Communion - Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now

When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen.That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space - space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give. Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of listening is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that.

Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion. No relationship can thrive in that way, and that is why there is so much conflict in relationships. When the mind is running your life, conflict, strife, and problems are inevitable. Being in touch with your inner body creates a clear space of no-mind within which the relationship can flower.

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Tai,  I love what Eckart Tolle says here.  What a deep rich communion when we listen not just to words but to the silence that surrounds the words.  With and in our whole beings!

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Kathy - it seems like a more “feeling” way to communicate, a more intuitive way…
When we draw ourselves into our center, we listen from a more balanced place, so then when we communicate, the communion/communication becomes more balanced and whole/holy..

Thanks for responding
Love Tai

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Just reading and listening to you two… I see this working right away.  It's poetry to life.

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Doc Childre, Self Empowerment

The advancement of our society will be indicated by a much more peaceful cooperation and communication within all people systems, and especially within oneself. This achievement will come about as a result of new breakthroughs in the areas of intuitional development.

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Eckhart Tolle - THE POWER of NOW!

He shows how to convert anger to cleaning your room as one good example by expressing it and bringing presence to the inner level. You can choose to express or not express by transforming it in the moment recognizing it as energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_FSLoZ0V4g

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Eckhart Tolle - There are two sides to compassion.  In compassion, the seemingly opposite feelings of sadness and joy merge into one and become transmuted into a deep inner peace.  This is the peace of God.  It is one of the most noble of feelings that humans are capable of, and it has great healing and transformative power.  But true compassion, as I have just described it, is as yet rare.  To have deep empathy for the suffering of another being certainly requires a high degree of consciousness but represents only one side of compassion.  It is not complete.  True compassion goes beyond empathy or sympathy.  It does not happen until sadness merges with joy, the joy of Being beyond form, the joy of eternal life.  pg 163/164

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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle - found it to order a copy. If this isn't in the Gaia Books section yet it would be so worth posting with a link to this discussion.

“True compassion goes beyond empathy or sympathy.  It does not happen until sadness merges with joy, the joy of Being beyond form, the joy of eternal life.”

This is so true and enlightening to me.  I do know that just being stuck in sympathy can be just some way to get attention but true compassion and understanding would be coming from joy and much more responsible.

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Hai Lee,Tolle also has a newsletter that you can get in your e-mail.Check it out.
roamer

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It is an excellent read!

The nature of compassion

Having gone beyond the mind-made opposites, you become like a deep lake.  The outer situation of your life and whatever happens there, is the surface of the lake.  Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to the cycles and the seasons.  Deep down, however the lake is always undisturbed.  You are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you are in touch with your own depth, which remains absolutely still.  You don't resist change by mentally clinging to any situation.  Your inner peace does not depend on it.  You abide in Being - unchanging, timeless, deathless - and you are no longer dependent for fulfillment or happiness on the outer world of constantly fluctuating forms.  You can enjoy them, play with them, create new forms, appreciate the beauty of it all.  But there will be no need to attach yourself to any of it…..

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A question…..

When you become this detached, does it not mean that you also become remote from other human beings….

On the contrary.  As long as you are unaware of Being, the reality of other humans will elude you, because you have not found your own.  Your mind will like or dislike their form, which is not just their body but includes their mind as well.  True relationship becomes possible only when there is an awareness of Being.  Coming from Being, you will perceive another person's body and mind as just a screen, as it were, behind which you can feel their true reality, as you feel yours.  So, when confronted with someone else's suffering or unconscious behaviour, you stay present and in touch with Being and thus able to look beyond the form and feel the other person's radiant and pure Being through your own.  At the level of Being, all suffereing is recognized as an illusion.  Suffering is due to identification with form.  Miracles of healing sometimes occur through this realization, by awakening Being-consciousness in others - if they are ready…

pg 162