Eckhart Tolle: Două Necesități ale Predării aka Two Requirements of Teaching (2003)ro_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

Eckhart Tolle: Două Necesități ale Predării aka Two Requirements of Teaching
(2003)ro_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

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Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle on February 16, 1948, is a German-born
resident of Canada, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth.
In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential
person in the world. In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most
popular spiritual author in the United States."

Teachings

Tolle writes in the introduction to his second book, Stillness Speaks, that "A true
spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the
word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs,
or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that
which separates you from the truth ... The words are no more than signposts."
Tolle says that his book, The Power of Now, is "a restatement for our time of
that one timeless spiritual teaching, the essence of all religions". He writes that
religions "have become so overlaid with extraneous matter that their spiritual substance
has become almost completely obscured", that they have become "to a large extent ...
divisive rather than unifying forces" and become "themselves part of the insanity".
Tolle writes that "the most significant thing that can happen to a human being
[is] the separation process of thinking and awareness" and that awareness is "the space
in which thoughts exist". Tolle says that "the primary cause of unhappiness is never the
situation but your thoughts about it".
According to Tolle's official website, "at the core of Tolle's teachings lies the
transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in
human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening consists in transcending our
ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness
but also for the ending of violent conflict endemic on our planet".
In his book A New Earth, Tolle describes a major aspect of the human dysfunction
as "ego" or an "illusory sense of self" based on unconscious identification with one's
memories and thoughts, and another major aspect he calls "pain-body" or "an accumulation
of old emotional pain".
Tolle often talks about the relevance of figures in intellectual or popular
culture. In A New Earth, he quotes Descartes, Sartre, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Albert
Einstein. He has spoken of movies such as Groundhog Day, American Beauty, The Horse
Whisperer, Gran Torino, Titanic, Avatar, Being There, and Forrest Gump, and musicians
such as Mozart, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. He arranged an album of music in 2008
entitled Music to Quiet the Mind including work composed by Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and
The Beatles, and music by contemporary artists such as Deva Premal, Jeff Johnson and Steve
Roach.

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