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Thank you, Oprah For Last Year's "A New Earth Webinar"

I watched the series of ten webinars with rapt attention.

This lens showcases two articles I wrote about the webinar.

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Oprah and Eckhart: Overview

  1. A New Earth Webinar, Part 1
  2. Pain Body In The Waiting Room
  3. Tolle's Books
  4. Class Discussion of "Tolle's A New Earth"
  5. A New Earth Webinar, A Revolving Google Search!
  6. A New Earth Webinar, Part 2
  7. Now
  8. Eckhart Tolle Says: Become Aware Of The Now Itself!
  9. Love This Lens?
  10. Did You See The New Earth Webinar?
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A New Earth Webinar, Part 1

The Eckhart Tolle/Oprah Winfrey webinar exploring each chapter
in depth of "A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose" has
deepened my awareness and practice of Mindfulness, a spiritual
discipline I've loved for many years.

The webinar is a little over 1/2 done and each week, several million
more people are downloading and streaming it. People call in and ask
Oprah and Eckhart great questions about the concepts in the book. It's
a great pleasure to watch Eckhart Tolle teach the spiritual principles
calmly and peacefully and when he becomes excited by a certain concept,
he half chuckles and giggles, which is fun to watch!

I went to my Oral Surgeon today for an implant, carrying "A New Earth"
under my arm. The surgeon immediately made a comment about the book and
the webinar on Oprah.com.

So we discussed the ideas in the book. What I noticed is that he "got it."
He knew exactly what I was talking about when I said that the book is about
how to live mindfully, consciously and in the Now. When I said the Egoic Mind
can be eradicated by present moment living, the surgeon went into a rant
about rude behavior, unkind people and violence in American Society.

I said, Yes but you don't need to react to the chaos. Inner peaceful presence
is always available for your pleasure and inward sense of solace.

I wondered if he was referring to a client who was having a melt down in the
waiting room as I was led back to my exam room. She insisted that the office
did not call her that morning to tell her about her rescheduled appointment.
The woman was angry, tense and had the look of someone who was just about to
commit a violent act right there in the waiting room.

The other people there looked anxious as she kept yelling at the receptionist.

Eckhart Tolle would call this woman's negative energy her "pain body."

As we reacted negatively to her energy, our own pain body was triggered.

The pain body is the energy field of old emotions that live in almost every
human being. The pain body is not just individual in nature. It accounts for
all the suffering of collective humanity as in the case of rape, pillage,
tribal warfare, wars, slavery and genocide.

The pain body is an addiction to unhappiness.

Pain Body In The Waiting Room

So there it was in the waiting room today: A living breathing pain body
that triggered everyone else's pain body to react, to feel better than,
to judge this woman and even to use her as an example as to why people
in today's society are so screwed up.

Since so few of us like going to the Dentist let alone an Oral Surgeon,
the pain body is perhaps more easily triggered in places such as these.

This is a beautiful example of an activated pain body, but every day
we can find at least one. The beauty is found when reaction ceases, and we
become the Compassionate Presence or witness who really is a spark of
our own divinity.

True happiness arises out of present moment attunement and is always
available as soon as we allow it!

I loved the way Tolle describes dogs: as Guardians of Being.

As I watched and absorbed the webinar, I simultaneously took care of my dog
Mukunda, as he recovered from major surgery, the removal of 3 large cysts: 1
from the left side and 2 from the right side.

Both of my dogs, Mukunda and Ulysses, like it best when I'm focused on their antics,
when I hang out with them exclusively, when I walk with them, throw balls for them,
swim in the river and ocean with them, and stroke, brush and tell them how
much I love them.

When I absorb myself in cyberspace, read a book or especially when I talk
on the phone, Mukunda barks excitedly, reminding me to resume my love affair with
him.

The world tells me these dogs are spoiled. But I know that they are telling me
to Be Here Now, to look to them to best teach me eactly how to do this.

So I look to them to teach me how this is done.

And they have been my best teachers, counselors, companions and all around best pals.

I look to them.

I look up to them.

