yourself a pat on the back for that!
This step is important! You are cementing appreciation, love, and acceptance of the illusion! If you find further feelings against the illusion coming up, then continue feeling those. Just surrender to them, don’t try to get rid of them. What you resist will persist, so don’t resist your feelings, they are your friends. Just be with them, love them.
When you’re ready, appreciate your creation! That was sure a detailed and incredible illusion!
Repeat as often as you need to, whenever discomfort comes up around an illusion you created.
You can find the original process in Robert Scheinfeld’s book “Busting Loose From The Money Game”.
My Favourite Mantra
One of the most powerful mantras known to man is the Moola Mantra. It is said that chanting this mantra will bring peace and spiritual awareness to you, even in the most difficult circumstances. So here, I present to you the moola mantra, for your peace.
Om
Sat Chit Ananda Parabrahma
Purushothama Paramatma
Sri Bhagavathi Sametha
Sri Bhagavathe Namaha
This is a recording of me saying the Moola Mantra so that you can learn the correct pronunciation. I am half Indian, have studied Indian languages for many years, and have lived in India for many years.
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What is the meaning of the Moola Mantra?
I have lifted the following text from: http://www.omoneness.com/moolamantra.html, with thanks.
This mantra evokes the living God, asking protection and freedom from all sorrow and suffering. It is a prayer that adores the great creator and liberator, who out of love and compassion manifests, to protect us, in an earthly form. This Moolamantra has given great peace and joy to people all over the world, who have chanted, or even listened to it. It has the power to transport ones mind to the state of causeless love and limitless joy. The calmness that the mantra can give is to be experienced, not spoken about. Dear reader, here is the key with which any door to spiritual treasure could be opened. A tool which can be used to achieve all desires. A medicine which cures all ills. The nectar that can set man free! All auspiciousness and serenity is yours simply by chanting or listening to this magnificent Moolamantra.
Whenever you chant the Moolamantra even without knowing the meaning of it, that itself carries power. But when you know the meaning and chant with that feeling in your heart then the energy would flow million times more powerful. Therefore it is essential to know the meaning of the Mantra when you use it.
The Mantra is like calling a name. Just like when you call a person he comes and makes you feel his presence, the same manner when you chant this mantra, the supreme energy manifests everywhere around you. As the Universe is Omnipresent, the supreme energy can manifest anywhere and any time. It is also very important to know that the invocation with all humility, respect and with great necessity makes the presence stronger.
Full Meaning
Om
Om has 100 different meanings. It is said ‘In the beginning was the Supreme word and the word created every thing. That word is Om’. If you are meditating in silence deeply, you can hear the sound Om within. The whole creation emerged from the sound Om. It is the primordial sound or the Universal sound by which the whole universe vibrates. Om also means inviting the higher energy. This divine sound has the power to create, sustain and destroy, giving life and movement to all that exist.
Sat Chit Ananda
Sat
The all penetrating existence that is formless, shapeless, omnipresent, attribute less, and quality less aspect of the Universe. It is the Un manifest. It is experienced as emptiness of the Universe. We could say it is the body of the Universe that is static. Every thing that has a form and that can be sensed, evolved out of this Un manifest. It is so subtle that it is beyond all perceptions. It can only be seen when it has become gross and has taken form. We are in the Universe and the Universe is in us. We are the effect and Universe is the cause and the cause manifests itself as the effect.
Chit
The Pure Consciousness of the Universe that is infinite, omni-present manifesting power of the Universe. Out of this is evolved everything that we call Dynamic energy or force. It can manifest in any form or shape. It is the consciousness manifesting as motion, as gravitation, as magnetism, etc. It is also manifesting as the actions of the body, as thought force. It is the Supreme Spirit.
Ananda
Bliss, love and friendship nature of the Universe. When you experience either the Supreme Energy in this Creation (Sat) and become one with the Existence or experience the aspect of Pure Consciousness (Chit), you enter into a state of Divine Bliss and eternal happiness (Ananda). This is the primordial characteristic of the Universe, which is the greatest and most profound state of ecstasy that you can ever experience when you relate with your higher Consciousness.
Parabrahma
The Supreme Being in his Absolute aspect; one who is beyond space and time. It is the essence of the Universe that is with form and without form. It is the Supreme creator.
Purushothama
This has different meanings. Purusha means soul and Uthama means the supreme, the Supreme spirit. It also means the supreme energy of force guiding us from the highest world. Purusha also means Man, and Purushothama is the energy that incarnates as an Avatar to help and guide Mankind and relate closely to the beloved Creation.
