How to Enter the State of Zen | Eckhart Tolle Teachings

[@dianeyoung8068]

There is nothing sweeter than practicing presence in nature.

[@onreact]

Yes, that's too easy though. When you return home will you be able to stay present in urban chaos?

[@dianeyoung8068]

@@onreact Yes, it certainly helps. I go out in nature every day, it is a practice in presence. Throughout the rest of the day, I carry some of that stillness with me.

[@evelinel.9827]

@@dianeyoung8068 Isn't presence always here? Therefore we don't practice presence we tune into the present moment which is always here.

[@dianeyoung8068]

@@evelinel.9827 Sorry I didn't word it to your liking

[@elijahbrown7285]

I agree

[@bordercollie1140]

I think Alan Watts described the state of Nirvana beautifully when he said it's like an exhale of breath when you're relieved about something. More or less going "phew".

[@johngreen4683]

Love Alan Watts, way ahead of his time in introducing Eastern wisdom to a Western audience 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@bordercollie1140]

@@johngreen4683, Couldn't agree more my friend 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@johngreen4683]

There are some excellent After Skool videos on UA-cam, where Alan's original talks are played behind some excellent sketched drawings explaining his words. Well worth checking out if you haven't already 😊🙏🙏🙏

[@nidzaraosmanagicbedenik3808]

My best experience:
When I become aware of the story (often unpleasant) in my hed, connected with unpleasant feelings (fear, sadness, anger) I take pencil and write down my story with connected feelings. So, the story lives on the paper, not in my mind and not in my body anymore! Great experience 😊

[@MaggieBurgerSmit]

Eckhart is so funny! 🤣 love to you 💛💫

[@AniaBumba]

Eckhart, the spiritual comedian! I am grateful for your wisdom and for the laughter. I love you.

[@twinflameessentials]

I love to watch you just be, your beingness is so contagious 🤩

[@gurudra]

The mind is a loyal slave but also the most dangerous master🙏

[@Paul-dw2cl]

he makes me smile

[@recordgirly2567]

Thank you Eckhart ❤ 🎶 ❤
No way to control thoughts but found it useful to put a "space" between me and the thoughts by simply saying, "Look at all these thoughts! Now that's a thought!" etc and then these thoughts will not only become separate of me but it also pushes me into the observer, my soul. It's also like a flashlight shining light on these thoughts ... and the thoughts quickly dissipate, because darkest can not live in the light!
I just love this quote!
You need not leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, simply wait.
You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet
And still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you
To be unmasked. It has no choice;
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka

[@markfuller]

_" It's also like a flashlight shining light on these thoughts ... and the thoughts quickly dissipate,"_ That reminds me of 8th-grade graduation. The entire class went to Disneyland for celebration. Riding the Haunted Mansion ride, I reached forward to knock on the back of the car in front of me (containing two classmates). I was acting up, being a delinquent. Suddenly an employee is standing next to my moving car (with my classmate sitting next to me), a flashlight pointing down but enough light that I could see in the corners, cables laying across the floor, very unfinished (scolding me). From that moment, nothing about that ride was the same. I suddenly had a depth perception I never had, realizing there's a lot in the shadows I can't see. The dark shadows contained something I couldn't forget. "This isn't real."
Awakening has been like that to me. When you get glimpses, you can't un-glimpse it. You know this is how it is (even if you can't see it as clearly that moment as the moment when the flashlight was on).

[@stephenflood3463]

Danke, Zen Master Eckhart.

[@wildsoulalice252]

Be the Zen. Step into it whenever you like.

[@yourcalmplace]

"The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another."

