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Super Soul Special: Eckhart Tolle: Free Yourself From Anxiety, Stress and Unhappiness
2025/3/5
Oprah's Super Soul
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Eckhart Tolle
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Oprah Winfrey
Eckhart Tolle: 我们正经历一场全球性的挑战，这是集体意识的考验。从更高的视角来看，这是必要的，它会促使我们提升意识。人们对自身思维模式的认同是自我的来源，而这种认同正是自我的本质。觉知到自己是意识的一部分，能够区分自己和自己的想法，这能让我们不再过度执着于观点和意见。通过觉察思想间的间隙，以及专注于当下体验，我们可以感知到自身作为意识的存在。每个人都会在适当的时候经历自我进化，而阅读和寻求精神成长本身就代表着一种觉醒。能够听到并理解这段对话，本身就代表着一种更高的意识状态。生活中发生的任何经历，都是为了促进我们意识的进化。我们此刻经历的一切，都是宇宙发展到这一阶段的必然结果，与其抗争只会带来痛苦。接纳当下，即使它并不完美，这能帮助我们更清醒地生活。痛苦并非源于客观情况，而是源于我们对情况的主观解读。觉察并观察自己的思维活动，是摆脱压力和痛苦的关键。自我会将他人视为异己，并放大他们的缺点，从而导致对他人的人性化理解缺失。将他人视为敌人，是将他人非人化的一种方式，而恐怖主义则是这种方式的极端表现。新地球仍在发展，而挑战是进步的动力。生活并非为了让我们快乐，挑战是成长的必经之路。意识的进化并非线性发展，会有前进和后退的阶段。当前的社会分裂，是促使我们提升意识的契机。挑战会带来痛苦，而痛苦会促使我们更深入地探索自我。选举结果反映了我们集体意识的现状。我们唯一能掌控的是自身的意识状态，而这决定了我们对外部环境的回应方式。打开心扉，避免将他人异化，是化解冲突的关键。在静默中倾听他人，能够感知到对方超越言语的本质，因为在静默中，我们也能感知到自身的本质。对人类意识的提升抱有希望。意识的提升是宇宙进化的一部分，是不可避免的。我们对事件的回应方式，比事件本身更重要。灵魂的本质是意识本身，它已经完整且完美。灵魂来到这个维度，是为了更充分地融入这个维度，而不是为了进化自身。对灵魂的理解是来自直觉的洞察，而不是理性思考的结果。内在的幸福感是始终存在的，它源于对自身意识的觉知。死亡意味着人格的消解，但意识会超越死亡而存在。对意识的觉知，让我们意识到自身超越时间和死亡的存在。
Oprah Winfrey: 每个人都有自我，而自我指的是我们对自身思维状态的认同。意识到自己是意识的一部分，而不是思想本身，这是世界上最重要的领悟。如何在表达不同意见的同时，避免陷入负面情绪？人们只有在危机状态下才会真正改变。
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Eckhart Tolle: 'The reason for the separation is that people are so identified with their particular mindset... Which is what ego is. That's what ego is, to be identified with mind, with thought structures, with opinions, with viewpoints, with perspectives.'
Oprah Winfrey: 'And the ego is really your identification with your mental state.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Our minds have been conditioned in certain ways. Everybody has their particular kind of conditioning, which goes back to childhood, environment, upbringing, family background, the culture that you grew up in. All that becomes a conditioning of your mind. And so, to be clear, whenever you are identifying with that mindset, it means that is your ego.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'But when you talk about your opinions or viewpoints, you no longer regard them as an essential part of who you are.'
Oprah Winfrey: 'That's the realization that can only come to you if you are observant and in the gap between two thoughts, for example, right now as we're speaking, if I slow down a little bit, then there will be very brief gaps between words or between sentences. And if you pay attention to the gaps, they're not only words,
Eckhart Tolle: 'And as there can be little spaces between your thoughts, between one thought and another, or when you're looking at something, nature, and for a moment you just look without imposing mental labels on things. And then to be able to sense your own presence in that moment as consciousness, the most essential thing about you is that you are conscious.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Everybody comes to their own evolution in their own due time. The fact that you're hanging in and you're reading this and you're seeking this means that you have reached a level of awakening.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'And that's a... It's a higher state of being if you can even hear this conversation.'
