Great post – I’d love to attend a discussion featuring Tolle and Robbins +_+

I don’t see your point in 3. in context with Eckhart Tolle or even Tony Robbins. It is legit to get value (money) in exchange for value (that is what money is made for) and I don’t have any problem with it. I don’t see it as the main driving force in any of the works of both. As a general message to question and think yourself and not to blindly belief in any teacher, it makes sense though.

Regarding 4/5: I see a challenge for everybody who is open enough to really get in contact with spiritual awakening. As we discussed several times, this is all about direct experience in the moment and not primarely matter of belief of thought. A danger is to lose yourself in the Now and neglect your own demands, desires and responsibilities. Ariel also wrote a nice article about this here http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/enlightenment/hiding-in-the-absolute/ To me the challenge is to find the BALANCE between both.

That balance is what the article is all about. In the last 6 month I learned from experience what works and what does not. And my environment reflected back to me what does not work, which was hiding in the absolute. So judging by results (personal unhappiness) I changed to a more stable and balanced approach between Personal Power and Power of Now.

1} Any “religion” or philosophy that doesn’t come from the self, isn’t meaningful, especially if it asks blind obedience, or a “look” into its illogical philosophical doctrines.

2} Always question conformity and unfounded cultural belifes, no proof most often equals no truth.

3} A wolf smiles broadly, yet looks out for fresh flesh to tear. Authors of altruisms are oftentimes driven by greed and a need to implement a stuffing of their pockets.

3}Embrace the here, reject the “what if” be glad for friends, family and good people. Show them respect and treasure them.

4} Any invitation to join in acts of carelessness and self-neglect, such as ignoring daily chores, ignoring loved ones all for a “higher, unseen purpose” are dangerous ! The people promulgating these lies do not care about your wellbeing. This includes everybody, Eckhart Toll{to a way lesser extent}, Jesus, Mohammed, The Buddha {to a lesser extent}all the prophets of the past and present.

5} If we live life on our own terms, doing that which we desire, unbound by false beliefs. That, that is true enlightenment, that is true Charity, that is the true meaning of “Samsara”. Personal rebirth through logic and caring for the people of the earth, especially your own family and friends. This extends to the use of any violence, which should ONLY be used as a means of self-defense, but should ALWAYS be used to defend oneself, for NOBODY deserves to be a victim of anybody else.

Lastly, and most importantly, look to all philosophies, yet DO NOT embrace any of them without logical study. Sadly, most of my friends tend towards Eastern thought, and find themselves inclined to “convert” me to one manner of thought or another. No, I will NOT convert to your way of thinking. Not upon threat or false-intentioned and dilusioned coersion, for that is the way to your own demise, and a paradoxically ironic soul-prison!

Nature doesn’t try to create balance, it just does… perfectly. The mind cant even come close to that.

Where there is no thought there is no debate…no opposites.

I feel there is a danger in mentally striving for balance as it brings thought back into the equation. I imagine that with consciousness, balance will happen naturally and perfectly.

I will say that I have been using some of Anthony Robbin’s NLP techniques to help me to be more wired for consciousness… EVERYTHING else I am leaving to consciousness.

I find that Roshi’s search for balance distracts most people from what they are truly lacking, consciousness. I will go as far to say that if you are conscious, consciousness will take care of everything else; everything will just start to flow..inside and out!

If I get to the point where I find myself abandoning society and just sitting on a park bench because I am lost in the right side, I going straight to Roshi. Until then, it’s just another thought requiring distraction from what I and most people are lacking… keeping attention away from thought!

Eckhart Tolle = No Mind (i.e. free from mind)

Anthony Robbins & all r talkin about sumthing temporary & r still struck in the mind. they r improving the mind, but r not abel to go beyond it.

& bout Eckhart msg, u compare it wit birth, life & death. Hes talkin bout eternal peace. which lies beyond mind.

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Thanks for bringing this up. This topic is something that I’ve been grappling with lately so allow me to share my current understandings… which expand and evolve literally daily. =)

The key key key thing is realization of the Self, who you truly are. Not just an intellectual term like “I am spirit” or “I am the infinite awesomeness that is God” but I mean an actual AWAKENING to the direct realization of this. In my experience, this arises when we starts seeing through the utter lack of reality that is created in the mind, including all beliefs. So at first, it seems that even our “mental power” to create through intention and law of attraction is subverted.

Awakening leads to a sense of wholeness, the experience of who we actually are. We are not just a mind and body bouncing around in this world. The higher part of ourselves is the guidance system, the intuition, the higher self. It is literally US, a part of us that extends to see a better vantage point, almost like a periscope to see things from a better and clearer perspective. We feel the results of this viewpoint through our intuition and our sense of excitement. The more excitement we feel towards a particular activity, the more in alignment that activity is with our true nature.

So, we wind up guiding ourselves from our higher self. (There is only One of us, really.) It is by surrendering to life and letting go of attachments and mental beliefs of limitation that we become free to be, do, or have anything, to experience anything imaginable.

So we see through the illusion of form and then we guide ourselves through it, using excitement, using our imaginations to visualize and experience (through all our senses) ahead of “time” what we want, thereby producing the physical manifestation of that reality. The imagination is just as much a dream world as physical reality, but one tends to preceed the other.

We see the ultimate reality of Oneness, yet nevertheless allow ourselves to use the tool called the mind to visualize and thus ignite the process of creation in physical manifestation, without ever buying into any relative reality as if it was literally THE Absolute Truth.

“Be in this world, but not of it” as the saying goes.

Ariel – We Are All One’s last blog post: Realizations from Awakening, Part 1

So I wonder … What Would MonkMojo Do Differently? ;) I like that kind of humor!

Thank you for the kind mention. I have been slowly but surely exploring your blog. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas. You also link out to some great stuff, like the Genpo Roshi podcast and that interview with Tony.

Keep up the great work,
MoMo

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An interesting thing is that Eckhart always points out, also in his latest book A New Earth, that the mind left to itself without any guidance by spirit creates the “problems” in the world. From my point of view, it loses the broader perspective and it takes the perspective of a seperate being, creating ignorance. If you feel oneness and love for everything that is, just even for a view moments, this perspective can shift from seperate to one with all others. Imagine how this would work on the conflicts, especially the so called “religious conflicts”, when everyone accepts that ultimately we are one.

So I believe in the spirit being the master, then using the mind and the body the best way possible.

Btw. can you link the article you mentioned about balance? Thank you.