Paramatma
The supreme inner energy that is immanent in every creature and in all beings, living and non-living. It’s the indweller or the Antaryamin who resides formless or in any form desired. It’s the force that can come to you whenever you want and wherever you want to guide and help you.
Sri Bhagavathi
The female aspect, which is characterized as the Supreme Intelligence in action, the Power (The Shakti). It is referred to the Mother Earth (Divine Mother) aspect of the creation.
Sametha Together or in communion with.
Sri Bhagavathe
The Male aspect of the Creation, which is unchangeable and permanent.
Namaha
Salutations or prostrations to the Universe that is Om and also has the qualities of Sat Chit Ananda, that is omnipresent, unchangeable and changeable at the same time, the supreme spirit in a human form and formless, the indweller that can guide and help in the feminine and masculine forms with the supreme intelligence. I seek your presence and guidance all the time.
This is a beautiful rendition of the Moola Mantra:
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Feel the power of this Mantra by practicing it regularly.
Question of the Day: What would love do now?
Drinking water structured with the Grander board and the Heart Opening Stirwand and blessed with Love and Gratitude. It feels soo good!!
This is so cute. :) Imagine if all us adults had big gatherings where we got in the center of a big community circle and did something like this? What a positive energy it would create!! http://ping.fm/Er7XD via @youtube
Do your thoughts create your reality? Not really. http://ping.fm/RTDl4
Do your thoughts create your reality? Not really.
2) does everything that you want happen?
3) when unexpected things have happened to you, have you specifically thought about those things? For example, before something good or bad happened to you, how do you indeed been thinking about that specific instance happening to you? Has this been true for every situation?
The point I’m trying to make is that your thoughts do not indeed create your reality. It is in fact, your consciousness, or your vibration, that creates your reality. Your consciousness and your vibration will also create the thoughts that you have. It is pointless to assume that our thoughts create our reality, because we all know that we can force ourselves to think happy thoughts when we are sad, or thinks sad thoughts when we are happy. Many of us have had the experience of repeating affirmations for years on end, and not having them come true.
So what really creates our reality then? It’s that deeper part of us, our consciousness, our emotions, our vibration. These indeed attract the reality that we experience as well as the thoughts we experience. That’s why a thought without a corresponding match in vibration will not occur.
So let’s work on our vibration, we can figure out ways to raise our vibration by:
- Allowing our emotions to move by feeling them, dancing them out, crying, etc. (a separate blog post on that will be coming up)
- meditation
- being aware of ourselves
- listening to our intuition
- spiritual awakening
- and a host of other ways
One of the biggest ways we can increase our vibration is simply by surrendering to the present moment. True surrender is really letting everything be as it is, including our thoughts, our feelings, the people around us, our circumstances etc. When we are in true surrender, we automatically merge with the divine, and we are in our enlightened state.
This is our highest vibration, and in this state, our thoughts will be in tune with the highest vibration. The best reality that is for our highest good is automatically created in a state of joy and presence.
Your Present Vibration Creates Your Reality, Not Your Past Thoughts
We have this thing going around in the new age world saying that our past thoughts create our present reality, and I’m here to say that indeed it is NOT our past thoughts that create our reality, but our present vibration.
According to quantum physics, all possibilities exist at every moment. That means, every possible outcome already exists, it is not “waiting to be created”. Thus, wherever you are RIGHT NOW, every single possible outcome exists, RIGHT NOW. Infinite realities are all happening right now, and you experience whatever you become aware of. You experience the “reality” that you are a vibrational match for. If you are a vibrational match for sorrow, because you have stuck emotion in your body, you will then be aware of the “reality” that is creating sorrow.
The reason it SEEMS that our past thoughts create our reality, is that our vibration takes time to “catch up”, thus SEEMING that we are “catching up” to the reality, but in fact, it is our vibration catching up to the possible reality that already exists.
To learn more about this aspect of quantum physics, I recommend reading The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot.
Therefore, what I’m saying is that we are empowered to create our reality in every moment. We do not have to wait for our past vibrations to catch up, our past thoughts to catch up etc. the only reason it seems that we are playing catch-up, is because our vibration takes time to shift from one level to another, say from sadness to absolute bliss. However, the universe does not work in the past, because every possible reality already exists right now. By tuning in to the new reality in this very moment, you can shift your vibration to the new reality at exactly this moment, thus changing your reality completely, and creating seeming miracles. This is why, in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmMNlmn1DPc, and you will see a seeming miracle being created very quickly.
No longer do you need to be bound by the past and the false belief that your past thoughts create your present reality. This is a difficult concept to explain, so I really hope it is clear, but if you have any questions, feel free to comment below.
Stay tuned for my next blog post explaining how it is your vibration that creates your reality, not your thoughts only.
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