[@denisetroest9090]

Simply beautiful ❤

[@johngreen4683]

I agree, such a simply truth. If only it was as easy to continuously put into practice as it is to, explain fully understand and truly accept as being the truth, but for me personally it's a continuous work in progress 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@heikeahlbory1738]

If we were able to choose there would be no Problem whatsoever❤
Who or what ist it that seems to be choosing?
I am ( is) not the doer or the thinker.
All comes through Grace only.❤

[@johngreen4683]

@@heikeahlbory1738 very true that, none of us get to choose the thoughts we get, and it's really important to accept we don't actually have thoughts actually get thoughts whether we want them or not, much like emails and post. The majority of what we get is junk mail and there is absolutely no way to stop the junk coming, but we do get to choose whether to allow the junk to upset us or simply recognise and accept for the junk it truly is and let pass without interfering with our peace, happiness, and enjoyment🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Nadyamantra]

Thank you. I needed that reminder at this very moment.

[@NondualityChannel]

Reminds me when I heard it said that you could think of meditation as practicing listening. 🙏

[@Meli.Just_be.]

🙏🙂💜

[@Pug1948]

I Love You Eckhart..♥️🙏☮️

[@beatemichaelis6186]

Herzensdank ❤❤❤

[@frankmurphy5]

I'm gonna start saying that I'm going on a pilgrimage whenever I go for a walk.

[@lindsay5305]

Nice

[@midnightblue2893]

Thank you for sharing Eckhart! A good reminder that listening nature is also a portal to Zen. 💜

[@mommaboombam3764]

I'm trying to practice maintaining my zen state while dealing with other people and situations. Its an Ebb and flow .TY again for your video.

[@internetmail3888]

So many so called spiritual gurus on UA-cam and yet the original biblical message to mankind was that only those who seek God directly without any intermediary in prayer have understood spirituality.

[@recordgirly2567]

We're so lucky to get to live The same time dear sweet Eckhart lives! ❤ The ultimate goal is no thought, that's where presences is. Where the observer, your soul is. But just jumping to no thought (especially here in America with consent busy thoughts streams) is next to impossible for most. So the "work out" is necessary to train the mind ... that the Observer is in charge. Focus on breath, soon thoughts will come, the moment you become "aware" that you're back to thoughts BLAM that awareness is the Observer!! But the mind is powerful with a lifetime of control, and will quickly take back over. But that's ok ... bring it back away from the thoughts to the breath over and over.
Picture doing curls, when the weight comes up you're in thoughts, consciously lower the weight and bring it back to the breath, over and over AND over ... It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life and took me weeks of "training" before just alittle "shift" of starting to be in control of the mind with longer and longer periods out of thoughts. I'm not going to kid you, it takes a while and oddly, learning to have relaxed focus is difficult, kind of like a tug of war. In a few weeks I started to see progress and after several months I started to have control over my meditations with longer and longer moments in presents. Hopes this helps!

[@iamshebeeloloindigenous]

Doesn't matter where you are it is achievable. It is the I AM in you regardless. Peace and power

[@amitn3671]

Hello

[@amitn3671]

Hello

[@recordgirly2567]

@@iamshebeeloloindigenous true!
You need not leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, simply wait.
You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet
And still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you
To be unmasked. It has no choice;
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka

[@iamshebeeloloindigenous]

@@recordgirly2567 Beautiful. Gratitude 😊

[@bpiedfort]

Thank you! ❤

[@helixreggae]

Regards, thank you

[@lindamutch191]

Nature is me… me and nature are one. Thank you.

[@veraintuizione6497]

Zen stories are so beautiful...✨🙏
Endless thanks 💓🙏

[@PracticerOfMetta]

Thank you.

[@zenvibesforyou]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful zen story❤.

[@amin_abdollahi_369]

Thankyou💚💚

[@funnytv-1631]

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” - Maya Angelou.
You might have a tiny, wobbly step to celebrate. If so, bravo! You might have already integrated a change. If so, bravo! Even when you’ve ignored things for a little while, notice that right now, you are here.
Give yourself credit. Delight in the beauty of the butterfly and don’t forget to stop to appreciate the changes it has gone through to get there.

