Book Reading: "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tole(Chapter One) : Book Reading: "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tole(Chapter One)
Contents : Contents To share with you...
My Stories
Benefits of Book Reading
My Views on Book Reading
Reading Note on 'A New Earth' (Ch 1.)
What I have Learned
My Stories- "your father will find you!"When I was very young, I followed my father's footsteps in a large and crowded market. And I found I had lost my father, and started to cry and rushed into the crowd. I ran and ran while crying. But a man graped me and said, "Don't move, just be here. Then your father will find you. Don't worry." And I was found and went home safely.- "I will find out what it is!"When I was in mid-forties, I was very depressed and lost my life's purpose. When I couldn't bear that powerless feeling any more, I determined to find out what the problem was I had. I started to read books a lot. Did I find the ultimate answer to my questions? Well, I don't know still...- To overcome my feeling of being lost, now I'm a member of a reading club. We get together every week and read "A New Earth" now at Skype. : My Stories- "your father will find you!"When I was very young, I followed my father's footsteps in a large and crowded market. And I found I had lost my father, and started to cry and rushed into the crowd. I ran and ran while crying. But a man graped me and said, "Don't move, just be here. Then your father will find you. Don't worry." And I was found and went home safely.- "I will find out what it is!"When I was in mid-forties, I was very depressed and lost my life's purpose. When I couldn't bear that powerless feeling any more, I determined to find out what the problem was I had. I started to read books a lot. Did I find the ultimate answer to my questions? Well, I don't know still...- To overcome my feeling of being lost, now I'm a member of a reading club. We get together every week and read "A New Earth" now at Skype.
Benefitsof Book Reading : Benefitsof Book Reading Increases Empathetic Understanding of Others
Enhances Insight and Integration
Promotes Coping Skills
Provides Information and Alternatives
Stimulates Discussion of Feelings and Ideas
Increases Enjoyment of Literature and Reading
My Views on Book Reading : My Views on Book Reading To experience Presence or Now
Can we meet true self while reading aloud a spiritual book in a attentive way?
Can we apply some teachings to our daily life?
Can we look clearly our defense mechanism of the ego and let it go?
Beyond self-image and map To improve self-image or concept map
Whenever we read something, we can practice how to catch key points and learn something new.
Build up meta-cognition power, like an airport control tower
Related with conceptual understanding
I would often wake up in extreme feeling of dread and fear; consumed by dread and fear. The whole world seemed alien. I saw the thought one night, I woke up again and the thought came, "I can't live with myself any longer. I just can't live with myself any longer; it's so painful." And that thought repeated itself a few times. And then suddenly, something happened inside me, and I looked at the thought. That was of course awareness. I didn't know at that time what it was. I became aware of the thought and I said, "I cannot live with myself. That's strange, so there must be I and there must be myself. Am I one or two? I seem to be two. Because if I can't live with myself, there must be two of me here." And then I became aware of the structure of the sentence. And said, "If that's the case, then who is the self that I cannot live with? And who am I?" And that moment, a separation happened completely between the essential "I," which is the essential consciousness that I am, beyond past and future; the eternal stillness. It just happened, and I felt like being drawn into a kind of vortex, and then I went to sleep. And the last thing I felt, there was still some fear. The voice said "Don't resist, or resist nothing. Don't resist, resist nothing." And so I must have gone to sleep then. And the next morning I woke up and looked around and looked, everything looked so fresh. All the old furniture, the pencil. Everything looked fresh and alive. As I caught a bird song outside as if I'd never heard it before. Because the mind had become still, and there was simply the beautiful perception of everything. The sunlight coming through the curtains. Incredible. I've never seen that before. : I would often wake up in extreme feeling of dread and fear; consumed by dread and fear. The whole world seemed alien. I saw the thought one night, I woke up again and the thought came, "I can't live with myself any longer. I just can't live with myself any longer; it's so painful." And that thought repeated itself a few times. And then suddenly, something happened inside me, and I looked at the thought. That was of course awareness. I didn't know at that time what it was. I became aware of the thought and I said, "I cannot live with myself. That's strange, so there must be I and there must be myself. Am I one or two? I seem to be two. Because if I can't live with myself, there must be two of me here." And then I became aware of the structure of the sentence. And said, "If that's the case, then who is the self that I cannot live with? And who am I?" And that moment, a separation happened completely between the essential "I," which is the essential consciousness that I am, beyond past and future; the eternal stillness. It just happened, and I felt like being drawn into a kind of vortex, and then I went to sleep. And the last thing I felt, there was still some fear. The voice said "Don't resist, or resist nothing. Don't resist, resist nothing." And so I must have gone to sleep then. And the next morning I woke up and looked around and looked, everything looked so fresh. All the old furniture, the pencil. Everything looked fresh and alive. As I caught a bird song outside as if I'd never heard it before. Because the mind had become still, and there was simply the beautiful perception of everything. The sunlight coming through the curtains. Incredible. I've never seen that before. ECKHART TOLLE's EPISODE : An Eye-Opening Experience
A New Earth Chapter 1-Problem Statement- : Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and become like crystals or precious stones, so to speak, transparent to the light of consciousness?
Can they defy the gravitational pull of materialism and materiality and rise above identification with form that keeps the ego in place and condemns them to imprisonment within their own personality? A New Earth Chapter 1-Problem Statement-
A New Earth Chapter 1-Solutions and Perspectives- : A New Earth Chapter 1-Solutions and Perspectives- You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.
An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state. That is why this book shows the main aspects of the ego and how they operate in the individual as well as in the collective.
A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH The inspiration for the title of this book came from a Bible prophecy that seems more applicable now than at any other time in human history. It occurs in both the Old and the New Testament and speaks of the collapse of the existing world order and the arising of “a new heaven and a new earth.” We need to understand here that heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness. This is the esoteric meaning of the word, and this is also its meaning in the teachings of Jesus. Earth, on the other hand, is the outer manifestation in form, which is always a reflection of the inner. Collective human consciousness and life on our planet are intrinsically connected. “A new heaven” is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and “a new earth” is its reflection in the physical realm. Since human life and human consciousness are intrinsically one with the life of the planet, as the old consciousness dissolves, there are bound to be synchronistic geographic and climatic natural upheavals in many parts of the planet, some of which we are already witnessing now. : A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH The inspiration for the title of this book came from a Bible prophecy that seems more applicable now than at any other time in human history. It occurs in both the Old and the New Testament and speaks of the collapse of the existing world order and the arising of “a new heaven and a new earth.” We need to understand here that heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness. This is the esoteric meaning of the word, and this is also its meaning in the teachings of Jesus. Earth, on the other hand, is the outer manifestation in form, which is always a reflection of the inner. Collective human consciousness and life on our planet are intrinsically connected. “A new heaven” is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and “a new earth” is its reflection in the physical realm. Since human life and human consciousness are intrinsically one with the life of the planet, as the old consciousness dissolves, there are bound to be synchronistic geographic and climatic natural upheavals in many parts of the planet, some of which we are already witnessing now.
Lessons Learned : Lessons Learned Online activities improved my English Speaking?
Openness improved my self-esteem
Reading can be a process for self-discovery
I have tried to form a community of inquiry
Once started, the proper way could be found
Art comes from good observation
Quality comes from paying attention
Thank You...I'm happy to meet you allRelated TopicsBibliotherapyTranspersonal PsychologyCommunity of Practice/InquiryRelated BooksPower of NowWherever you go, there you are : Thank You...I'm happy to meet you allRelated TopicsBibliotherapyTranspersonal PsychologyCommunity of Practice/InquiryRelated BooksPower of NowWherever you go, there you are