Does Eckhart Believe in Prayer? | Eckhart Answers
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- Eckhart talks about transforming prayer from the usual petitions to a deep form of listening where we rest in pure attention.
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"Pray like a Lover.. Not like a Beggar..!!"
- Rumi ❤
Rumi's golden soul light still travels here.
That's why i only pray to thank and not to ask.
AMEN
Inner peace is not the absence of conflict, nor the absence of challenge,
But rather the capacity to be with what is, in each moment, without prejudice or judgement.
Beautifully said.💫
You know Eckhart speaks universal truth because you feel it inside and have a natural recognition of it in you.
Jesus said I Am the way the truth and the Life
You feel it inside? What does that mean really? It's extremely vague
I am healed and whole and at peace ✨
✨✨✨
You are nothing near what you could still yet be. Strive for the highest conceivable good you can imagine and start going there. Don't ever think for one second that you're fine the way you are. It's a compliment from me, of the highest order, to tell you that you could be so much more than you are. You are nobody and you know nothing. What I'm really saying is, you have the entire journey to yet enjoy. Learn. Grow. Don't just feel satisfied with what you are now. The first thing you need to do is start asking the right questions. What kind of absolutely idiotic things are you doing still that were you to discontinue them, would add tremendous value to the journey. Endure the discomfort of wanting things to be better. Because it means you recognize they are not yet good. In that, you will find the meaning of your life. Assign the meaning through the burden of terrific responsibility. Carry the most you possibly can, and see what happens ❤
@@billyc2572 I agree with some of your responses...but, not all. If you don't acknowledge how far you have come...you aren't feeling the gratefulness of the paths taken. Striving to be better is a concept some take on laboriously...you need balance. Being present and feeling at peace, is appreciating the now. No one has the right to judge others, how they find their direction or path..it's an individual's choice, of course. Enjoying every step on the journey...while feeling satisfied with your growth...if you don't...you will be making a huge mistake. Life is not a race...but, a journey of experiences that awaken you with each step, while accepting the gifts and blessings awarded for your efforts. Through these experiences...you will find your purpose, if you listen. It's not how much you carry...it's what you carry.♥
Yes me too
When you are still in the habit of thinking about how far you have come or what you have achieved etc your still in the mindset of goals,there is nothing to gain and there is nothing to achieve you just need to realise and to wake up to what you actually are and not what you think you are,forget your past and your childhood because that's just memory,dont worry about tomorrow because that's not even happened yet.....just be absolutely nothing and still and just watch as awareness ❤
Have surgery on Tuesday. Can you that are here hold a moment of stillness. I don't know anyone here and am a complete stranger but would very much appreciate your being in prayer.
Thank you🙏
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Blessings for you and your surgery 🙏🙏🙏
@@marienorris4358 Thanks Marie, just listening to good friday, crying here, surrendering I guess, just tired of being in pain, maybe it's a bit of self pity, find it difficult to remain present with the pain, just took a pain killer, so this moment too shall pass but it's lovly to hear your words at this this moment. Thanks Marie Bless your heart❤
Bless you dear one... Change your user name from nopower101 to something more positive. Words have power in our minds and create our reality.
Maybe just use Power101...
It truly is amazing how the tiniest of changes have the most enormous unknown impact. You are here for a divine purpose. We all are. Never give up dear soul. There is so much more good here than we realise.
We walk with mighty companions 🙏✨🙏
In this moment of stillness my heart sends light and comfort and peace to you. ✨😌✨
“Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.”
True💕💕
@@adriansalmon9030 I think such would require transformation of consciousness on a larger scale, but since we can only change ourselves there's nothing we can do about the exterior madness.
Simply?
Nice way to put it. As if from “I pray/hope/wishfor this” to “I create this”.
@@adriansalmon9030 as crazy as it seems the practice would eventually change wars but not in an instant
I first came across the teachings of Joel Goldsmith in the 1980s. He was a Christian nondual teacher & healer with roots in Christian Science. As Eckhart said he cured many people through the art of spiritual healing, often without ever meeting them or even knowing their condition. He didn’t believe in long periods of meditation, recommending instead more frequent shorter bouts of just a few minutes. He would often begin by saying “speak Father, Thy servant heareth” and then adopt a listening attitude, not necessarily expecting a verbal response but a “click” as he called it or a sense of Presence. Eckhart seems to have a high regard for his teachings as he has referred to them on a number of occasions.