[@iamshebeeloloindigenous]

Beautiful..😊

[@stephenflood3463]

The metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly. I love it!

[@winsvibe]

Beautifully said

[@hemispheres500]

Beautiful explanation. We, our lives are all a collection of story and event. End your relationship with identifying with the story of you and what happened. You are and only ever have been just the witness of the story. In other words, that which knows there is a story attached to the body and life you are apparently living. ❤❤RW

[@johngreen4683]

99% of our happiness is a direct result of the stories we tell ourselves, or more accurately the stories our minds and other people tells us to believe and we listen to. The more we accept what is without the need a story to explain to what is and why it is, the happier and more peaceful our experience of this beautiful journey called life will be. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@recordgirly2567]

No way to control thoughts but found it useful to put a "space" between me and the thoughts by simply saying, "Look at all these thoughts! Now that's a thought!" Etc and then these thoughts will not only become separate of me but it also pushes me into the observer, my soul. It's also like a flashlight shining light on these thoughts ... and the thoughts quickly dissipate, because darkest can not live in the light!

[@johngreen4683]

@@recordgirly2567 that's excellent thank you for sharing 👍 it's important to put space between ourselves and thoughts with a short go to phrase that helps us reinforce the separation between ourselves and our minds thoughts . The most important thing is not to rationalise the thoughts as this involves our getting involved with them and giving them lots of energy. One of my favourites when my mind is busy and produces lots of scary thought stories about the future is to initially just say to my mind "" you worry about that if you want to, but personally I'm happy to just wait and see " I then simply shorten it to" I'm happy to wait and see " each time my mind produces any negative thoughts for the rest of that day. Disinterest and non involvement are key because as you say none of us can control the thoughts we get, we can only choose our response to them 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@hemispheres500]

Ramanamma Who? Is the Guru's Guru. He explains who we are, why we are here, and what is happening. Ignorance is not just the enemy of reason it is the enemy within mankind. One of our purposes is to defeat this ignorance within us. The book Making sense of nonsense by Raymond Moody is the skill required to achieve the enlightened state and rid the mind of the ignorance that holds us all back. ❤️🙏RW

[@mugunthaniyengar8586]

Eckhart 's videos work as a great catalyst to any true spiritual seeker out there. His teachings has been fairly consistent and clear enough .He has a way of unburdening you from your deep rooted beliefs with a touch of humor that you can't help but agree and see things as they really are.

[@h2_kumar]

Thank you, Eckhart. Peace and love. 🙏

[@black_cat9207]

It's all about focussing awareness, remaining as the observer, not getting distracted by thought ...
and no "Selfies" 😅 - don't identify with person-self 🙏

[@itana5542]

I love your vídeos with your wonderful humor ❤️🤣😇

[@mansuralimirani4186]

Thank you sir، excellent، thank you thank you so much

[@sarahbrown1881]

Sincere gratitude, appreciation and enormous thanks.

[@terirobertson3342]

You are a great teacher ❤

[@user-yt4qi6in9o]

Zen mind

[@carmenr.r.8112]

Gracias maestro 🙏🏼💜🙇🏼‍♀️🌈

[@JohnWallsrockmusic]

Thank you Master Eckhart

[@chongqingdiscovery4222]

Even highlights the key to zen within the correction but without to mention. Effortlessly.

[@em945]

He always makes me laugh, but that joke " pilgrimage, is the ancient name for 'hike'.."
Hilarious!

[@bigbambamb7053]

wisdom + wit=eckhart tolle😂❤

[@onreact]

You can also enter Zen-like flow states when completely immersing yourself into doing something without thinking. I do when "dancing with the walls" during my yoga + parkour + ecstatic dance (YoPaDa) sessions.

[@84sahi]

Yep. There is no I thought or duality in those states

[@onreact]

@@84sahiYes, you are too busy whirling around!