They are my Guardians of Being.

The waiting rooms of the world may always have unhappy people in them, people who
still can absorb the truth that the present moment is exactly where their happiness
is found, even if the Nowness is found in the waiting room of an Oral Surgeon.

I can't take my dogs there. But they will always be found in my heart, where ever I go,
in the joy of the quiet mind.

Tolle's Books

I Love Them All!!

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Class Discussion of "Tolle's A New Earth"

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A New Earth Webinar, Part 2

You Are The One You've Been Waiting For

My friend Cliff saw Eckhart Tolle on the Oprah Winfrey Show,
bought "A New Earth," written by Tolle, and read every word.

About two months later, he stopped for coffee on his way to work,
stepped off a curb, and fell on the pavement face first.

His hip broke. He heard the crack on the way down.

A day later, the doctors performed a successful hip replacement,
and Cliff was in for a long rehabilitation period.

Cliff's attitude impressed all of his friends. He was jolly, telling
jokes and instructed all of his visitors to read "A New
Earth."

Most of my friends have seen "The New Earth Webinar" on Oprah.com,
but we all got stalled on the last segment, Chapter 10, which
we heard was two hours long.

But seeing Cliff do so well facing his challenge, and as I attributed
this to Tolle's book, I decided to watch it.

At the same time, the 9/11 attack anniversary was commemorated privately
and publicly here in the U.S and throughout the world.

Tolle talks about his vision of the New Earth, which simply is bringing
consciousness to every moment, becoming aware that we are aware, becoming still
within this awareness.

This expanded perspective brings us to the realization that we are far greater
than the body or the physical dimension we all seem to agree on.

The rhythms of life include the ebb and flow, the expansion and contraction,
the inhaling and exhaling, the heart in motion and at rest, if only for
a mili-second.

We sleep then we wake up, whether remembering our dreams or not.

The seasonal changes give rise to a rebirth in spring time and a dissolution
of life in the Autumn and Winter, and a great abundance and plenty in the Summer
months especially here in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

And in this cyclic rhythm, there comes a time in the outgoing of life, in
the Youth of our lives, when we return to the Source, as we age.

In this phase of our earthly existence, we may come to the realization that
we are not separate from other humans, animals, rock, wind or water.

As we experience the death of loved ones, or perhaps a near death experience
in our own lives, an awakening often occurs.

As terrible as the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were, they
served to temporarily wake up America. For a period of several weeks, we were
all bonded in a unified state of love and compassion.

In New York, people spoke of an aura of safety, where people were not afraid
to speak to one another on the streets. People actually poured forth their
stories and communicated their inner most feelings with perfect strangers.

This is a beautiful example of a shared awakening. No one wanted this sense
of unity to end. But of course it did when the wars began.

Years ago, I shared a joke with one of the Family Practice Residents. I'd ask him,
"Are you a human doing or a human being?"

I gave him a book called The One Minute Meditator, and he eventually decided he'd
rather Be, rather than constantly Do, so he slowed down his life.

The act of being brought into our doing is what matters the most, Tolle said
on the last Webinar.

The act of being becomes more valuable with age but many young people also
see the wisdom of this, these days.

We don't have to be on the death bed to accept the Reality of Spirit.

Do you know when you are in the presence of a peaceful or disturbed person?

A disturbed person slams doors, sighs with worry or contempt, and throws papers across
the room.

Vietnamese Buddhist Thich Naht Hahn said of Thomas Merton, the Christian Mystic:
"He knows how to shut a door," gently, with mindful awareness and with respect.

Now

Yes, respectfully shutting a door, making bread by hand, serving and preparing
a meal, and washing each dish synchronized with the conscious breath is the portal
to Mindful Living.

Tolle says, "The only actions that do not cause opposing reactions are those aimed
at the good of all."

It's not what you do or what you say, but how you do it or say it
that matters. Are you centered and focused as you do it or say it, or distracted
and ill at ease?

Do I open the door as a means to an end or am I opening it with my fullest attention?