Hadn't thought of Joel Goldsmith in years, but like you I found him in the early '80s and studied his books and teaching for many years. It was wonderful to hear Eckhart refer to him and once again I was taken into that incredible simplicity of our all-encompassing pure Reality that can heal not only our sicknesses but every other ill or problem in our life because on the most fundamental and real level, they don't exist.
Eckhart Tolle is a great guide .... Allah bless him with more.... i Love him...
He doesn't need Allah to bless him he is already blessed and a blessing.
@@wandarask8444 Do better.
Let it be.
Arshid, he is a great guide. ✨
A sincere, humble, passionate petition, filled with longing for God, is just as profound as any affirmation.
yes, I alternate between the Christian ways of my upbringing, and nonduality....I forget who said, "God meets us where we're at"--- I have notebooks full of inspirational stories, most of which involved prayers of petition that engendered miraculous results 🌹🌼🌷🌺🌻🏵🌿🌱🙏🙏🙏
Eckhart pushed me so far in my journey. Thank you Sir ❤
You were ready. he doesn't "push". He merely "persuades". 🙏
@Steven Lister Odd you should say that. His words had "great value" to my Brother when he was dying at Sloane in New York. That started me on my own journey with Eckhart. I couldn't put a dollar value on what he has done for both myself and for my Brother who died a most wonderful and heroic death.
Tom told me that I would listen when I was ready. Are you ready Steven ?
Yesterday I found out that my friend and neighbor was hit by a car. Her injuries are substantial. I have been praying for her. I found this appropriate podcast today.
🙏🧡
I pray that you touch your depth and manifest their better health 🙏
How did prayer help your friend ?
One of the best speeches I ever heard
The best speech I ever heard
Every word you speak, every thought you think & every emotion you feel is a vibrational frequency.
Brilliant yes so true I believe. Funny how music we listen to now is 440 Hz but 432Hz is what it’s meant to be …. Do you know that to be true ?
demons vidrate; when you are fully awakened spiritually, all your vibrations are stilled; no more vibrating high or low
"Oh can't you see? You belong to me! My cool heart aches every breath you take!"
Every move you make, every breath you take, I'll be watching you" ~Sting~
@@clarkkent3730 um no, you are vibrating at a higher frequency
Love from Sweden! Thank you Eckhart for all your wisdom! 🙂
Listening to Eckhart Tolle brings me so much peace.
Being grateful is bliss. Ty ty ty ty ty. God.
I agree, being grateful to the reason for everything for everything without the need to create a story to explain the reason for everything is very healthy. When we stop trying to explain and simply allow ourselves to appreciate how lucky we are, its impossible not to feel a huge sense of gratitude from within 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Interesting. CS Lewis once wrote, “I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me.”
Sometimes i had awareness of my ego's fear from Eckhart's words 😅 like this (😢)
Being in spaciousness is prayer
“The art of spiritual healing - Joel Goldsmith”
🙏✨...What a precious gem this teaching...To be all one with the immense heart of the Consciusness❤️
There is no need for anything else... Infinitely ✨GRATEFUL 💓🙏
gem lol
Yes gem. For sure. Better to say more precious than gem. 🙏
Awake at 5am, just what I needed to hear.❤
Move from petitious prayer to pointer that goes beyond concept.
You can use affirmations like
I AM the light of the world.
Duality is implied in usual prayer, you and God. That duality is an illusion.
God and you are one.
Deepest prayer is a listening attitude rather than saying.
Affirmation can be beautiful if used correctly.
I am holy.
I am healed.
I am at peace.
Then pay attention to the space after affirmation. The power is in the space. In the space you are made whole, regardless of outward appearance.
Hold the image of the sick person, you go deep within to see the wholeness of the person in the formless.
You take form into the formless.
You don't ask God for healing. Listen to God instead, meaning pure attention. That is true prayer. Silence is enough. You are not waiting for answer.
Listening prayer.
Listening is relaxed alertness, receptivity, alert presence. Listening is beyond auditory perception or waiting.
The servant waiting for the master to come home.
Jesus says stay awake.
Use prayers to point to consciousness.
I am listening.
Thanks Eckhart. 9 April 2023.⚽️🌴🌛🎈✡👍🎈
Thank you my Brother. Love and light to all.
"Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is listening to God." Edgar Cayce
Love that.
