How to Forgive Yourself of the Past | Eckhart Tolle Teachings

for some reason it has just come into my mind perhaps because somebody desperately needs the answer to this and it's connected to what we've been saying you are now compared to years ago you were now you are now definitely more conscious than you were before and it could be that in the past when you were not conscious you did things that you now recognize as not right or you inflicted suffering on another being or other beings and you can now see it at the time you didn't know what you were doing because you are not conscious enough to act differently now the fact that a person feels guilty means he or she can see something now that he or she could not see then if you were still in the same consciousness then you wouldn't be able to see that that was wrong and say you did the right thing by whatever killing that person i did the right thing but now you see you have awakened and then you can see a lot of your past as dysfunctional unconscious action inflicting suffering on yourself and others virtually every unconscious human inflicts suffering both on themselves without knowing it and others they create their own misery and they make others miserable that's what unconscious humans do and some to a greater degree than others so guilt can come up as you awaken and suddenly see how unconscious you were that can bring up guilt and say because the guilt says i did that the guild says uses the word i but what does that mean what does it mean when you say i what is that i who is i is i the conditioning of your mental emotional conditioning or does i have a deeper meaning is who is i when you think that your mental emotional conditioning is i then you are deluded your mental control conditioning is not i it is the mental emotional conditioning in you it is a false identity there is no real eye there the only true eye is the i am it is you are the the essence of who you are is consciousness that is the i i am that i am that's even the how god describes himself when in this is probably some one of the most profoundest lines in the bible somebody asked god who are you or what's your name i am that i am because your deepest i am is the i am of the universe it's not personal your deepest identity is the identity of god and of the of the universe this is the eye that's the only true eye so when you confuse the unconsciousness of your past which was only conditioning which was a reflection of where humanity is at at its present evolutionary stage you reflected where humanity is in its present evolutionary stage that's all you were a reflection of the evolving but or the unevolved as yet unevolved human consciousness that's all there is no i in there it's not that i did that the unconsciousness human unconsciousness did that if you construct an eye out of human unconsciousness that you represented that is an ego attempt to manufacture another mind made identity for yourself because the ego loves to have a conceptual identity the ego is conceptual identity in the head that's me i so in the ego doesn't mind even if it's a very unhappy conceptual identity it prefers that to having no conceptual identity because that's its end so the ego will cling to the guilt and and associate unconscious action in the past with identity my identity and that's how how the ego can survive for years and you can touch it can torture you for years saying i did that and it's a terrible feeling that you did that you can now see it as so wrong that was so wrong but it's ultimately a delusion find the true eye and then that will free you of that and then you will naturally forgive yourself without needing to take an action and say i must forgive myself that doesn't really work in the same way that it does this can also be applied to other humans you can also do that to other humans what you do to yourself when you see what they did and you can manufacture an identity out of their unconscious action also and then say this is who they are this is who he is who she is it's not it's unconsciousness playing itself out human unconsciousness there is no ultimate identity there but but the mind likes to manufacture a conceptual identity not only for yourself but also for others so the mind loves to get indented these answer was evil ones and sometimes you do it to a whole group of people those millions of this particular group of people no matter what they are they are this is what they are and this is what they did and this that is who they are no it's human unconsciousness that's all so very careful the same process and then you cannot forgive them because you've made an identity for them out of their unconsciousness and say that's they are their unconsciousness and then forgiveness will be very hard okay i have to try to forgive because i'm supposed to do that i have to forgive them for what they did such terrible things but i have to forgive them okay i forgive you ah it's not easy the real forgiveness happens when it just you realize that ultimately there's nothing to forgive and that's true forgiveness there's nothing to forgive and forgiveness happens naturally in this way not not as a conscious thing that you do but a thing that happens by itself it falls away the the false identity that you inflicted on yourself or another human being or a group of human beings that false conceptual identity falls away and that is an essential part of being here as a conscious human being a conscious human being does not have resentments anymore because what could you resent it's only if you manufacture pseudo-identity then there is resentment so all those things just they fall away and they see the flowering of consciousness you

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Length: 8min 51sec (531 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 16 2021