Tolle cites 3 components to Awakening:

1) Acceptance

2) Enjoyment

3) Enthusiasm

Tolle says that as you go about your day, if you are not experiencing acceptance,
enjoyment or enthusiasm, than you are bringing suffering to other people and to the world.

Don't worry about the difficult boss, the violence in our cities, the killing of innocent
people, the outcome of the 2008 Election here in America or anywhere else.

By accepting these challenges, you are not condoning them, says Tolle.

Begin to practice "Presence Power," which is the act of developing your
spiritual muscle.

Oprah made a good point that if you want to run a marathon, you must train for it.

The same is true for developing presence and conscious awareness.

Ask yourself: "Am I able to accept this moment exactly as it is?"

Because the control freak boss or whom ever you are confronting is
a lovable and loving child of God/ess.

But you may still need to step aside from it.

If you are stuck in an elevator with an ego-driven, loud talking ignoramus,
accept it, do not resist it.

Watch the drama as you would a movie. Step back!! Enjoy the show!!

Ask yourself: "Am I ok with the present moment?" If not, I am not
empowered, says Tolle.

What ever you do, from the act of making tea, looking out the window, watching
the clouds, listening to the rain, the airplane, the breathing of your dog: by
bringing presence to these small acts, by fully dimensionalizing the here and now,
great meaning and purpose results.

Be vigilant, like a radar and ask yourself from moment to moment, "Am I accepting,
enjoying, enthusing?"

As you perform an action, ask yourself, "Am I contaminating my movements and
actions with negativity from past memories, or am I joyfully accepting
and honoring this moment and Life Itself?"

Tolle says that true success depends on the quality of energy flowing into
what you are doing.

Choose to do what you must do, or don't do it. Make the process a conscious one.

As you enjoy the process, great creative thoughts, leading to enthusiastic action,
arise.

Again, practice with small acts. If I don't like going to work, accept it
(and show up anyway). If I am stuck in mud up to my knees, accept it.

Joy and enthusiasm arise from the ability to accept the small challenges.

The world is not here to make you happy. It is here to make you conscious, Tolle
emphasizes.

As we enter the flow of living, a conscious species is born.

We are It!!

Eckhart Tolle Says: Become Aware Of The Now Itself!

And Allow The Flow Of Consciousness To Recreate Your Life

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  • newbizmau Sep 21, 2010 @ 4:46 pm | delete
    If I had the power, I'd make this LOTD immediately. Simply and excellent lens on Eckhart Tolle and I love the way you included Oprah and her passion for trying to spread this message.
  • Apr 4, 2009 @ 5:54 pm | delete
    What a wonderful presentation of Eckhart's work! It's clear you got a lot out of the webinars, as I did.

    Greg Larsen is a trained facilitator of Eckhart's teachings. He does bi-weekly teleseminars and the podcasts are all available on his web site. The link is on Teleseminars for Personal and Spiritual Growth. I think you might enjoy them.
  • mukunda22 Jan 19, 2009 @ 10:15 pm | delete
    Kat, I am not at all surprised that you loved "A New Earth Webinar"!!

    Would have loved to see it with you!!

    Love to all,

    Kate

    [in reply to missguidedkat]
  • missguidedkat Jan 19, 2009 @ 8:24 pm | delete
    Kate, what a beautiful job of putting this all together. I read the power of now when it first came out and have given away more copies of it than I can remember. The New Earth found its way to me within a week of hitting the shelves and I gave copies away that Christmas. So, when I heard about the web cast, you can bet I cleared the space and took a front row seat for every episode.
    It was an amazing experience to watch this take the world by storm, and to watch fellow human beings around the world say, "We want more." If you don't already have it, please gift yourself a copy or the audio of "Stillness Speaks". And for anyone who is still stuggling with the aftermath of 9/11, "Even the Sun Will Die" is a wonderful presentation. Kat
  • mukunda22 Jan 19, 2009 @ 7:54 pm | delete
    Thanks for commenting, Joan and Charly--I am glad you In-Joyed!!

    [in reply to Joan4 and Charlyji]
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