Thoughts on Eckhart Tolle?

[Anonymous No.23489979]

[Anonymous No.23490049]

>>23489979
Seems enlightened and Power of Now sounds useful, but my mind is too broken to stay in the now for more than a few seconds.

[Anonymous No.23490067]

Only morons dunk on Eckhart. He’s not the best writer but the ideas are serviceable. Respect.

[Anonymous No.23490188]

looks like the result of race-mixing among the Middle-Earth races

[Anonymous No.23490380]

you could say he is a real Meister

[Anonymous No.23490467]

>>23490067
>>23490049
Where do I start with him?

[Anonymous No.23490596]

>>23490467
Power of Now

[Anonymous No.23490616]

>>23489979
I read The Power of One one time, and it was by far the least memorable book I've read. I read every damn word between the covers and forgot all of them a week later.

[Anonymous No.23490755]

>>23490616
Ah! Because you were living in the Now, you see.

[Anonymous No.23490763]

>>23489979
Funny timing, I just saw this guys name while reading some mommy blog. Looked him up and saw a pic with Gwenyth Paltrow. That gave me an idea of the kind of person he appeals to

[Anonymous No.23490765]

>>23490763
By that logic Jesus is trash too.

[Anonymous No.23490767]

The guy who gave himself a psychosis and spent 3 months just sitting on park benches?

[Anonymous No.23490768]

>>23490765
Aye

[Anonymous No.23490782]

>>23490767
Better than being nailed to one.

[Anonymous No.23490805]

He had a relatively low level contemplative experience and mistook it for enlightenment, many such cases. That's why you need a good teacher from a legitimate tradition to snap you out of these juvenile ideations, but they're hard to come by these days.

[Anonymous No.23490819]

It's a very simple but profound idea, being present can end all illusions.

[Anonymous No.23490824]

>>23490805
I agree. You get it - this is why this is the traditional way of doing things in virtually all high cultures.

I personally do not trust Eckhart - fake name (he admitted it), hates Whites and Germans, is promoted by Globohomo Chabad-backed puppets like Oprah, is always on the best-seller list and supported by the regime, etc.

[Anonymous No.23490827]

>>23490805
>>23490824
Who is enlightened?

[Anonymous No.23490842]

>>23490827
I'll answer with Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda, but I'm not here to push anyone in particular. I am, however, describing the reasons I have a terrible gut feeling about Eckhart Tolle. You don't get to be pushed on Oprah that hard if you're legit and spiritually good for people.

[Anonymous No.23490848]

>>23490842
>iskcon
>hare krishna
>krishna consciousness

lmao gtfo

[Anonymous No.23490876]

>>23490848
Not an argument. The subject is Tolle's questionable viewpoints and anti-White/anti-European/pro-Globohomo bend and why the system loves him and pushes him so much on the goyim.

[Anonymous No.23490884]

>>23490876
Did you expect him to be a white supremacist? Is how racist someone is your metric for enlightenment?

[Anonymous No.23490906]

>>23490884
No, but I become immediately suspicious when they start spouting anti-White rhetoric and, for the third time, when Globohomo-approved outlets like Oprah push him onto the public. Please address this point, for the third time, Sir.

[Anonymous No.23490916]

>>23490906
What specifically has he said against white people?

[Anonymous No.23490924]

>>23490827
Very few people.

[Anonymous No.23491011]

>>23489979
He looks like Rick Astley if he stepped out of an old folks home.

[Anonymous No.23491014]

>>23490765
>>23490768
Repent

[Anonymous No.23491053]

>>23489979
Looks like he has a learning disability

[Anonymous No.23491431]

>>23491053
Bigot

[Anonymous No.23491458]

>>23489979
Never read anything by him but im very jealous of the epiphany he had that caused him to break out of depression. Wish i could get that

[Anonymous No.23491547]

>>23490842
gtfo

[Anonymous No.23491712]

Dude changed my life when I was 19. I was kind of a douche that craved attention a lot, he sorta fixed that for me. Got me into meditation and life became better for me.

Haven't read him in 10 years now, maybe I should read it again to see if it aged well..

[Anonymous No.23491795]

>>23489979
He has a great sense of humour. Very droll.

[Anonymous No.23491831]

Overrated new age trash just like most other shit like The Secret etc.

[Anonymous No.23491938]

>>23490782
jesus christ

[Anonymous No.23492804]

>>23489979
he means well but fails to realize just because he stopped thinking doesn’t mean he can tell someone else to stop and it’ll work for them. I guarantee more people have had nervous breakdowns from fighting their own thoughts after reading his book then people have become enlightened.

