Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle ( born February 16, 1948 in Lünen as Ulrich Tolle) is a German-born, living in Vancouver bestselling author of spiritual books.

Life

Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany but spent his youth from the age of 13 with his father in Spain. At 19, he moved to England. By his own account, he completed his studies at the University of London and worked at the University of Cambridge in research and supervision.

At the age of twenty-nine years he experienced, by its own account, a sudden and radical spiritual awakening. From that moment, he felt called to the spiritual teacher.

Works and content

He has published four books. The first thing was to find as number one on the bestseller list of the New York Times, has been translated into over 30 languages ​​.

In his books used great pictures and statements from various mystical traditions such as Christian mysticism, Sufism or Buddhism to describe his proposed path to inner freedom. Eckhart Tolle has different countries of the world traveled and taught there.

The accomplished by himself changed its name from Ulrich to Eckhart is according to some a play on the German mystic Meister Eckhart.

Teaching

According to information Tolle committed no tradition and no doctrine in the sense of belief. Implicit parallels his view and teaching, at or below which it provides almost exclusively methodological instructions, he looks especially to Advaita Vedanta, for Taoism or Zen Buddhism, as it postulates a psychological development ability of man.

He himself referred to some key concepts as characteristic of his thinking:

  • His / the Unmanifested / the formless: the level of the ultimate reality, the essence, the true nature, the divine. The antithesis to the level of form and time, the level of the manifests.
  • Unconsciousness: a rationally -dominated state of mind in which the person is blind to the deeper dimension of Being. Access to the plane of the " formless " is only possible beyond thinking.
  • Ego / Identity: The sum of all the features of a person from which the mind constructs a self-image. Identity in the constructivist sense arises when a person identifies with specific characteristics (appearance, professional status, membership of a nation or religious community ). These features are, as the raw material that joins together the mind into a compact ego. Great contrast meant by identity, self-knowledge as the formless.
  • Life: one located in the temporal manifesting detail of a personal biography. An individual life history section from which the unconscious mind constructs an " ego ".
  • Pain-body: the sum biographical suffering that condenses into a negative quasi- autonomous energy field. The resolution of the pain body occurs when a person breaks through his identification with the pain-body.

Quotes about Eckhart Tolle

" Eckhart Tolle 's there. An unassuming man of 56 years. Economical gestures. Laconic facial expressions. He works in themselves dormant, calmly, with an almost disturbing serenity. " You on making sure that you're here ," says this anti- guru, anti- motivator, anti entertainer that looks at first glance like a verschüchterter, rammed by a not -to-explain insanity of fate on the big stage student of theology in the 20th semester. [ ... ] Eckhart Tolle does not lecture, he meditated aloud. Umschweifig, rambling, rarely concretely; the people of the entertainment and tabloid age may easily digestible edifying. [ ... ] One can accuse the enlightened except Platitüdennähe hardly anything. They give no promise of salvation. Do not dogmatize. "

" Eckhart Tolle, born in Lunen, was in the United States to the spiritual world star. In short, he teaches: Live now. But the English and heavily accented. Americans love him all the more because they think: This is Buddhism plus superior German engineering ".

Works (selection)

  • Now! The Power of Now. A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. Kamp -hausen, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-933496-53-5. Part Edition: Living Relationships NOW! Kamp -hausen, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89901-058-2.
  • Part Edition: The unity of all life. Goldmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-33873-3.

Films and sound recordings

  • Now! The Power of Now. ( When reading the author on 8 CDs).
  • The transformation of consciousness. ( As a DVD or video).
  • Freedom of thought. ( As a DVD or video).
  • Gateways for now. CD The three techniques to higher consciousness.
  • Freedom of thought. 3 Audio CDs of the lecture in Fürstenfeldbruck from May 9
  • It is always now! 5 CDs of audio lectures in Zurich and Bern on 11 and May 15
  • Find the stillness within you ( 6 Audio CDs).
  • Life from the fullness of being, 1 DVD video, audio CDs or 2 of the lecture in Berlin on 15 September 2007.
  • A New Earth: Awakening to instead of self-destruction ( When reading the author on 9 CDs).
  • Discover your purpose in life. 1 DVD of a lecture in California, in 2008 with German subtitles.
  • Living in the now - but how? Part 1 and 2, 1 DVD-Video and 2 audio CDs of lectures in Karlsruhe ( 26 October 2010) and Hanover ( 28 October 2010).
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