[@catalinafirefly4685]

To be nothing is everything

[@user-yt4qi6in9o]

Zen master

[@howardandersen19]

Please help me to see this differently, please help me to choose again, please help me to choose love ❤

[@jessicapatton2688]

You know I have become aware that even in sleep my brain keeps going! It seems the only real peace I’ll find is by separating the thinker from the observer (since I can’t stop thought)
In actual presence there is real joy! It’s the present moment. Mind has a tendency to still project the past onto the now and to be concerned with the future. But actual presence is seeing past the illusion of past and future.

[@markfuller]

_"separating the thinker from the observer (since I can’t stop thought)"_ I don't know how long you've been practicing (mindfulness?), but as you observe the thinker (know the difference between "me in the moment, the observer" and "me thinking in the moment, unobserved, being enmeshed in my thoughts" you will (or can) think less, even stop thinking. It's like an addiction. If your mind has practiced identification with thought for decades because that's more fulfilling than the "boring or disappointing moment as it is," that self-pleasure (mild delusion) doesn't stop overnight. The tendency toward it remains like any guilty pleasure (postponing yardwork, skipping class, drinking more alcohol). It takes time practicing that awareness, familiarizing more with the observer, "individuating" the observer from the thinker (I like that word better than "separate. The process is like chrysalis. The catepillar self-destructs and becomes a butterfly. But, it is still the same being. The catepillar's essence remains as the butterfly. Science has even found that the butterfly has the catepillar's memories even though it self-destructed from the inside out. "Separate" sounds more avoidant or "leaving behind, divorcing." Individuation is more like growth. "I'm not the thinker. I'm the observer of the thinker." Then the thinker isn't a problem. It's only a problem when the observer is lost, all you are (in practice) is the thinker.).
The 1st video in my playlist is a guided mindfulness meditation that worked for me. During the part where I would recognize thoughts as they enter my mind, I would just acknowelge it and "think" (conclude?) that I didn't need to think about that right now. Then, for a half-second there was no thought. That's the pure experience of the observer (with nothing to observe for a brief moment). Practicing that over the months/years leads to being able to practice it even while working, etc (without ideal meditative circumstance). The more it's practiced, the more the subconscious gives up filling your mind with thoughts. If you're constantly (consciously) choosing not to think about that right now, it does taper down a lot. A half-second of no thought can turn into a few seconds. The more you experience it, and maintain observation as a habit (instead of unseen thinking), the less there is to observe (then you enter non-duality? If there's nothing to observe, do you as a conscious entity depend upon observation to exist? You can drop out of observation too. Individuate from that too, so to speak.).

[@marnieoloughlin9366]

Zen = attention to now

[@Sariine436]

omggg thank so much

[@marnieoloughlin9366]

I have never referred to myself as a zen person. But I guess I am very zenith a lot of the time...maybe too much, I get lost sometimes, lose time

[@arthurcard1152]

My mind doesn’t stop focusing on The Deadly Chemtrails Everyday!

[@Stacydsullivan]

I liked the stream at the end.

[@user-yt4qi6in9o]

Zen garden

[@LisaLywulf]

Great video i was laughing when he said "im going to end the relationship with myself it's over. "

[@ghamessmona]

❤

[@maketheworldabetterplace5624]

Be lucky like Eckhart, mooji or sadhguru. Lol I don't resent y"all just being mean cause going through a lot. I have my own path to find or come back to. Salutations and much respect to these invaluable words that the world needs.

[@meditationthien1662]

❤❤❤

[@vraptorx2253]

If you are a fan of "Power of now" , i suggest a Zen book called "Nisshitsu" . It's a POWERFUL book. I think Eckhart is quoting this story from there.

[@Diana-jx1ju]

This works for me.

[@mariarichards5221]

thankyou 🙏 🥰 🌹 💝

[@PostkarteausWien]

Great, like allways, dear Eckhart. Thank You! 😊❤

[@Gaurav.P0]

Beautiful ❤

[@JoeTolle]

I ender my "zen state" by closing my mind 🗿

[@tobiaskevorkazito4072]

🙏🌸

[@seydoukone6906]

I'm favoured only God knows how much I praise Him, $230k every 4weeks! I now have a big mansion and can now afford anything and also support God’s work and the church.