He also interprets everything he reads as describing his state. He’s convinced awakening in advaita and enlightenment in all branches of Buddhism as well as any similar concept elsewhere is just describing the same thing he has. Ironically close minded.

[Anonymous No.23493425]

>>23490596
thank you

[Anonymous No.23494653]

>>23493425
His YouTube channel has some good clips of him too.

[Anonymous No.23494667]

>>23489979
Power of Now is a good book.
>>23492804
Works on my machine.
>fighting their own thoughts
if you're trying to control your thoughts rather than observe them and letting them go you misunderstand a core concept.

[Anonymous No.23494672]

>>23489979
saved my mum from killing herself after my dad died so i owe him everything

[Anonymous No.23494699]

>>23490827

[Anonymous No.23494712]

>>23490827
Look up die Aufklärer

[Anonymous No.23494886]

>>23491458
Find God, embrace suffering

[Anonymous No.23495213]

>>23491938
IIRC Jesus was not nailed to a park bench — wasn't it a telegraph pole or something like that?

[Anonymous No.23495220]

>>23490827
Buddha is quite the candidate. And probably the end of the list also.

[Anonymous No.23495244]

>>23490049
This, sometimes I do try to focus being in the moment and it does work but it's too short-living, it seems like you need constant reinforcements to enforce that kind of state, I do think it would be blissful to be able to live like the present moment is the only thing that exists, I have reached similar states when I tried some drugs

[Anonymous No.23495357]

discord gg/WVTk3xBh

[Anonymous No.23495398]

based on my very limited exposure and ignorance, he's the self-help version of "Just be positive bro"...."just turn off the negative thoughts about past and future, focus on the Now it's super easy...."

>>23490467
The Power of Regretting Past Mistakes

>>23490763
jim carrey also loves him and preaches him. yes that jim carrey the actor. the one with only 1 offspring, divorce, and an ex-gf who suicided. the jim carrey who said he was just a bunch of atoms or whatever during a redcarpet interview. no i'm not saying you should have a ton of offspring but if you're as rich as he is, you can afford to have a stable family.

[Anonymous No.23495409]

>>23495244
it takes practice and it takes reading and learning from good "be present" thinkers who give you the exercises you need to strengthen that habit. maybe eckhart does it for his fans but i've never felt drawn to his teaching.

the biggest Truth is that you only have control over your present moment and how you feel about what you're doing right now. we've all made mistakes in the past and we can minimize or avoid those by being more Present(tm) and basically making better decisions. i think you would need to think about things more economically to fully appreciate and take advantage of Now moments. also planning carefully and executing on plans. you can probably learn more from self-made CEOs and billionaires than self-help fuckers who never really built a business beyond talking in front of a camera or writing the same shit others have written. anyway, even taking a small vacation requires a ton of planning and execution so you're not late for the flight or cruise ship.

[Anonymous No.23495540]

>>23495244
It's actually the natural state, it's the ego that perpetuates time. Read J. Krishnamurti.

[Anonymous No.23495597]

>>23495540
yep, also why many ppl find it therapeutic to go hiking, camping, or just "inna woods" in general. even just going to the local beach is great if you live near one. the concept of numeric time fades and you're more in the present. also why vacations are important. years ago, i let myself get overworked and wanted to an hero.

society inflames the ego (you gotta get rich!!! you gotta pay attention to time, be on time, etc.) and that is what leads to the individual losing the moment. besides, everything is enhanced when you just savor the moment. would you want to eat a great meal while also thinking about yesterday or tomorrow? no. same with getting sex. the present is obviously the most important. but even if you do something simple like go for a job interview they already mindfuck you by asking about your past. society, ego, all bad.

[Anonymous No.23495611]

All of eastern mysticism comes down to “dude just stop thinking” and “just empty out yourself broo”. No dice. I will choose to think and suffer, thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.23496216]

>>23495611
>I
Filtered

[Anonymous No.23496337]

>>23495611
Daoism is an imperfect expression of the fundamental theorem of calculus as a metaphysical principle.
It is also a principle of conscious perception, which is divided into two modes: that of instantaneous change in the present moment (present-mindedness,) and cumulative change over time (the goal-directed mode of temporal narrative experience.)
Neither of these modes are prior to or more real than the other; they are mutually necessary.

[Anonymous No.23496393]

>>23495611
>no, I will not stop hitting myself
Okay, good luck with that.