Can I Drink Alcohol If I Want to Awaken? | Eckhart Tolle on St. Patrick's Day Celebration

Can I Drink Alcohol If I Want to Awaken? | Eckhart Tolle on St. Patrick's Day Celebration

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Eckhart shares how, when presence becomes the normal state in your life, you don’t have to worry about alcohol anymore.

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  1. Why do these videos look different?

    I agree, once rooted in inner knowing, the details of life don't get in the way. If they do, it's easy to re-center.

    The bad or good quality of experience always contributes positively when inwardly aware.

    Enjoy the ride of life, firmly established in inward consciousness.

  2. "I know that if I drank a whole bottle of wine…"

    Seems like he hasn't actually tried doing that, so is talking from theory and therefore doesn't know at all what would happen.

    I have at times thought I was above being affected by alcohol in ways I used to be and it turned out i was wrong.

    Maybe he's right but how would he know if he hasn't actually done it?

  3. Breaking News : Popular spiritual teacher assaults audience member with empty wine bottle. Claims it was a common Zen technique, all who were "present" agreed.
    When asked why his car was later found in a bush with a stolen traffic cone in the passenger seat, he stated "it was a manifestation of the universe completely out of my control".
    The universe was asked to comment but said "Nothing".
    The Police have stated that the alleged culprit was found to be just an "Illusion".
    The traffic cone was returned unharmed but now just sits in an upright position in the corner, staring into the great beyond and has never said another word since the incident.
    A crowd regularly gather to see the cone and the question of "Is the cone outside of me or inside of me" has still to be answered.

  4. "If I drank a whole bottle of wine I would still be present," maybe that's true, unless you brown out or black out.
    Be aware of this also – the only safe amount of alcohol to consume is ZERO. That is also what is recommended by the World Health Organisation. Alcohol is poison that wreaks havoc on every system in the body, including the immune system, and causes several types of cancer.

  5. I use to drink everyday and once I became aware the effects were just not there anymore. I couldn't get fully under the influence. I would just have a headache in the morning. So I stopped drinking altogether. It wasn't the same anymore. I would be just as cognizant as if I had no drink at all.

  6. I'd imagine that once you've 'established presence' as Eckhart puts it, you wouldn't be interested in an altered state of mind anyway. When you're fully present, you wouldn't need to distract yourself with substances.

  7. Wine laced with psychedelics was used to induce ecstatic spiritual states going back thousands of years and could have been the precursor to the wine used in Catholic mass still to this day.

  8. I have a drink to enjoy it not to get drunk and usually have a meal with it however it’s not wine that’s lethal it’s not spirits as I’m spiritual I don’t mind a cider but it has to have apples in it please ? ❤ ? no lager I’m in bed for half eight or nine up at five so I’m pretty much grounded xx just my lifestyle ❤

  9. To be Spirtual present and aware you must be abstenent from drink or if you drink your disconnected, as your mind and body is poisoned as alcohol Is a poison to the human body once its in you, you can't be present or connected to awareness.

  10. Have to call foul here. I am surprised this was posted by the Eckhart Tolle brand. The chuckle after saying some people drink a bottle of wine a day is so revealing. The chuckle equals judgment which equals "absorption in thought." So this person, who claims to be above such constraints, evidently is not. That's okay so long as he can admit he is human just like the rest of the unwashed masses. But to laugh at what is the reality of addiction for millions of people? Comes across as tone deaf at best; at worst, as someone who takes pleasure in the suffering of others. Either way, kind of scary stuff.