brief excerpt from Oprah-Tolle Class #10

[Guest guest]

if you haven't been following the course, it's over now,

but all 10 classes have been archived

and available for download video, audio (for fast pcs)

and text( if you have slow dial up )

 

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE):

A moment of stillness. Now, as you know, you need to put your

attention somewhere in order to find the stillness. The attention needs

to move out of the dimension of thinking. So we've practiced in the past

with putting our attention into the inner feeling of aliveness in the

body. We've also, I believe, put our attention on our breath, and we've

put our attention on sense perceptions—whatever we can see or hear

outside. But this time we go one step further. And I suggest, this is a

little bit more subtle, as we enter this moment of stillness, we put our

attention on the fact that we are conscious. In other words, we become

aware that there is a light in us, using " light " metaphorically, a

presence, a space of awareness. That is pure attention. So instead of

being aware of something—our breath, or the inner body, or sense

perceptions—let's just be aware that we are aware. You feel your own

presence and become still.

 

(ten seconds of stillness)

 

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Let's be aware we are aware. And become still.

That was good. I think even Dean the stage manager became aware. He is

aware, right, Dean? The themes of Chapter 10 are truly the culmination,

I think, of what all of our work has been about. How to bring

consciousness to every moment and to every action of our lives, and in

the process learning that we are far greater than anything that we could

have imagined ourselves to be.

 

my comment: it's great that you can use these simple techniques at any

time throughout the day for a moment or two, even just for a few

seconds; the more frequently the better.