Exactly! Very well said! ❤
I was told that I was a Prayer Warrior about 15 years ago. I had never heard of that term before. What I did know was that I was writing Prayers for people and they were being granted. I have written hundreds of prayers and only two have not been granted. (I was told they were pending) Anyway, I don’t try to figure it out. I just know that the prayers will be answered 🙏🙏🙏
Sounds like witch-craft.
@Lucy in the Sky I don't have don't have a religion..
The only thing I have faith in is humanity.
I said sounds like witchcraft.
I didn't say it was witchcraft.
There's a difference.
What does this have to do with judgments? Nothing.
Besides, what does it say about prayer.
Prayer
5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,[a]
but deliver us from the evil one.[b]’
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
@Lucy in the Sky anyone who has to talk about it, to feel good about it, is intentional.
Because God doesn't answer prayers like that..
Read the reply before this one.
@Lucy in the Sky when you tolerate too much, you stand for nothing.
Let live effects all life. Not understanding true purpose in something has consequences.
Humans truly don't care, just an act.
Pointing out a mistake in the way they misuse prayer ain't for fun.
Be a warrior where a warrior is needed. This ain't the place.
So, pretty much our conversation is irrelevant.
Since you go by, "let live," but here we are chatting.
Entertaining.
The problem, humans do the opposite in what their told, like from the good book
@Lucy in the Sky you as well.
Everyday you wake-up is a great day
It helps me to start with a prayer of gratitude. It puts me in the exact state of relaxation you describe. I'm new enough that a gratitude prayer puts me in a state of euphoria
The humble nature of these teachings sooths the body and nourishes the soul 🙏
I needed this
You are a remarkable spiritually teacher. Thanx from Sweden! Eva🧡
I am healed and whole and at peace.Thank you
I am healed, whole and at peace. Please let me know that I’m the light of the world. Thank you thank you thank you in advance for this visceral experience of being at one with everyone.
You put these together beautifully thankyou.
Bare, Pure, Attention ✨ Listening to God 🙌🏼
Absolutely beautiful 🙏❤️
🙏That final sentence was quite a eye opener for me. Like my dog that seems to exactly know the moment i come home, maybe we should wait that way too.
Amazing insight. Eckhart does it again. ❤
Sir Eckhart Tolle excellent wisdom only to listen rather than to talk having the negative things with mind. Thanks
Shakir Baloch Islamabad Pakistan
" Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive..." ACIM. Thank you beloved Teacher for always so lovingly and so gently reminding us of the Truth 🙏💖✨
You are great Eckhart ❤
The hardest thing we do as humans is to not keep our minds off of what “we” feel “we” need to “do”
Let Thy will be done!
@Steven Lister If you think about what would happen to your assets after your death, you very well need to make a will ASAP😁. After that you are hopefully ready for the Divine Will to take over.
Find out who is praying, who is asking, who is begging for help. Eventually you will realize you are not the one praying, YOU ARE THAT WHICH IS AWARE of that person praying or wanting to pray for something. Abide as silent Awareness, that is the highest and most effective prayer. There is no asking, no expectations.....let the presence the awareness do what it wants to do. The other option is to ask using your mind (ego), the very thing that has caused your suffering. At some point there must be a realization that "the person" really does not know what is best or that we make the mistake of asking for the wrong things because we are finite limited, or that we "the person" is not the do'er, instead trust presence or awareness to do whatever, complete trust and surrender...
I agree. I think most prayer is either rote (going through motions; formulaic; ocd consistency in practice) and/or rejection of what is (asking for reality to be different). Giving thanks for food about to be consumed (or for anything that could be worse, non-existent) is good. Maybe the stereotypical child's prayer to protect [list of names] is good (but still implies "I'm not ok with that other reality if it happened. I'll take it personally that you rejected my prayer.").
I went through a christian period where I thought I was being quite self-sacrificing to admit I needed saving. But, it was all a cop-out (deferring responsibility onto someone else; ultimately blaming them for not getting the job done). The ego is so strange. You'd think acknowledging the humble "sinners prayer" would be pure proof that you've shed your ego. But, then it turns into a new ego ("I'm saved. God's working on me. Something's happening for a reason.") Then constant moaning to God about how unsatisfactory this all is. He needs to get with it. It's not me. It's him. I invited him into my life, in the name of... Why does he grudge me? Another unsolvable puzzle I'm engaged in, narrating to myself.
