"The Power of Now (Platinum Edition)" Reading Notes#
Author: Eckhart Tolle
Reading Duration: 0 hours
These are the notes and excerpts I recorded while reading "The Power of Now (Platinum Edition)" on WeChat Reading.
Introduction#
You exist in this world to fulfill the sacred purpose of the universe. Look, how important you are!
You exist in this world to fulfill the sacred purpose of the universe. Look, how important you are!
Chapter One You Are Not Your Mind#
I like how the Buddha simply defined enlightenment as "the end of suffering."
It is the identification with your thinking that compels people to think compulsively.
Thought identification creates a series of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that obstruct all your true relationships. These things stand between you and yourself, you and others, you and nature, you and God. It is this thinking that creates an illusion of isolation, an illusion that you are completely separate from others. Thus, you forget a fundamental fact: that beneath the appearance of separation from all beings, you are actually one with everything.
In this blankness, you are highly alert, your attention is highly focused, but you are not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
I like how the Buddha simply defined enlightenment as "the end of suffering."
It is the identification with your thinking that compels people to think compulsively.
Thought identification creates a series of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that obstruct all your true relationships. These things stand between you and yourself, you and others, you and nature, you and God. It is this thinking that creates an illusion of isolation, an illusion that you are completely separate from others. Thus, you forget a fundamental fact: that beneath the appearance of separation from all beings, you are actually one with everything.
In this blankness, you are highly alert, your attention is highly focused, but you are not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
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