Living Luminaries.

[muni]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CJ2TUtQ ... re=related

By Eckhart Tolle.

[Nighthawk]

new age mumbo jumbo.... no offense

[catmoon]

Don't write Eckhart off. He is a man of some attainment and knowledge, although I grant you he wanders pretty far from Dharma as often as not.

[muni]

I listened a part of this.
The traps of language and cultures.

Without the guidance of one who isn't dreaming, on what basis are we rejecting/accepting merely others' words?
'Our interpretations' of scripts must be exactly the same!

[Nighthawk]

Don't write Eckhart off. He is a man of some attainment and knowledge, although I grant you he wanders pretty far from Dharma as often as not.

I'm not writing him off as I wouldn't have discovered Buddhism if it wasn't for him which I appreciate. However, his "staying in the present moment" philosophy that he preaches is more appropriate for a zen monk than a layman living in this dog eat dog world.

[Mr. G]

Don't write Eckhart off. He is a man of some attainment and knowledge.

Now we just have to figure out what attainment that is

[muni]

Don't write Eckhart off. He is a man of some attainment and knowledge, although I grant you he wanders pretty far from Dharma as often as not.

I'm not writing him off as I wouldn't have discovered Buddhism if it wasn't for him which I appreciate. However, his "staying in the present moment" philosophy that he preaches is more appropriate for a zen monk than a layman living in this dog eat dog world.

Timeless nature, possible?

Only here and now are no mental constructs by habits formed. Future is projection, past is memory. He says something about goals in future which is in fact delusion. In this I see teachings about time in Tibetan Buddhism.

Eckhart in panel of educating heart mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suojNzKZ ... re=related

[Jikan]

If we're praising the contributions of people who aren't Buddhists, I'll submit the following: doesn't have the pop-spiritual gloss of the Tolle video, but it is about learning in an everyday way.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on ... ility.html

[muni]

If we're praising the contributions of people who aren't Buddhists, I'll submit the following: doesn't have the pop-spiritual gloss of the Tolle video, but it is about learning in an everyday way.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on ... ility.html

Thank you for this. The Dalai Lama is encouraging wider view among each other.
Regarding constructive creativity from vast stillness so espressed, which means not destructive through emotions or discursive thoughts, the "now" has its great importance in Buddhism.
If interested, listen from around 18 minutes on this youtube what Dalai Lama says and Eckhart answer. But in the soccer I am lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suojNzKZ ... re=related

[Jikan]

I think we absolutely need to listen to each other carefully. It's the only way learning is possible.

"Without Contraries is No Progression."

--W. Blake

[gregkavarnos]

Is he still rolling with Oprah or did the snowball gather enough momentum?

[Nosta]

I dont like that guy. He is just some guy with new-age-pseudo-buddhist theories.

You can feel a good master if his teachings, acts and way of speech are accordingly to Dharma.

[muni]

I took these repeating words about NOW in which it is the only way to be "real", aware. He wrote a book about "now" Matthieu Ricard said. Then I tried to listen.

Many are now using Buddhism in their life, studies like the Dalai Lama teaching, meditation investigation... already appears in new study book for young students psychology. Thich Nhat Hanh said something like Christians can be a good Christian and using Buddhist teachings.

But new age, mingling/grasping preferences is not what i mean or should recommend, rather in all these, it is up to us to see clear.

So what?

[White Lotus]

respects to the ''now''. the eternal moment, dynamic emptiness; from the not.

best wishes, Tom.