It's weird how the "hard admission" (of my nature) wasn't that hard. The hard part was "I'm doing it to myself. I'm the only one who can differentiate that."
@@markfuller You've done much introspection. There is no separate God, no separate entity, no persons, these are all illusions created by the mind. If I were to use the word God I would suggest to all to change their concept of God. The traditional concept is just a concept, an illusory thought like everything else we perceive. What is reality is pure awareness or consciousness itself. All thoughts are illusory that create our dream like drama, even the idea that we need to pray. At some point, all thoughts, all ideas, all concepts must be dropped (including the idea of I, me, my, you, and God). All that remains is the only thing that has been constantly with you always AWARENESS. It is permanent, unmoving, eternal. That is the real you. It does, not ask, does not think or analyze, it just is. That real you is also no other than the same awareness that is "God", Christ, Budhha, any and every saint that ever lived, the same consciousness that is all people, all life....the human mind just makes it appear that you are separate. BUT YOU ARE THAT WHICH you ARE PRAYING to. That Which is aware in you, that which knows YOUR every experience is no other than the "God" you seek.
even though I am a great fan of Tolle, I disagree with him on this matter. Prayer has its place on spiritual path, and there are so many beings at the other side that hear the prayer and try to arrange things for the better. I know he talks about the ultimate awakening there, but if one needs to pray to God, just pray, he will listen, the universe listens.
My journey started with Eckhart! One day I came across one of his videos here on youtube and it changed my life❤
„Entspannte Wachsamkeit“ klingt für mich zunächst widersprüchlich, aber eigentlich ist es genau das, was ich universell brauche. Vielen Dank, Eckhart!
에카르트톨레 선생님 귀한 법문 감사합니다 나마스테 🙏🙏🙏 한국에서 인사여쭙니다
"I'm listening." How beautiful and powerful!
Eckhart - you are absolutely correct again in everything you say. I am a man of absolute Faith, but I do not pray to God because I've realised that in life we don't really know what would be best for us and I trust Him to know this for me - and he does: I now have total fulfilment and contentment in my life and I do not suffer from any fears, anxieties or depression. I have a spiritual guide who 'tells' me what to do each day (normally by some sort of unlikely coincidence or my intuition, and this post is part of today's guidance). We all must deeply understand why Jesus cursed the fig tree and we should all follow the Guidelines of Problacism. If I did pray, however, my prayer would be St Ignatius's prayer: 'Teach us, good Lord, to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labour and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do your will'. Amen
Prayer
5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,[a]
but deliver us from the evil one.[b]’
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
No more, no less.
How beautiful and helpful!❤
Probablemente la fe quiere decir que, cuando Oras no es que tienes que pedir que suceda si no dar las gracias por que crees que es posible que sucederá y solo es confiar en en que sucederá pero A su debido tiempo, en pocas palabras tener paciencia y confianza y dar Gracias , es lo que creo.
This is so powerful.
This is a blessing. Thank you.
I am Free and i am that where death can’t go
The Art of Spiritual Healing ✨
so glad for this right now!
There is an anonymous saying: “It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness.“
If you look around yourself right now (or look within) listen for a surge of gratitude. Or even a little trickle. Breathe in. Let your shoulders drop as you exhale. When it comes to you, note it here.
Once I understood that I am Consciousness, or a pixcel of God Consciousness, united, not divided, I realised that by asking God for something, as we think we can by praying, it meant that I was returning to divisive thinking - that God is up there somewhere & I'm down here, which is divisive & according to ET, not the case at all. I wondered then, if ET thought it was worth praying & if he did, how does he maintain the Unity? If I was on the right track, he'd have some idea of how to pray & maintain the unity. His acknowledgement that prayer is still possible & how we ought really to be praying, is actually ground-breaking, & very powerful in a good way, for us all, if it works. It would also prove that he is not "just another false prophet."
Thumbs up just for the Joel Goldsmith reference. People might like the awakeinthedreamtv channel too.
You are whole and complete in now moment.
I dont understand How u can talk so much Eckhart 😁 its incredible. I could not talk about a subject probably moore than a minute or two, perhaps 3. U are realy gifted. Thank you for all good stuff u give me.
God bless u my friend. It almost Feels like u are god when i read all peoples words.
