The Supreme Art Of Living

it is therefore vital that you have space in yourself be aware of space in yourself Stillness or space just two different pointers to the same thing no thing at this moment at this moment is there space in you now if you're not bored while you listen to these words there is space in you so don't try to figure out don't try to figure out whether or not there's space in me through the Mind say okay let's see how do I know whether there's space in me very simple Criterion to use is if you are not bored or angry right now or irritated there is space in you there's the dimension is there that's because it's only from there that you can sit here and not be bored or irritated or [Laughter] angry now if you are bored or irritated or angry you can either walk out and be irritated bought and angry somewhere else or even there you can say oh I can actually I feel bored irritated angry and who knows that how do you know that well I I'm aware that I am bored or irritated or angry so are you the boredom the anger or the irritation or are you the awareness of the boredom the anger the irritation so I'm giving you another chance so before you walk out you can try that now I assume that most of you are not bored irritated or angry from sensing the energy field and so there's the why are you not bought irritated or angry because there's a Stillness of space in you now oh and it you haven't disappeared as a form identity you're still sitting there in the chair yes yes the body there may even be occasional thoughts occasion OD and then again this under under that all of that is there may even be a little bit in your stomach I saw I should have had breakfast am I picking up somebody's thought I should have had breakfast then I wouldn't be hungry now okay and again the Stillness underneath it and between it and so your life then is continuously a movement of being there as a form identity and but knowing yourself essentially as the space then you are free from being trapped in the form and making your life a misery because no matter how hard you try and what you do you can do all the right things but if the valley is missing in your life then the most vital Dimension is missing from your life and no matter how conscientious you are and do all the right things and are tidy [Music] and very your life is arranged logically and you uh uh maybe you have a life plan for the next 15 years for every year you know what you want to do nothing wrong with that and you'll still be creating misery because no matter how hard you try if that the vital Dimension is missing your life is onedimensional and then even the greatest success who knows one or two of you in three four years time or 5 years time maybe will reading about you in People magazine and there are worse magazines in people people is actually people is not so negative there are many others who love talking negatively and then you taste the what success is like and fame no am I saying don't seek success no the beautiful thing is you can you can still play in the world of of [Music] form and you play more beautifully when you realize it is only a relative truth and anything that you achieve as this mountain is only relatively true and valid and it come it'll come to an end and everything you achieve as a mountain will have its other side to it everything you lose there's loss and gain there's always the interplay you may gain many things and they will produce their own challenges and you'll see the other part of success and so you no matter what you do you will never for long find that now your life is actually great it's working it's all working now that on the form level never really happens for very long but that doesn't matter when you're in touch with the the formless however it I'm not saying that if you're in touch with the valley that it does not affect the world of form it does you will notice that first of all the sense of heaviness and seriousness and which is ultimately fear goes out of your life and when you're no longer dealing with situations and people from that place of seriousness and heaviness and ultimately anxiety and fear then the world that you experience or what you experience as the world changes you because a different quality flows out it is that quality that comes from the unmanifested this so there tends to be a a great Improvement in the way in which you experience the world because you experience in a more Gentle Way even the so-called problems are experienced in more because you are not giving them that you are not feeding the so-called problems with your reactivity and your heaviness and your fear because the more fear you bring to the challenges the greater the challenges become or the so-called problems become through your reaction and it's only from the place of being the valley that you can be in a state of non-reaction when challenges arise in the form of people or situations people can be very challenging situations can be challenging but if you if the every challenge brings out the fear and you cannot be without fear as long as you identify with the mountain because you want to survive as this thing that fear only goes when you're in touch with the space and then you don't need to react respond when necessary yes react no and many problems are dissolved when you simply don't react because quite often there's nothing much you can do anything you do in many cases not all sometimes action is required but in many cases anything you do you only add to the [Laughter] problem

Channel: Eckhart Tolle

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Keywords: blip.tv, art, living, supreme, space, awareness

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Length: 10min 24sec (624 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 07 2012