Eckhart, unlike many spiritual teachers is authentic sure enough, but I do find it a little frustrating when folks make things unnecessarily complex. Spirituality is a VERY simple thing. Very simple indeed.

In Eckhart’s early days he never did talk about meditation, which I also found frustrating since it’s the simplest and most powerful path. Now he does. That’s because his awakening was spontaneous due to suffering, so he had no experience of the earnest “pursuit” of enlightenment.

Thanks for the thanks :-)

All the best,
Mike

I just wanted to thank you for your timely information — it feels like it was just FOR ME. I’ve read Eckhart and Rhonda… I was confused.
so thank you.

P

Thanks very much for your prompt reply…i’m going to have a ponder on things and post again in a bit.

happiness

Amanda :)

It seems to me like you have a good handle on everything.

The key to everything is self mastery, to choose consciously. As you say, we are here and so we are choosing anyway, all the time by our ATTENTION.

Meditation teaches you that attention is where the power is. To get to “NOW” it does take a lot of effort at first to hold onto your chosen focus — to ATTEND to your chosen focus.

With practice, the effort becomes effortless and then life does indeed flow. But you always have choice.

Mastery IS deliberate choice. Action not reaction. To be unaffected, non-reactive.

The difficulty comes in defining where YOU are in all this. The fact is that your sense of self shifts until in the end it’s impossible to self-define.

That’s because the very definition is a “lie” — a thought!

St Francis of Assisi said “It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.” That’s in Christian terms but it means death of the ego, the false self. Any self-definition based on thoughts is a lie, a dream of thought-form.

Then if you wish to create, you do so deliberately and yes, the vision comes first and grows as a clear and bright thought-feeling. Then it is already real within you and the enthusiasm draws life into it to make it reality.

It says in “Conversations with God” that passion is God saying “Hi” ahahah I love that.

It’s true for me that the more alive you are — the healthier and more alighed with life you are, the more creative and passionate you become.

Seek first the kingdom of God — align with now, with life. Make that your primary aim because THAT need earnestness, effort and without that, there is simply no way to choose and your false self will not die.

Abraham has said that meditation is the ULTIMATE allowing place. ULTIMATE.

When you are master of your attention, the effort ceases and you are consciously creating by your vision, by your attention, by your passion. Or you can be still, return, go home — even that is a choice.

~Mike

“For me it is like this:
Spiritual teachings don’t say that you have to create. Life is creating by itself, just stay out of the way (the ego). You don’t have to do anything.
Everything is moving all the time, by itself. You don’t have to make it move.
If you are in a high state of consciousness, good things are creating by itself and you are just observing what is creating.
You just go with the flow.”

I’m interested to know ur perspective on this. You say “life is creating all the time”, which I agree with, but please could you explain to me which part of ‘you’ is not life? An Abraham explanation of what u mention above is that in each moment of contrast a desire/preference is set forth which is immediately answered and created by source, this IS what creates the expansion and flow of life and is why the physical is so important to the non physical as without it there is no creativity, no flow to life and thus no ‘life’.

Abraham agrees that all you have to do to for the creation to manifest is to to allow and release resistance which can simply be by ‘not thinking thoughts’ all day long, but if u choose to be in physical then there are choices to be made unless u choose to stay motionless in one place all ur life and thus thoughts arise as thoughts are the creative force.

Abraham suggest that its fine to release resistance by thinking less but more fun to actively deliberatly create…if ur gonna be thinking anywayz you might as well learn discernment and consciously create (or rather consciously allow…the creation part is done) because of the feeling and the joy and expansion of that is immense and what we are here for…to experience, to create…to choose….to have fun and get in the flow! To be joy, to be love. How would tolle explain the process of creation? Or ’should’ u not ‘think’ about that as it is a thought and its better to be? just wondering for my own clarity….Namaste :)