The above is so totally untrue! The mind is the mechanism that stores our memories: our past, present and possible future images. …it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don’t use it at all. Giving in to some omnipresent consciousness is to deny your existence, your past, your future, your humanity, your obligations, the drive to create, to care for something or someone. It is our individuality, the ‘self’ that defines what we are. If he achieved nirvana, he is alone in his heaven. This is not enlightenment, but denial! It is man’s ability to think, to reason, evaluate his condition, learn from past events, individual experiences, grasp an idea and develop it, imagine a future and plan for it these define the thinking man, an ability that has brought him out of the cave to the Moon, daring to reach for the stars.īuddha may have spent his life sitting in a lotus position, but he was a lonely individual who shunned human companionship and human interaction. But Eckhart goes on to define it again as ‘your very essence’.Įnlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking.Įckhart is suggesting man should not think, but simply drift with life, accepting events as they happen. He is correct saying that Being explains nothing. The word Being explains nothing, but nor does God…It is your very essence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence… On one hand, Eckhart states that Being is some external consciousness, beyond understanding. You can know it only when the mind is still.
But don’t seek to grasp it with your mind. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. Detailed observations:īeing is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. That is a far cry from saying we must forget our past and future and live only in the present. Certainly, we spend a lot of our time with personal regrets and with ‘if only I did…’, and these things are negative and destructive. But like I said, it is a product of someone who is himself simple and naïve. I find his philosophy – and I am being generous here – naïve and unrealistic. I cannot help but shake my head that people will believe what Eckhart is saying. That is how all evangelists and faith healers operate. To the ignorant, Eckhart’s ideas could have value – in a simplistic way, because in people’s busy lives, they can only afford the time to delve into the simplistic, something that will reinforce their own personal and ignorant beliefs. The Power of Now appears to be popular, and it may be popular with people who have not read widely on human psychology, human physiology, makeup of our social fabric, formative religions, law, politics, ethics, and the sciences. I am amused by what he has to say, not that he is convincing me of the validity of his arguments, or that he is presenting a revelation. But this is what I expect from pseudo-evangelists who have developed a certain point of view and are now blind to any evidence that might contradict that view. I found Eckhart Tolle simplistic, ignoring scientific evidence, presenting a home-cooked version of human behaviour and his approach to life and what it means, couched in contradictory language.
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