Eckhart Tolle – Enlightened Relationships Part 2

October’s Stillness Within Meetup featured a recorded talk by Eckhart Tolle which focused on the challenges and opportunities emerging from our relationships with others.   Eckhart explored how more and more people are beginning to experience a shift from an egoic, thought-based identity to the realization of what Eckhart calls the essential Being nature.  The talk provided a practical look at how this emerging awareness impacts relationships, as well as the steps to welcome the vertical dimension of space and stillness as the source of true connection and harmonious relationships.   The group found the topic a rich one for discussion, and members noted that it is often through our closest relationships that we can be presented with the parts of ’emotional body’ that are constricted or where accumulated pain or trauma has become entrenched.  When these are noticed, we can, with a gentle curiosity, examine them without judgement.  Often, simply the detached noticing will result in a shift in the momentum of an emotion (helping us to shift from unconsciousness to consciousness).  Partners can even support one another by asking the simple question:  I see there is a strong reaction happening – is it possible that your pain body has been triggered?   Krishnamurti also recognises the value of relationships in helping us to shed past conditioning, but the real opportunity falls back to us to inquire within if we are to find true freedom:  “Self-awareness is to know one’s self, one’s attachments, one’s loneliness, one’s sense of isolation and all that, to know the totality of oneself”. And….”it is possible to know oneself completely, then we can approach the world and ourselves as a whole”. Third Public Talk at Brockwood Park September, 1979   The six who took part in the session stayed for a more informal visit over tea as well.  Thanks again to the KECC for supporting these valued gatherings.   Hosted on October 8, 2016