Connecting Yourself to the Universe | Eckhart Tolle Explains

so it's not really true to say I am aware of the awareness in me no the awareness in you is aware of itself when the the person and the deeper eye the person that I call the surface eye and the Deep eye don't exist as separate so one day you're and then one moment you but the two can come together and so then you're able to function in this world as a person but always with an additional Dimension that operates now through that person in other words the way in which you deal with difficulties and

situations and people changes it's it's no longer an egoic way of dealing with things but it dealing with things consciously this Con this greater intelligence can Now operate and use your flow into your mind and then their mind comes up with the right solution suddenly or spontaneously you take the right action whereas before you would have been reactive out of the egoic conditioning which usually is wrong it just makes things worse so that see then the truth you can have I sometimes put it like this you can have one foot in this Dimension where you

are person and you have the other foot in the Transcendent Dimension ah so you and then you don't Lose Yourself anymore in your ultimately in your mind and that means you don't lose yourself in the world anymore because ultimately the so-called world and your mind are one and the same thing so you don't Lose Yourself anymore you can you operate within this limited Realm but you're no longer looking for yourself or for some kind of ultimate completion or fulfillment in this limited round of the horizontal Dimension which means you can now pursue a goal still

because in the surface ey still operates here you pursue a goal but you do not make the mistake of uh overemphasizing what this goal can do for you once you reach it yes you might be very dedicated to what you're doing but there is not an excessive projection into where you think you need to get to I need to get there I need to have achieve the success that it make me that will make me Me Feel Complete and fulfilled and then I will have made it made what the ego that goes You Pur pursue

a goal but your attention is in the doing rather than where you want to get to you know where you want to get to but your main attention is in the quality of the doing now whatever action you take now you're able to be present with it rather than always devaluing everything you do now now in the service of this greater goal in the future that will never ultimately satisfy you anyway and that is a very dysfunctional way to live whenever stress arises you have there's something has happened the you don't want to be where

you are and ultimately you don't want to be doing what you're doing now stress means there is a projection to some future point where you want to be rather than here you want to be there so the quality of the doing diminishes there's no the Consciousness doesn't flow into the doing the doing is a means to an end it goes like I want to be there and here I'm doing instead of yes peripherally you know where you want to get to but that's not where your your main focus that's your peripheral but your main focus

is the doing itself so the the doing is no longer in the service of the future it is self-fulfilling and and then it becomes actually much more empowered uh the you in in other words you enjoy the doing no matter what it is there is an enjoyment of the energy that flows into the doing and that's enlightened or or conscious action as I call it conscious action it's it's not reduced just to a means to an end yes it is also a means to an end but it is not only a means to an end

it is fundamentally an end in itself it's the doing itself that's already this teaching has already two the the ancient script of the bhavat Gita which if you haven't read it you should uh nobody knows how old it is maybe 2,000 years or more again one of the main lessons in the bat Gita is it is possible to perform an action without losing yourself in some desired goal which in bav is called the fruit of the action do do don't give it says don't give excessive attention to the fruit of the action but just be

conscious of the action itself and this is coulded as a spiritual practice and this is the it's called karma yoga the yoga in the sense of yoga here means spiritual practice not necessarily uh body movement but that's fine too uh Karma Yoga Karma means action Karma action and reaction karma is so karma yoga is the practice the spirit the action as spiritual practice and that's a very very powerful teaching that's been around a long long time ER any activity that you perform as a person by performing it in this way becomes actually empowered and then

you have a foot in both worlds the you have you have the the unconditioned Consciousness acting through you giving you attention your fullest attention to the doing in the Moment In This Moment whatever you do in this moment and if it's not just doing it might be something else uh one isn't you you're not always doing you're always walking around this world uh perceiving things and and talking and perceiving and so on uh you may be familiar I'm sure you are with the term that's mentioned a lot these days as in New Age teachings and

others gratefulness or gratitude and again that is related to this what what what does it mean gratitude from there um well people say well you say thank you for okay um it sounds a little weird you um thank you thank uh I would somebody asked me I I think it was a Buddhist because Buddhists don't believe in God as such it's not that they are atheists but they don't believe it's a complicated thing but don't don't need to talk about this but uh B said well who am I thinking if I I don't think of

a god that has just given me something so why do I say thank you what I don't understand who am I thanking um gratitude is really appreciation it's an it's an alternative term you could use and what is appreciation it is um again it's related to be present with a sense perceptions for example uh you can appreciate appre apption for anything by giving it attention and to give attention your mind needs to be free of the conditioned naming and labeling to awareness again presence you give attention to this flower for example you give it attention

and so this is a visual in this case and you appreciate it's Beauty but without mentally saying you may not yes the thought may come into your mind it's beautiful but you don't stay stuck in that thought then the thought disappears and you continue to be aware of that flower and you appreciate it's it's just if one had to use words incredible presence and and aliveness and then is is the kind of thank you arises that is not necessarily verbal it's a deep appreciation but you can even do it with any even soal inanimate objects

