Start Your Day With Presence | Eckhart Tolle On Everyday Presence (Part 1) — Transcript

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1. 0:06When you wake up in the morning,
2. 0:10give yourself 5 minutes of
3. 0:15pure presence. Be present in your entire
4. 0:18energy field, every cell of the body.
5. 0:21and you lie on your back
6. 0:23and you sense just not
7. 0:28you can be a person once you get up out
8. 0:30of bed you start becoming a person but
9. 0:33while you're still there be the presence
10. 0:37so there's nothing to think about
11. 0:38there's only sensing
12. 0:41presence pervading your entire energy
13. 0:44field being it
14. 0:47beautiful day way to start the Hey,
15. 0:51Resist the temptation of
16. 0:55reaching for your phone.
17. 1:01[Music]
18. 1:17I just want to know what the weather is
19. 1:19like.
20. 1:20Well, I mean, look out of the window.
21. 1:32I need to know what he tweeted today.
22. 1:36Who is he?
23. 1:40[Music]
24. 1:46And when you go to bed also important
25. 1:48the last 5 10 minutes whatever before go
26. 1:51to sleep from presence rather than from
27. 1:54thought.
28. 1:56Avoid
29. 1:58uh digital devices
30. 2:01in bed
31. 2:03and be present.
32. 2:07That changes
33. 2:08the nature of your sleep too.
34. 2:16I often say if you drive to work,
35. 2:22it's important to
36. 2:25interrupt
37. 2:27the doing with occasional realizations
38. 2:30of being. So you get into your car, you
39. 2:33close the door and you sit there for
40. 2:3730 to 60 seconds
41. 2:40just being
42. 2:42but not internally waiting for 30 or 60
43. 2:45seconds to be over already but to really
44. 2:48just be there. So you you bring you
45. 2:51interrupt this flow that drags you along
46. 2:54in the doing dimension and bring in
47. 2:57being.
48. 2:59So and then during the day many times
49. 3:01you bring in moments of beingness when
50. 3:04you connect with the deeper eye and you
51. 3:08can use external things to help you.
52. 3:11Looking at a potted plant in your office
53. 3:14or wherever you are or looking at a tree
54. 3:17outside the window or looking at the sky
55. 3:20looking through the window.
56. 3:22You can use any window as a meditation.
57. 3:26Whatever window it may be and whatever
58. 3:27may be on the other side of the window.
59. 3:30I call it the window meditation.
60. 3:33Look at the window and and and give
61. 3:36attention to what's outside the window.
62. 3:39Whatever it is that you can see, but
63. 3:40while you see it, feel yourself the
64. 3:44being of you. And then there's not a
65. 3:47person perceiving it. There is a
66. 3:51presence you have become. You have
67. 3:53transitioned from being a person to
68. 3:56being the presence.
69. 4:00There was there's a little episode that
70. 4:02Oprah did uh some years ago where they
71. 4:07gave people an empty frame in people
72. 4:10they stopped people in the street and
73. 4:12they gave them an empty picture frame.
74. 4:16It was and they
75. 4:19take this picture and direct it anywhere
76. 4:22and whatever wherever you direct it to
77. 4:24just give attention to what it is that
78. 4:26you're looking at in this frame. So you
79. 4:29go around with the picture and you stop
80. 4:31somewhere and there's the floor and you
81. 4:33hold it for a few seconds and you give
82. 4:35it it becomes a painting. So wherever
83. 4:38you're directed it becomes a painting
84. 4:40which means you give your fullest
85. 4:41attention and you discover beauty
86. 4:44everywhere.
87. 4:46and an amazing thing. And so that gave
88. 4:49me the idea of the the window meditation
89. 4:52when you can you look wherever the
90. 4:54window may be. You give it attention. I
91. 4:58even have a succession of photos that I
92. 4:59took on my iPhone
93. 5:02uh on of different windows in different
94. 5:06places in the world, hotel windows
95. 5:08mostly. And so looking different just
96. 5:12maybe one day I'll
97. 5:15uh um
98. 5:17projected on a screen somewhere that the
99. 5:19window the window views the window
100. 5:22meditation.
101. 5:24So
102. 5:26being and of course you can also if you
103. 5:29get a chance completely do away with
104. 5:33sensory perception
105. 5:35and close your eyes and that's
106. 5:38meditation as such. Close your eyes
107. 5:42and sense the beingness of you. Sense
108. 5:46the presence. Be that.
109. 5:49And that's the you're not doing a
110. 5:52meditation.
111. 5:54You're not doing anything.
112. 5:57You are realizing
113. 6:00being.
114. 6:02You're realizing
115. 6:05I am
116. 6:07the I am. And that is when you access it
117. 6:11directly.
118. 6:12So no more sense perceptions. So except
119. 6:16what happens accidentally, but you don't
120. 6:19for necessarily focus on anything.
121. 6:22You just focus on the the power of
122. 6:25presence.
123. 6:27The power of presence in you which is
124. 6:31essentially you
125. 6:36and it usually
126. 6:41incorporates your entire your entire
127. 6:43body. is not really the physical bodies
128. 6:46but something deeper that underlies the
129. 6:48physical body.
130. 6:50And that which underlies the physical
131. 6:52body, you may want to close your eyes
132. 6:54for a moment.
133. 6:56But that which underlies the physical
134. 6:58body
135. 7:00actually
136. 7:03doesn't have any shape or form anymore.
137. 7:05It it does not had doesn't really have
138. 7:07any extension in space anymore.
139. 7:12there's just
140. 7:14presence
141. 7:16and that's an incredible realization.
142. 7:19And then you go deep enough into the
143. 7:21body, it it ceases to be the body
144. 7:27and you you you may lose
145. 7:31a visual image of yourself as body
146. 7:36and all that's left of you
147. 7:41is an extensionless
148. 7:44point of presence.
149. 7:47It's wonderful.
150. 7:49and extensionless.
151. 7:52There's no space or time in it anymore.
152. 7:56It's the transcendent
153. 7:58you, transcendent eye. There's only one
154. 8:01eye.
155. 8:05So, you have no shape anymore. No shape
156. 8:08or form.
157. 8:12And you're not subject to time.
158. 8:23And that's the the power of presence
159. 8:26that is you the power of the one power
160. 8:29the one that underlies
161. 8:32the cosmos.
162. 8:58It's if thoughts come in don't give them
163. 9:01any attention then they drift away
164. 9:04again. It's fine.
165. 9:23If you drift out of it, taking a deep
166. 9:27breath, a kind of belly breath two or
167. 9:29three times your belly, your abdomen
168. 9:33well expands as you breathe in,
169. 9:39contracts as you breathe out and then
170. 9:42puts you back in touch with the inner
171. 9:44body.
172. 9:46And then again the image of body may if
173. 9:51you go deep enough may disappear
174. 9:56and all that's left is that awareness
175. 9:58that point of awareness
176. 10:01extensionless awareness
177. 10:19[Music]
178. 10:25[Music]
179. 10:32That is so wonderful.