Totally helpful and beautiful 👏🏻✨🌸🤍🕊️ True way of prayers
Prayer practice as chanting and adoration of the Divine (Bhakti Yoga) Not to get external results but to be closer to God, to open your heart to Presence, to merge in love. For example the practice of Gregorian Chant or other forms of singing are very powerful, they include devotion and at the same time the vibrations of sound through your whole body by singing. It doesn’t need to be loud or artistic like a performance but you need to enjoy. Is also a great balance to the spiritual reflective path of discernment and reading of spiritual books.
Presence & Listening with the state of Consciousness: absolute relaxed alertness
Thank you Eckhart. This is perfect and beautiful, and resonates with me exactly.
Yes this makes so much sense, thank you Eckhart ❤
That a great transmission for me, thank you , I get it, thank you!
This is the concept of ho'oponopono ✨
How great you explain this prayer meditation or contemplation.
Thankyou eckhart ❤
Eckhart--always enlightening and comforting....
Theory of everything:
Energy = Energy
Infinity
God
The idea of prayer could be that words & thoughts focus & crystallise energy into creation... So when directed with intent, from a place of gratitude, appreciation, love & compassion (high energy / vibration), prayer could be considered.a tool for connecting with our Higher Self (or one's idea of God / Allah etc.) and manifesting towards the idea of aligning to our path / higher vibration.
Thanks all of you❤
i love to pray, because then i can truly relax, listen and meditate, knowing i said it all.
„praying is talking to god. mediation is listening to god“.
Prayer 🙏 is talking to God and meditation 🧘♀️ is LISTENING 👂 to God. 😉
...and contemplation is effortless prayer in total oneness and union with God; without words; telekinetic; this is after the meditative mind is put to sleep and can no longer meditate
~Edgar Cayce~
@@jayf8308 ????
@@clarkkent3730 You've one-upped me spiritually. 😐 Here's a cookie 🍪
Beautiful.
My experience:
- interrupting, cutting off, hijacking the Convo, changing the topic, reflecting it back on you
- diverting, comparing with irrelevant stuff
We all are temples of god. That’s what he’s saying. If you want god to visit you. You have to be in the state of with in. ( meditation ) or mindfulness.
Look inside that’s the key. 🙏🏻✌🏻👽
Superb Eckhart
Can we please have a podcast of Rupert Spira and Ekchart Tolle. Please🙏
Beautiful as usual, thank you
This is beautiful! Thank you, friend ♥️
We and everything else got here somehow, but absolutely no one knows how, all we do know is there has to be a a reason and a cause for there being absolutely everything rather than absolutely nothing at all. Do we really need to stick a label on the reason in order to be grateful for it and appreciate we are all equally a direct result of it? Do we really need to create and invent religious stories that in reality are no different to the Harry Potter or the Matrix human stories yet cause such division and harm around the world? Do we really need stories to create a false sense of certainty or can we simply Accept what is, Trust what will be, and be so very Grateful for the reason for everything rather than nothing at all, without the need to invent our man made stories to create an imaginary explanation and imaginary certainty. Surely being at peace with uncertainty is being truly awakened and freedom from our minds egotistical fears. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Merci pour ses trésors 🙏
I know this to be true
Wonderful that you are sharing this. I called it Essence to Essence connection with yourself out of the way the chatterbox mind😂
Great explanation from Eckhart. I don't like that the channel has his name but someone else is administrating it. But yes I know that is the nature of the internet and I know he has no time to do this so I accept that it must be like this.
I missed the piece I once had years ago before I backslid into sin causing my soul intense pain
Thankyou❤❤
Whatever you say in your prayers, you're still just talking to yourself. Unless you physically take action, nothing will change. Affirmations are more useful in that you're acknowledging something that makes for a positive reminder of what you already have.
thank you Eckhart :)
When listening you receive, when talking or praying you are closed.
I am affirming duality now with God to say my petitionary prayers before I upgrade to little mental pointers of concepts but ultimately its all just an illusion except for merging with God now because I have to adopt a listening attitude now. "Yeh I get it". "But will I receive my gift", "no," because the form is formless because nothing is needed. "But you will be healed because you are a good listener". "And that all you will ever be". Does that all make sense to you. Hmmm!
we are all one.
Love Eckhart❤
From form into formlessness
I am listening
Man...This is amazing!
Real teacher
Merci infiniment 💐🙏
I think some of the audience was asleep. There's so much to learn from you too!