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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Posted by admin | Posted in Philosophy | Posted on 24-08-2010

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The Power of Now is a guide to spiritual awakening from a man who is emerging as one of this generation’s clearest, most inspiring teachers on the subject. Eckhart Tolle is not aligned with any particular religion but does what all the great masters have done: shows that the way, the truth, and the light already exist within each human being. There is no need to look elsewhere. At the heart of the book is Tolle’s own story of early despair that culminated in a life-transforming experience of enlightenment at the age of 29. He emerged to share insights on the perils of the mind, the power of the present, and the accessibility of one’s true nature. According to Tolle, “To regain awareness of Being and to abide in that state of ‘feeling-realization’ is enlightenment.”Amazon.com Review
Ekhart Tolle’s message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle’s clear writing, supportive voice, and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who’s ever wondered what exactly “living in the now” means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container–more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness.

Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence, and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he’s added markers that symbolize “break time.” This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read. As a result, The Power of Now reads like the highly acclaimed A Course in Miracles–a spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire just as many study groups and change just as many lives for the better. –Gail Hudson

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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No Other Gospel (Galatians 1:6-10)

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel– 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant [2] of Christ.

This is a different gospel… it sounds good because it appeals to a human’s way of thinking..but do not be mistaken, this is not from God. Also please realize, that anything that is not from God is from the Deceiver. Pray that God would reveal the truth to you.

Romans 3:21-24

21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it– 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus

God bless and God lead.
Rating: 1 / 5

You really think this book is true just because someone else says so? Because the author spent 10 years toiling after what made HIMSELF happy? All he did was rip off buddhism and slap a new title on it. This book is not the way to joy. This book is not the way to live a life of meaningful relationships, and it’s certanly not the way to feel good about yourself. What is your purpose here on this planet? Why are you here? For yourself? What kind of life is that? Living for yourself. Thats not a way to live. Don’t get me wrong I am not condeming you for buying this book. No. What I am doing is asking you your motives. Why you are buying this book, and if you are sure you want to go on living a life this book wants you to lead. I urge you, ask yourself, “Why do I do the things I do,” and more importantly, “who do I do them for?”
Rating: 1 / 5

This guy is a straight hustler, ala the carpetbaggers of the old West. Christians beware: Paul clearly warns us in 2 Timothy 3 to steer clear of nonsense like this. Just like we have to endure the ease and pleasure in this life, sometimes we may have to endure the pain and hardness as well. No one can truly predict when it will happen. But it is through endurance that we’ll find salvation and strength. If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ don’t be hoodwinked by this New Age wordplay, you’ll mess around and lose more than you stand to gain.
Rating: 2 / 5

The power of death bed conversions recognizes the fact of the now, and the importance of the soul of each human being that supercedes the convention of society and how expectations guide the things that stir our souls, the moral spirituality that honors the life within, the the heart that beats with less time than it had yesterday. Death bed conversions honors the total person that forsees a time when the body no longer serves the soul, but is frail and helpless in its humanity. The inspiration that allows a person to be, and feel alive, is one that is intensely personal, and one that has a uniquely subjective outlook designed to maximize the moment, as the dying swans’s extended overture of an end game of enormous proportions, the experience of many before us. The inspiration to extend the earthly time to accomplish both bodily and mindfully important tasks meant to appease the soul of any individual in his or her capacity to influence the vision of his or her surroundings before life drifts into the oblivion of being erased. It relies not upon the acceptance of others but the recognition that what good or help might be completed is far superior to the desires or expectations of others who might limit, curtail, or prevent that instinctively agressive human impetus – to full personal objectives, according to one’s own internal clock as seen from the perception of life in its full contemplation of limits, and consistent with one’s own priorities. This exercise of the free will is incredibly important and a part of the human experience that reveals the instinctive man or women struggling to fulfill its total mission on earth, to achieve the serenity that will allow it to disappear in honor, respect, and dignity, the ideal of every human being destined to disappear in his or her own good time. This soul clock is untamed by man or religion since it conceives its intent from one’s own self perception of possibilities and potential, played out upon the abbreviated passing of time that is allocated to each of us. Hence, the inspired rushes through to accomplish everything possible since haste forecloses both complacency and the untimeliness of those before us, built into our instinctive sense of time. So, we challenge the propriety of inconsistency or incongruency of spiritual risk to develop fully the human potential of our destiny or what we feel is our destiny by the vibrations which flow through us. Life being somewhat uncertain, the body and the soul clock each attune themselves to each other to accomplish this human mission, hopefully with time to spare. It is God’s gift, this instinct for survival, for mission and for directive, a self help unique to each individual, aware of his own frailty and of his own potential, at once, his personal collage of significance, all too aware of his or her personal contract with his maker, and in harmony.
Rating: 5 / 5

At the encouragement of someone who has in the past shown interest in Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, I read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. While I did not consider the reading a complete waste of time, I did consider the author so profoundly wrong about so many things that I cannot honestly recommend the book. His thesis that “mind identification” serves as the source for all strife in the world stands squarely at odds with reason as man’s only means of knowing and his method of survival.

When I kindly informed my acquaintance of this, he replied that he agreed with Tolle’s thesis of “mind identification” as the source of all evil. He shared that he considers Objectivism and any other philosophy that assigns labels to experiences as violent because labels truncate and compartmentalize the experience of the whole, thus violating that whole into parts. I kindly responded that in that case, I no longer had interest in conversing with him. I added him to my block list in the chat program we used and have not talked to him since that time.

Much of Tolle’s material draws on the teachings of the Buddha.

The only nice comments I can make about the book regard the author’s challenge to the reader to remain focused on the present moment rather than obsess with a fictional salvation in the future. When a person says, “When I do _____, I will be happy,” it interferes with his enjoyment of the now. This does not mean a fall into whim worship. It does mean sharpening the conscious awareness of the now so that you can gain full enjoyment of it before it becomes then.
Rating: 2 / 5

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