How Can We Attain a Still Mind?
We will first explore that “still mind” is a paradox, because the mind can never be still. Like a river, it needs the flow of time to exist. As a consequence, it also can’t understand how to make itself still. You will then learn why we can only point to stillness as...
How can We Live in The Now as Described in The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle?
We will explore why meditation, mindfulness, yoga or other practices that strengthen the witness--the self, subject, or consciousness that is aware of the thinking mind--is the prerequisite for living in the now, and what the differences between these practices are....
Who Are We If We Are Not Ourselves?
Eckhart Tolle says “you are not your mind”. But who are we if we are not our thoughts and sense of self? If all the layers of mind or ego (the “I”) drop away, like in deep dreamless sleep, then we cease to exist. So this seems to be an unanswerable question, at least...
What are The Five State/Stages of Spiritual Realization
Spiritual state-stages tend to unfold in a certain order that are likened to the three broad states of waking (in which we are aware of physical objects), dreaming (in which we are identified with non-physical objects in our mind), and dreamless sleep (in which we...