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Can you ‘Watch the Thinker?’
Not every one can do this
When most people think of the meaning of Enlightenment, they associate it with something along the lines of peace and happiness.
Though reaching/being Enlightened can have peace and happiness, there is more to it.
Eckhart Tolle defines Enlightenment as “your natural state of oneness with being” or, “state of connectedness”.
What does Tolle mean by “Being”?
Tolle describes “Being” as something you can know only when the mind is still. He says that Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
Oof.
Sounds more complicated than it actually is.
Being can easily be felt by the simple practice of Meditation.
You can feel what Tolle describes as a state of connectedness by calming the mind and reducing all the mindless chatter.
“State of connectedness; that is essentially you and yet is much greater than you”
-Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now
