Eckhart Tolle on the Next Stage of Evolution

so thinking happens to them and then as you the next evolutionary step for Humanity is the Transcendence of thinking it's a incredible shift in Consciousness that will of course manifest as a when a sufficient number of humans have gone through this incredible shift in ious nness the world that they create of course will look very different from the world that is created by humans who are completely identified with thinking in other words the world that is created by the egoic mind in its personal and Collective aspect needless to say the collective aspect of the egoic

mind is even more insane than the personal aspect of the collective mind so that's the world we create can't help it sometimes good intentions arise and that's fine in humans who are still obsessed with their thought um possessed by their thought egoic dominated but they start they can see what we want to do something good but they haven't overlooked the basic dis function in the human psyche which is involuntary Inc compulsive and conditioned thinking there's been no Transcendence of thought so with and then if you say I want to change the world you can see

what's wrong with the world but you cannot see the cause the Deep causes of why why these things that are wrong with the world you see the surface manifestations of what's wrong with the world and want to change things on the Sur surface surface manifestations for example in early 20th century and late 19th century there was the arising of people became very much aware of the the terrible injustices and uh what of course there was the arriving of Industrial Revolution started in England and there was terrible uh the lower working classes were in a terrible

condition and so you can see yes there something wrong here and so certain theories arose that looked very good on service we need to have an fairer Society there these people are being exploited and those are The Who on who exploit communism the ideas started growing sounds wonderful on the surface we have going to change the world but there's a very wise proverb of course that you're all familiar with about the road to hell is paved with good intentions and then finally when the theory was put into practice Russia [Music] China it didn't turn out

well uh the intentions were good initially I suppose to large extent perhaps not 100% good but they were good uh and yet they created hell for millions they created also again huge inequality between the people on top and all the others and millions of people died because in order to bring about a better world according to your theory you had to kill a few million first so if you overlook that there's a fundamental dysfunction in the human psyche whatever whatever plan you have to implement changes on I'm not not saying don't do anything until you're

totally enlightened no you're already relatively conscious so you can participate take conscious action that's fine always knowing that the fundamental change is in human consciousness and you need to embody that change while you take action the Transcendence of thinking means the Transcendence of the egoic mind it means that you able to spend part of your time relatively free of compulsive thinking certainly free of selfs serving thinking and destructive thinking that continuously creates unhappiness for yourself and the people around you how many people live the the compulsive narrative in your mind that for many people is

very negative constantly critical constantly complaining never at ease with what is there's always something wrong fault finding because the ego grows through the constant opposition constant antagonism never at ease always looking for the next thing to complain about and it strengthens the egoic self the the more you complain oh off offended is a new version these days it's very popular on the internet I'm very very offended art Raiders how dare you there are thousands or hundreds of thousands where you go on every day they look on their their screen waiting for the next scene to

be offended by and the ego loves it and for many of them it's the only way they can inflate their ego by S sitting on the screen and sending out tweets the Transcendent of thinking is not any kind of regressive movement we're not regressing to the state of somebody who is whose mind is relatively undeveloped and who does not have a problem with egoic thinking because there's very little going on in their minds what used to be called before it became Politically Incorrect idiot or fool uh the fool was they were always you could see

happy fools they're they don't there's not enough thinking to make them unhappy so this they are below egoic thinking in the in medieval times every village had at least one village idiot or fool and there noral was accepted essential part of the community and even the Royal courts had a fool very important figure although that figure probably was just pretending to be a fool and that was one of the most sometimes very influential position in the Royal Court but also one of the most dangerous stobs you could have because you could lose your head at

any moment but only the fool was able to tell the king or queen what was wrong no by make making it into a funny story but the fool is more deeply connected as we know know from mythology the fool is more deeply connected with the source still hasn't gone as far out as a normally developed human he's more simple he the Fool For example relatively speaking is a simpleton it's like The Hobbit in God of the Rings the The Hobbit The Hobbit is a simple guy uh doesn't think in complex terms loves the simple things

of Life loves eating and enjoyment but why the fool has to go on this important mission that nobody else can carry out that's a a mythological motive that's often the case because the fool is has a connectedness still with source that the more developed humans don't have similar motive in Forest Gump the movie The Fool does great things this guy Forest Gump but he's uh because he's and life always supports him if you watch that movie again he always he he saves people in the war he does heroic things but he doesn't claim credit because

he doesn't have much of an ego yet and always life gives him the next thing and the next thing supports him but we don't want to go there when I say sensation of thinking I'm not talking about regressing to the to the stage it is the pre-thinking stage of humanity I'm thinking about Rising above pointing to the possibility of rising above thinking so you stop thinking which is normally associated with diminishment of Consciousness and Transcendence of thinking is an intensification of Consciousness turning up the light this is why the term attention and alertness those terms

are extremely important they're also used in Zen very frequently uh the Zen teachings could be described if you wanted to summarize Zen uh it would just you can just say simple things like pay attention there was one zen teacher who would whenever they asked him a question to explain Zen he was became quite famous he we would only raise his finger please explain Zen to us what is Zen I haven't quite understood yet he was calling people to attention not