there's a glass of water here and I can see the reflections of the light in the water it's really beautiful and for a moment the Mind stops and simply perceive the incredible beauty of this without even calling it Beauty wow and then you feel this everything is a is a gift they say aliveness all around you some people make a mistake with the Gratitude practice which is a way of being in the present moment uh the mistake is they associate gratitude with a story in their mind and the story would go like this I really

should be grateful what I have because look at all these people who have less than me okay well this may be true but it's not this that this is not the path to True gratitude because if you can only be be appreciative and have gratitude by comparing yourself to others who are worse off than you that is not true gratitude you're dependent on others to be worse of than you to feel bit more grateful or should be more grateful it's just don't look for gratitude on the level of narratives in your mind but the immediate

thing sense perception hearing bird song Clouds Sky whatever even how light gets reflected of the surface just this moment of pure appreciation of the aliveness of things uh and this always and another factor that comes in and is important when you whenever you are aware of these things whether you are performing an action or you're simply contemplating something and feel this gratitude or acknowledgement of the being of whatever it is uh there's a very subtle thing here again let's make it experiential right here now we can we take in the the totality of this room

and the lights and a man on the chair talking and you perhaps you're aware that you're breathing while you're contemplating all this and the now we come to the perhaps the most important uh point of realization the as you as you aware of all this and appreciate it are you also aware of yourself at the same time but not the person as you are aware of all this and you your inside your still are you aware of that still let's say what words to be used are you aware of that still presence that is aware

of all this are you aware of yourself as that awareness and that's a very subtle thing uh but it's very important so you have here the outer world of the senses which ultimately is only the surface reality but beautiful too but you also aware of yourself as Consciousness as the Stillness which is the conscious the unconditioned Consciousness now when I put it it like that uh in words a little error arises which is created by language because I asking are you aware of yourself that seems to imply that there's a duality there and the but

it arises because we're using language when you say I am aware of myself that looks like Duality there's I and there's that which I am aware of but that's not how it is it only appears like that when you begin to talk about it but when you don't talk about it there is just the awareness itself because you are not separate from the awareness so it's not really true to say I am aware of the awareness in me no the awareness in you is aware of itself that's perhaps a better way of putting it and

that is so that's the The Secret of not losing yourself in the world and in your mind while you're operating in this world can you be aware of yourself as now I'm using another term now but it's all the same are you aware of yourself as the space which is the presence the awareness are you aware of yourself as the space for whatever it is that arises in your awareness the forms that arise your physical body even your your thoughts and pl perceptions all these things arise in the awareness that you are the awareness is

the space for it uh so to be aware of that space is ultimately to be aware of yourself at the deepest level where you f that far transcends who or what you are as a person so you're aware of and that space of awareness is actually the true meaning of the present moment the Pres that is a power of the present moment the power itself of Consciousness itself of life itself and that power is the Power of Now the then you're aware of yourself as that and and there's the world and there this is the

in some spiritual additions called the I am the beingness of you the essence of you uh that is the I am that uh in the Old Testament God replies when I can't remember who Abraham or Moses are meets God so to speak it's a story I mean you can't meet God like that but there's a story there there's a deep truth in it God what's your name he asked God and God said my name is I am the I am that I am and he's very surprised oh I am is the name of God wow

that's very strange I'm sure that's what he said it's not the Bible but that's that is so weird and and perhaps he realized something when the essence I am is is not just your I it is the I am of the universe it is the being itself the beingness of it of the universe itself you can realize that within as your essence and that connects you to the one God if you uh have to be very careful with the words like that because they have been misused a lot and misunderstood but the way I the

way I see it or perceive it or sense it is that the the Consciousness that is the hidden essence behind all the phenomenal universe that we see with our perceive with our senses behind it there is a vast intelligence operating that is not part of this Dimension but somehow flows into this Dimension and gradually creates more and more complex forms it gradually expresses itself more fully in this Dimension and this it flows into this Dimension from the trans the Transcendent one that we call God but we cannot of course understand at all God does not

exist in space or time but is transcendant to all that but just as the sun emanates light and creates life here but the energy that it emanates continuously and that could be used as an analogy in the same way this is my perception and perhaps it makes perhaps you can sense the truth of it too maybe not maybe yes the uh God's the emanation of God into this Dimension is like the emanation of light that comes from the Sun and this emanation is consciousness and this Consciousness is uh behind every every form that arises here

it's an intelligence that operates you could also call it this the soul of the world uh the Ancients had a term for it the in Latin it's called anima Mundi the soul of the world that that everything ultimately is a manifestation of that deeper transcendent aliveness and so the what you sense in yourself as yourself as the Consciousness is the light of God in you and as you it is the light of God in you that's how I sense it somehow uh and so the just as the light of the sun is not separate from

the sun it's somehow it's an extension of the sun one could say in the same way the Consciousness that flows that is the essence of what you are is an extension of God is an emanation of the one source of all life and that is you that is the essence but that is the Transcendent self which the Buddhist call no self uh that is the essence so in essence you are the light of God in this world one could say uh the light of Consciousness you are the light of you are the light of the

world as Consciousness and that's exactly what Jesus said to his disciples you are the light of the world