Ekhart Tolle's Benefits Of Awareness

Benefits of Awareness

In addition to emphasizing that awareness is the path of spirituality, Ekhart Tolle talks about benefits to be gained by awareness even in our empirical day to day living.

He says awareness leads to a significant slowing down of the aging process of the physical body. While on the path of awakening of consciousness, one can continue in one’s present form yet be aware of the formless and deathless deep within one’s self. Awareness of the inner body has many benefits. One of them is a significant slowing down of the aging of the physical body. The pictures, statutes, images, idols etc. of enlightened persons are never old age forms. One should try it to find out that one is the scientific evidence of this.

Another benefit

But Being is not only beyond but also deep within every life form as its innermost, invisible and indestructible essence” . Tolle seems to be talking only Indian philosophy and more so Sāṃkhya and Yoga philosophy! He says this essence is available and accessible for us. Unfortunately, we can attain it through the mind. No extent of intellectual analysis will take one closer to it. It is only when mind is still or transcended that one can realize it;” cittavṛttinirodhaḥ, Tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe'vasthānam”!) When one adopts the witnessing stand and is thus fully in the now, it can be realized. To become aware and maintain oneself in the state of awareness is

They identify with the mind and are victims of non0stop thinking. Involuntary thinking is the disease of the human mind. Man thinks he can attain satisfaction, peace and bliss through the mind. But the mind provides only fleeting illusions of happiness. The mind invariably creates frameworks of labels / names, concepts, images, ideas, judgments, definitions, ideologies, etc and prevent the experience of reality per se. This blocks all true relationships. Not only not allowing to see the world as it is, the mind does not allow oneself to see oneself really is. It is a two-sided veil. The net result is that the mind alienates oneself from the external world as well as from the internal Reality. It creates an illusion of separateness and isolation. Thinking has become a disease. Where all progress that man has made in the external world is due to thinking, this same thinking has become the biggest hurdle in the internal world. Tolle interestingly says that if one can find the “off” button of one’s mind, then one can become the master of his mind. Solving a crossword puzzle or creating an atom bomb need not necessarily mean optimum use of the mind! Most of the wonderful inventions / discoveries in science, painting and sculpture, dance and music have come from the intuition and not the intellect. Transcendence of intellect is the foundation of creativity. Beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – all that really matters in life