Awakening to Stillness: Eckhart Tolle’s Path to Conscious Living | Guided Meditation

meditation is really all about becoming still without going to sleep well let me correct what I just said it's not so much becoming still but being still becoming would imply that you have to go somewhere or do something being is already here and now and in a sane life a conscious life a harmonious life there needs to be a balance between becoming and being becoming is doing things getting things done and so on in this world dealing with things creating things achieving things and being is about being aware of the present moment which after all is all you ever have whatever you achieve through becoming in the future eventually turns into the present moment so as I speak to you the meditation if we even want to call it that it's perhaps best to forget about the word as I speak be aware of the St the silence or the Stillness between the words being aware means just notice that it's there it's very simple so you notice that in addition to the words there's another dimension that is easily overlooked and that's the dimension of Stillness which we could also call space or spaciousness so when you notice that there are two so to speak two Dimensions here the dimension of Words which you hear and which then become thoughts in your head and the dimension of no thing spaciousness you just so you just notice that's all that's required that there is that Dimension also present so you notice it in between words and even behind the words so to speak now when you notice it what happens inside you what does it mean to notice the Stillness be aware of the Stillness it means you have become still inside it means you're conscious but at that moment at this moment you're not thinking but you're alert present completely here but not thinking so that's the realization of the dimension of depths within you and without that realization your entire life is a Surface phenomenon you run around on the surface of being Never Satisfied for long frustrated almost always feeling there's something important missing in your life and of course there is but you can't find it on the surface of your life the horizontal Dimension looking here and there you have to not become still but realize that that dimension of Stillness is already in you and another word to describe it is to say it's this alert presence that you can sense right now and you may find the Mind wanting to come in from time to time and say something about it or even deny it or say I don't understand it or say what's the point I have other problems to worry about I'll become still when I have solved all the other problems but why people experience many people most people experience their life as a succession of problems and ultimately a frustr ating experience is because they haven't discovered that Dimension the most vital thing or no thing to discover within yourself that Stillness is also power it's a source not only of yourself it is the source of life and nothing creative can ever come into your life if you're not connected with that whenever you feel Joy for a moment perhaps in your daily life or a moment of loving interaction with another human being or an animal or when you suddenly see beauty somewhere and you go oh now without you necessarily being aware of it there has arisen a moment of Stillness in you if only 3 seconds or perhaps a bit more and it's only there that the joy of life arises or the ability to really connect with another human being without it without the Stillness you have only your conceptual mind thinking thinking thinking and you relate to the world through the conceptual mind judging thinking judging interpreting continuously the inner self talk the monologue which may become a dialogue in your head you're no good says one voice the other one is but I'm I'm trying I'm trying whatever the voice in your head is doing and then you try to relate to another human being through that and before [Music] long Concepts come in judgments come [Music] in so there's always a sense of insufficiency of lack of not enough there's always conflict arising when the dimension of Stillness is not not at all operating in your life or very briefly it's not enough yes it's good if you can occasionally experience joy and a sense of aliveness and see beauty and a loving feeling towards another human being not the egoic love but an flowing a good will flowing out towards another human being yes it's wonderful but if it's only brief moments then yes at least that keeps that keeps you going but it could be much deeper it could operate in your life continuously so that you never lose touch with it but the first step isn't realizing it's there always it's already there it's already here I wrote in the little book called Stillness Speaks I said you are never more truly yourself than when you are still and you might think that's a strange statement most people when they talk about myself talk about their personal history and their personal problems and their life situation when they talk about myself that's what they refer to they refer to my relationships my work situation my financial situation my home situation my health me and my life and of course all that yes is that is the case that but is that who you really are