[@seydoukone6906]

Only God knows how much grateful i am. After so much struggles I now own a new house and my family is happy once again everything is finally falling into place!!

[@kees2616]

Jesus is Lord. Maranatha.

[@roxanan832]

Adorable

[@robertburnett6348]

Maybe strange, but i get that way when shooting pool or playing golf. I only think of one thing. But otherwise have the scrambled mind thoughts.

[@raydaug]

Krishnamurti!

[@smolderingtitan]

I think you just stay right at the fork in the road and get off at the 3rd exit for Zen State.

[@adaoz6334]

💜🌿💜🌿💜🌿🙏🙏🙏

[@clownworld-honk410]

He plays around with getting the story a bit confused such is his self assuredness. What it must be to be the smartest person in the room. Not something I can say I experience! 😊

[@johngreen4683]

Me neither, and in truth not something I really want to experience either. Sometimes I absolutely crack myself up with my level stupidity. As I try to explain to other people, it's them I feel sorry for because I've had many many years of experience of being me to come to terns with me while for them my level of stupidity is an awful lot to take in and accept 😊😊😊🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@patriciapineda2187]

Quisiera saber como hago para disfrutar de todas estas enseñanzas en español.

[@AugustoCuervo-hx9pr]

And, the opposite of zen is ignoring, ignorance and all of the avoidant attitudes. Some people believe that enlightment, the beginning of zen starts with psychedelics, but it really starts with nature, the very origin of life.

[@markfuller]

I think it depends on the person. Ultimately it's a matter of rising above thought (observing thought; not subjected to thought, following thought as if it's real, without question.). Pondering nature can give a lucid moment that the way things are is different than what's practiced by the explaining mind. So-called "pointings" (in teachings) can too. Hallucinogens can too (I credit cannabis with my awakening starting in 2013).
I think the best example of the ignorance & avoidance (we can practice as a habit) is when you dream. The most bizarre stuff can happen in a dream, and we just "go with it" like it's real. Not long ago I dreamed I was in an elevator. When it reached the ground floor it rotated 90 degrees and began travelling horizontally. Instead of "wait a second, this can't be real..." I opened the emergency-phone door to find the phone was gone. Then found a cardboard box in the elevator with junk in it, including a phone (which didn't work. This elevator car was now travelling on a street, taking me somewhere I didn't intend to go.). The subconscious meaning of all this is interesting. But, more interesting was how I never told myself "this isn't real. I'm laying in a bed right now..." My mind went with it. Even the most bizarre stuff, "hmm... this must be real."
I think we do that same thing in our waking life. It takes some kind of _transcendent_ glimpse to see through what is a pattern of treating everything emerging into the mind as reality. That could be one-pointedness meditation nature. Or, insight meditation on the present moment (mindfulness, vipassana). Or, a mental breakdown/crisis/loss can give that gimpse. And, hallucenigencis can too. I think it depends on the person, their circumstance.

[@johnedwards5061]

I am free just to be 😌

[@johngreen4683]

Yes, you are, and that's a, very precious thing to both have and be 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@AliK-re6sf]

Eckhart is the human version of Winnie the Pooh

[@HumbleNewMusic]

💙🩵

[@lindsay5305]

Funny guy 😊

[@willieluncheonette5843]

