Comments on: How To Be Your Own Placebo (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/other/how-to-be-your-own-placebo-part-2/ Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: kshatriya https://choprafoundation.org/other/how-to-be-your-own-placebo-part-2/#comment-658 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:10:12 +0000 http://deepakchopra.com/?p=10779#comment-658 Was reading here this morning before coming here and reading this thread. Interesting piece of synchronicity… 🙂

See the original Eckhart Tolle video interview discussed here below.

http://stillnessspeaks.com/videos/41/

It is no coincidence that this website is called StillnessSpeaks.com, that Eckhart Tolle has a book by the same name and that my friend gently pointed out the missing element not discussed in the video clip we shared with you.

It is an important message offered to those who have never been in the presence of a great teacher.

Here is what we discussed:

At some point, it is true that the mind is no longer useful. It can not and will never come to any successful conceptual understanding of awareness. What occurs is a dissolution of ignorance as the mind realizes its own folly. Ultimately,the vastness reveals itself. In this “seeing”, the mind becomes subservient to Presence rather than the other way around.

Once “the mind” sees the Truth regarding awareness, it’s struggle ends.

So, what does one do at this delicate point?

This was not clearly discussed in the dialogue with Eckhart Tolle.

It is simply, that Stillness actually speaks. As I have quietly shared for years, the greatest and humblest piece of advice I offer others deeply interested in Self Inquiry, the deepest secret I know, is the ineffable benefit of being in the presence of the teacher. It is Presence itself that teaches.

There is only One Teacher.

Once Eckhart shared that, when counseling others, he simply “held the space” for them (or some such words). That silent Presence, that sweet Stllness, surrounded and ultimately consumed them, without him needing to speak a word.

So, now you know the genesis of the Eckhart Tolle’s book title and this website’s namesake..

If you have been in the presence of a great teacher, you may have experienced this phenomena. Call it shakti, “spaceless space”, “Presence”, Consciousness or God. This is where the real teaching happens.

As Francis Lucille once shared, “Words are what we do to keep the mind busy while the transmission happens in the silence.”

I call it “God’s silent kiss”.

http://stillnessspeaks.com/ssblog/eckhart_tolle_chris_hebard_franklin_merrell_wolff/

]]> By: Debbie Bridge https://choprafoundation.org/other/how-to-be-your-own-placebo-part-2/#comment-657 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:43:40 +0000 http://deepakchopra.com/?p=10779#comment-657 “Letting go” is the key to unlocking the gateway to the pathways of our mind. However, how odd that it requires such intense searching for this key and much time and reflection before we even began the journey of letting go.

]]> By: mieke https://choprafoundation.org/other/how-to-be-your-own-placebo-part-2/#comment-656 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:38:18 +0000 http://deepakchopra.com/?p=10779#comment-656 I honour this way in You, like I honour my way in Me

]]> By: mieke https://choprafoundation.org/other/how-to-be-your-own-placebo-part-2/#comment-655 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:37:13 +0000 http://deepakchopra.com/?p=10779#comment-655 Every One goes his/her own way in this. That is his/her One way 🙂

]]> By: mieke https://choprafoundation.org/other/how-to-be-your-own-placebo-part-2/#comment-654 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:39:17 +0000 http://deepakchopra.com/?p=10779#comment-654 Thank you Deepak for this great exploration.

I can only say that practising Hatha Yoga now for so long (more than 35 years) has brought me a subtle awareness that can indeed influence my health.

My body itself tells me what to eat, when it is time to sleep, how to keep it in shape. It is something I have built up during the years.
Of course I believe Yoga is THE way for me.

I can only speak from my own experience.

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