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It can be hard to accept your unhappiness (or, as the Buddha calls it, suffering) and not resist the present moment. Fortunately, when you accept this moment as it is, unhappiness does not last long in you.
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Everyone has a pain-body, but some versions of it can be more difficult to investigate than others. Do you recognize the experiential qualities that trigger your particular pain-body? When it asserts itself, have you been able to observe the pain-body even as it takes hold of your thoughts? Have you ever been able to interrupt and dissolve the pain-body before it grips you? What techniques did you use to do so?
wow.
Be aware
6:35 That was the most beautiful E chord I ever heard
Living in the now is great advice, I’m lucky enough to have lived the best part of my life so not worried about end of life. No longer upset about
past stuff that caused much angst, nothing to look forward to so easy to enjoy the now
His recommending people to dress warm enough for the cold weather is so wholesome
Listening to Eckhart is like pressing an internal reset button. I have an evil temper when it manifests, to stay fully aware,has, is, helping so much. After returning home, the daily follies, stresses, and egoic episodes of daily life are mostly trivial on reflection. I make a cup of tea and listen intently to my children's accounts of their day and what new wonder has caught their attention, I'm fully present and realise I'm blessed in this life. I have along way to go yet but Eckharts teachings always bring me back to sanity when I forget the present moment is all we have.?
Life has gotten slightly less despairing when I try to remind myself I’ll always be sad since my mother passed away, I don’t need to beat myself up for not feeling happy or like myself. She was my only support so I will be sad with periods of happiness
The giggle…the aw-ha moment…simple
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You are my real guru like Sadhguru, I wish you all the best, greetings from Poalnd
He is so right that when you accept something that is difficult it is no longer difficult. There are a couple people in my life who make me totally miserable and have made me totally miserable as long as I have known them almost. When I made the decision to try to accept those people even though it was exceptionally difficult, when I managed to do it, I was not that upset anymore.
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I have a sad, despairing, forlorn pain body triggered by social interactions in groups and with individuals. I was a sad child because I felt tamped down by my family but it really got strong due to a teenage trauma. I have recently identified it as a pain body. So I have been able to dissolve it after it has taken hold of me by saying that's the pain body and staring at it as you recommend in one of your talks. I have caught it pretty early a few times too. I've had success with relax and release in the past week. Today I asked myself who is feeling this? Who is seeing this? After maybe 10 repetitions I knew I was in my conscious self because I could feel the despair more distantly, but still strong. Stayed, stayed, stayed. Somehow I started smiling and became ecstatic.
Im aware of accepting the experience but it doesnt work well.
Thank you this is a wonderful helpful session. 😉
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais nin.
Thankyou for this video, your teachings have always been great and I hope that lots of people benefit from listening to you? God bless you?
Listening to Mr Tolle
I'm fatal,unhappy neurotic…
If only man can change it…
Only bums ride the bus. A high concentration of negativity. Better to walk instead of taking the city bus. ?
As Eckhart explains, sadness came through distressing thoughts/narratives….I practiced acceptance, and I felt serenity. ?? It works.
The amount of coughing and spluttering going on in the audience has my ego very upset.
I love the Eckhart teachings however I have to mention a concern. I was watching a doco on a Russian prison. You can imagine how hard that would be. A life term even with parole means nobody ever gets out. Life is extremely harsh. One prisoner who refused to accept what is has campaigned for prisoners to have a computer and a fridge. Amazingly even in this harsh regime he has achieved this result. Don't just accept what is always. there are times its absolutely your calling to make life better for others including yourself. Perhaps what I am saying here is. In this situation you could save yourself and not suffer the longing for those things by accepting. however is it just about you or greater than this. This man has done something amazing by standing up and saying this is not acceptable and we need this. What a great man he is. Now it must be said if you are blinded by a firework and spend your days angry by what is it would be foolish. However you need to see this at a deeper level. If you can make difference then you must do so regardless of your own outcome.
Realisation that, no action comes out of movements of thoughts freed me immensely. For example; thoughts that time travels to past(regret) and future(worry ) and so forth, when we are in present magnifies it’s impact and we hopelessly we get lost or stuck with it because no action is possible at present when our thoughts are based in future or past. All the regrets, worries, psychological suffering are results of thoughts that time-travels.
I was in a moment of deep sadness and feeling extremely overwhelmed when I turned this on and I followed your wisdom just as you were saying it, only to about 3 minutes in, and exactly what you said would happen had already happened… just that fast!
"Unhappiness and acceptance cannot coexist". I literally felt that at the most visceral level when I accepted my unhappiness. Even the way you describe it creeping back in I can feel it but as soon as I acknowledge and accept it, I can almost feel it running away !
Bravo for such a perfect description . And literally what I needed in this moment!
Been listening and reading your material for years and,well, thank you
VERY GRATEFUL.
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