" Perhaps there is no other religion that has made your whole life, twenty-four hours a day, a meditative experience. Zen does not believe in meditating one hour in the morning, or one hour in the night. It does not make meditation a separate, particular act. It wants meditation to become a quality of your being.
So whatever you are doing - walking, sitting, standing, lying down, chopping wood, carrying water from the well, it does not matter. Whatever you are doing, you are doing it so silently, so peacefully, without any stirring of thoughts in your mind. Then your whole life has become meditation. You go to bed silently, you wake up silently, and one day you will realize that you also sleep silently - as thoughts disappear, dreams also disappear. Then the circle is complete.
For Zen, meditation has to be a twenty-four-hour affair. It is not some extra act that you have to do. It is not a Sunday religion - for six days do everything you want to do, but at least on the seventh day, on Sunday, go to the church for one hour and you are a great Christian. It is absolutely illogical, and absurd. Just going to the church for one hour, and then living your mundane life with greed, with anger, with delusion, is not going to transform you. And no Jesus can save you.
Religion has to become something like your heartbeat. Meditation has to become something like your breathing. Whatever you are doing, you are breathing; it is not a separate action. And only then are you saturated, in every fiber of your being, with meditativeness."

[@stanleyngosa9922]

Wow! This is exceptionally great. Thanks alot.

[@user-gp6kp9mg6y]

👍👌👌💯

[@Misslotusification]

6:41

[@user-yt4qi6in9o]

Zen zest

[@engelbertus1406]

the only way to enter Zen is to realize you were never not Zen

[@ghanem.sbaih87]

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[@Feensang]

Ein Zen oder sonstiger Schüler
sah sich im Regen stehn
und wurde erleuchtet
Er verließ das Kloster
und kehrte zurück
in den Ozean des Seins

[@Ryoushi_Akanagi]

I have a question about enlightenment.
If the whole world is a dream/movie, and we are just viewers...
Doesn't that mean it's okay to kill and rape each other? Because if it's just a movie, then there's no real harm being done in living out your darkest fantasies and lowest emotions.
Can a serial killer be enlightened? If enlightened people are such saints... why do they SELL their books and courses?
If enlightenment was to "undo all evil" like Eckhart says, then why not give away all the knowledge for free? Why sell the book?
If enlightenment ended wars and rape, then wouldn't it make sense to accelerate it by giving it all away for free? And what's the problem with war, torture etc if this is all a dream anyway?

[@chiptowers1]

Let me break this down as I see it.
Quote ' the mind, such a wonderfull tool", then who is using that tool because a tool cannot use itself. More to the point, who formed that tool the mind, in fact the mind cannot be a tool because the mind is only the faculty of consciousness and thought and consciousness and thought is not a physical thing.
The brain on the other hand is of a material physical nature that functions as the coordinating centre of sensation.
So what formed the brain to be used as its tool.
Because the brain did not form itself nor the body and the body did not form itself nor the Brain, so what formed the brain and the body.
The material physical source that formed the brain and the body does not require entering a Zen state because that source within does not require it's tool the brain to achieve sudden enlightenment because it does'nt require transcending, because the brains source that formed it, is the enlightenment iteration function unto itself.
This teacher evades explaining how the material physical source derived to form the intelligent species because if that was known by a teacher/master, then one would be all knowing and no need for questions and answers.
By the way, a selfie is not a reflection of yourself in a pool of water because that reflection can't be taken and sent. Der!

[@timfebz1600]

ahh lower the music plz

[@erukaarivu6404]

You are new age JK, eckhart

[@abdouguebbaz1166]

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[@lissettemorales4201]

Sad

[@ireallylovegod]

Be a cat.

[@johngreen4683]

You ever smelt cat food? I'd hate to have to actually eat it 😊🙏🙏🙏

[@ireallylovegod]

@@johngreen4683 It's delicious to cats though.

[@johngreen4683]

@@ireallylovegod yes I agree, our cat used to be love his food 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Thomas-ot5ei]

Mr. Tolle looks very unhealthy and breaths like he just stopped jogging. He should take better care of his body, not only his mind.

[@alexisx91x]

@SoulLifeMeditations44

[@HalfKaztBoy]

2:15 little brain fart moment there lol

[@soullovejourney]

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[@fabianafernandez9160]

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[@lizsypher9341]

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[@g3nius]

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