Oprah Winfrey: '
How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
Eckhart Tolle: 'The entire universe, meaning every human being who's ever lived and evolved to this point, and every person that's been born has been moving to this point in time where what we're experiencing in our lives personally and also on the political stage. Yes, because it's all connected. Has been coming forever.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'accept this moment as if you had chosen it. And that brings in a new consciousness. And do not deny the moment.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'A lot of the unhappiness that people experience, they believe it's due to the conditions of what's happening at this moment. But in most cases, it's not the conditions or the situation that you're in that causes the unhappiness. It's the mind telling you something about this moment that causes the unhappiness.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'This is the most vital thing in spiritual life. is to be able to watch your mind, to be the observer of your mind so that the mind is not controlling you. And that is how you eliminate stress.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'The ego's fear and distrust of other people, its tendency to emphasize the otherness of others by focusing on their perceived faults and make those faults into their identity, is taken a little further and makes others into inhuman objects.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'And this is the way you dehumanize others. Yes. Because once you have dehumanized another human being, then it becomes easy if you're very unconscious. Isn't that what terrorism is?'
Eckhart Tolle: 'It's happening, but it's being challenged. And from a higher perspective, being challenged is a good thing.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'You may find, if you've lived for long enough, that at some point you realize that the world isn't here to make you happy. It can't do that.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'We definitely have evolved in consciousness, but it does not go in a straight line upward. The evolution of consciousness happens, you regress, and then you go forward a bit more. It goes in cycles.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'I think that these times, however it's showing up in your life, because there's really only one goal and that is for us to become more conscious, to become more fully human, to fully express the depths of what we have come here to do, that this is showing up to bring out the most, the best, the highest.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'First you may suffer. If it drags you down into unconsciousness, then suffering arises again. And as you suffer, then you're forced to transcend the suffering and go deeper.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Yes, so it brought to the surface what was already there in the collective unconsciousness and now we have the division in pro administration in Washington and against it.'
Oprah Winfrey: 'But how can we have disagreements with people and see things that are wrong, that are injustices, stand up and take action and do that without getting ourselves sucked into the negativity?'
Eckhart Tolle: 'So it is then, if two conscious people having a discussion, let's say one is a Democrat and the other one is a Republican, and if both of these people have a certain degree of awareness, which means they are not totally identified with their perspective... With their point of views. They would be able to have a discussion without animosity arising, without regarding the other as an enemy.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'The need to be right is a very egoic thing. The ego thrives on being right, which always implies there needs to be someone who is wrong.'
Oprah Winfrey: 'You also teach us that humans don't really change until they are in a state of crisis.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Yes, and it may get worse before it gets better, but that is a necessary part of the evolution. So we need the crisis. Humans don't grow except through facing the challenges and crisis.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Well, the only thing you can take responsibility for is yourself, your own state of consciousness. So first of all, the most important thing to realize is in any situation, whether it's to do with a collective, political situation, personal situation, in any situation, what is primary is your state of consciousness, the state of consciousness with which you face that situation.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Everybody can just open that just a little bit.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'In that stillness, you can also feel a deeper essence in the other human being beyond the words that he or she is speaking. Why can you feel it? You can feel that deeper essence in the other because in that moment of stillness, you can feel it in yourself.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Despite the level of suffering people are inflicting upon themselves and on one another, do you have hope that people will wake up? Yes.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'because it's part of the entire evolutionary impulse of the universe, is towards consciousness. So it is arising.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'the most important thing is not what's happening out there, that what is primary is my state of consciousness at this moment. That determines what form the future will take. So the important thing to realize is what happens to you is much less important than how you respond to what happens.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Well, by soul I have another word for it. I've recently been using the pointer the deep eye. At that level of the deep eye, which is consciousness itself, you are already complete. The deep eye has nothing to achieve.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'So there's no evolution of the deep I itself because at that level you're already complete and perfect and it's timeless. But as it comes into this dimension... So your soul isn't here to evolve? Your soul isn't here on the planet to evolve? It's here to come more fully into this dimension.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Well, it's an intuitive insight. A question is asked and then the answer comes through the stillness. That's how it works. It's not figured out through the mind.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'There's always a well-being. Of course, the body changes. The physical well-being can vary. But underneath the physical well-being, there's always a deeper sense of well-being, and it arises out of the realization of the deep eye.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'Well, the personality dissolves. But to realize that is when the ego subsides and you become aware of your deep eye, which is awareness itself. We just put it like that.'
Eckhart Tolle: 'You become aware of the deep eye. That's the part of you that is beyond death. So when you can sense the consciousness in you, then you become actually aware of that which is also beyond time and that which is ultimately divine in you, the divine dimension, to use that term.'
Deep Dive
Eckhart Tolle discusses the current state of the world, emphasizing the role of ego in creating division and suffering. He highlights the importance of shifting from egoic mind to consciousness and observing one's thoughts without identifying with them.
- Ego is the source of pain and division.
- Collective challenges are opportunities for growth.
- The shift to consciousness involves observing thoughts without identifying with them.
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