What Is Meditation?

you you to meditate successfully the idea that you're doing a meditation can be quite an obstacle so maybe that's the first thing we can get rid of tonight the preconceptions and the expectations that come with that term so why did we call it guided meditation well we had to use some word to get you here meditation is usually something that you do among many other things during implies all kinds of things implies time even future to some extent and yet control meditation if you even want to call it that and it's better not to call it anything it's not to do with doing it's not a doing it's the realization that you are of being which underlies all doing is prior to all doing thoughts emotions is prior to that the simple realization not the realization who you are because there can be so many perspectives on that not the realization how you fit into the totality of the cosmos how that seemingly a little life fleeting existence fits into the totality somewhere not realizing how I fit into the whole it's impossible to comprehend but an alignment with the totality without the need to mentally understand anything a realization a simple realization that you are which is expressed in the sublime words I am and if you have missed elementary grammar at school you might not realize that I am is the first person singular of the verb to be now you think it's two completely different where's the realization that you are not a son concept but is a deeper sensing of the life that you are the aliveness alive and something helpful to realize that is to pretend for one moment that there is no past in no future I'm saying pretend so that everybody is still with me if I said if I said there is no past and future some of you might suddenly start thinking just a second aren't you going to sign books in an hour and the moment you go into thinking you're off into the realm of mind the realm of things object objects in consciousness every thought is an object in consciousness and every thought has a pulling power that's right arise this and it pulls your attention in and you start thinking okay but today's if I came here half an hour ago there must be a past not realizing of course when you came here it was the present moment and when the books are going to be signed it'll be the present moment because it there is nothing else okay button to talk no need to believe that let's pretend let's pretend for a moment that there is no past in future okay well let's just say past and future become peripheral too you know who you are there's only this Oh that is the entry point into the realization I am

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Keywords: Eckhart, Tolle, meditation, spiritual, concentration, practice, being, awareness

Id: 2bAXwBbCtHg

Length: 8min 5sec (485 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 24 2008

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I can't access the video here, someone wanna give me a tl;dr?