The Power of Vipassana for Presence | Eckhart Tolle on Meditation Practices

The teachings of the Buddha are to go beyond suffering via the 8 fold Noble Path. It takes a lot of effort but most of us are very conditioned by much more than we know. Those who are open and ready will meet the teachers that can help them. I would encourage anyone who is open to it and doesn’t think they already know to do one of these courses or any other Buddhist retreat with a good teacher.

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I found my path, the path of Dhamma, through Vipassana. I will be eternally grateful. May all beings be free, at peace, and happy! Mettā

Though beginner vipassana retreats teach body awareness, I would not limit vipassana technique to body. Once you can maintain focus on breath and body, you can work with thoughts and emotions.

The world is divided between those that think they are God and those who know they aren’t.

Vipassana changed my life. The end of suffering.

To know this mind/body phenomenon fully is to know reality fully. Which washes away ego, delusion, suffering. I feel so lucky that I was able to recieve this teaching. ❤ to all beings

Best thing to deal with ypur own traumas and 9issues. It saved me from myself

Funny. The question is about "the thought watching" method of Vipassana, while ET is talking about the sensation based form of Vipassana. Two different things actually.

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He is not Buddha like Jesus Like.
But not considered as wise as them, nor as helpfull as them.
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Yes indeed it is powerful and also very very difficult for a know it all like me. A lot of my mental stuff/addictions began to manifest as excruciating pain especially in the hips. (I was only 30) About half way through the course you are encouraged to remain in the same position for the whole hour without moving. I can't explain how I suffered with this but ultimately I decided I didn't care if I died I wasn't moving. This experience has stayed with me poignantly much similar to the lysergic acid stories or near death experiences I've heard described. I could witness the pain, merely as something which was happening, if you could even say that. Much like the scene in the matrix where he sees everything in code. I was looking at information and a choice whether to react or not. As if I was in the control room of consciousness looking out into the factory line.

Vipassana is a fantastic meditation technique. Very scientific and more you do more you understand your self. It is clearly the law of nature how the body and mind function. It changed my life completely. ❤❤

I would probably go crazy because I just came back from schizophrenia after forcing myself to be back to the matrix.

I went too deep into my mind that I saw reality as fluid and there was no anchor like I was just in a dream and it feels like I died.

Maybe it only works for ordinary people and not for people who are by nature self-reflective.

Meditation is spending time alone with one's natural breathing

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Having grace of being able to sit for few 10 days course really a Life changing experience compared to other Meditation.
•guided, well structured overall
•Takes you in Real DEEP
•Transferrable to daily life
•Free accomodation, food and facilities. Private room with shower, bed, meditation seat etc
•like a vacation over a week but this can benefit you, your lineages and others around you
•Ground you in Equanimity, harmony and peace. Helps with ASCENSION!
I highly Recommend This Technique and method of going about the meditation overall. No phones, no talking, fully focused inward towards Innerstanding and Inner connection with highest truth.

Giving feedback about vipassana when he hasn’t practice it thoroughly is very silly… how would he know the full benefit of this practice when he has never embraced it, and then giving cheeky smiles with some of the comments is not a good character of a wise spiritual teacher…

Offcourse Annapana(breath) was also a teaching body teached alongside vipassana, but main technique was vipassana

I practice mindfulness going about my day as lve found it suits me best. Ive trained most of my life mainly because it makes me happy & focused. I use that focus while walking feeling every step while concentrating on breath. I scan my body while walking and the signals, feelings are becoming stronger the more l practice. I do 100s of push ups, squats etc every day 5 or 10 reps mindfully throughout the day because everyone can do them anywhere for a few seconds. Even at your desk you can do 100s of squats 5, 10 at a time throughout your day. Focus, concentrate & be in the moment, exercising will help tremendously for mind/body connection. Remember we are Hunter Gatherers built to move, we were quite listening to the noises of Nature for hunting and to not be hunted. Women use to gather walking, showing children what is good to eat & what isn't. Find what works for you and if it makes you smile well. We all get a Gift when born & only a few have ever opened it. Open your 🎁 Present & keep opening it for who wouldn't like to open Presence like Jesus, Buddha & Brother Lawrence did & still do. Oh, l also see myself asking to & then walking with Christ & Buddha 😂 Again if it brings a smile to your face do it, if you don't ask with love and graditute you don't get 💕🙏

We are responding to craving and aversion sensation. Vipassana will give a samyak drishti to life and how to live life . Bhavatu sabba mangalam

"Vipassana definitely takes your attention away from thinking so you connect with being" very well said

Can't live without, definitely need once a year a 10 days retreat to reset myself, and also doing Service, which is part of it ❤
I wish anyone would give Vipassana a chance, the World would be such a better place to live ☺️

Every thought you have is subtley or not so subtely connected to your sensations.Think about that.

I love Eckhart and I love Vipassana. Have done nine 10 day retreats and will shortly do a 20 day retreat.

Eckhart and his teachings truly began the journey into the interior around 15yrs ago.

Shortly after integrating Eckhart’s teachings I did my first 10 day retreat 15 yrs ago and have done one 10 day retreat every year.

If someone wants to truly experience the length and breadth of Presence and the inner body as well as of the pain-body, then do a 10 day sitting and follow the instructions methodically.

I promise you the far shore 🙏🏽

it's free btw... I bet elkhart's is not...

I read Eckhart books 15 years ago the first time. I've been reading them since then continuously. I deeply understand him and love his teaching! I was practicing his teaching, but not much success in my daily life. My presence is very very slowly improved. Because Eckhart does't give us method how to gain more presence in our daily life, last year went to a vipassana 10 day course. The course was very challenging but wort it! Since then I meditating 2 hour a day ,which is a self observation in strong awareness. My presence and self awareness in the daily life is dramatically improving. I am really grateful for this method and still love reading and hearing Eckhart

Eckhart Tolle,Teal Swan Gabor Mate and Brahma Kumari, one of the favorite humans who help as heal today for free(my opinion)❤

Vipassana literally saved my life. I am 43 years old and just now living. For me, it brought reality to life and acceptance of all that is. You have to experience it for yourself to know what you don’t know you need to know. Much love ❤

Eckhart looks amazing. He is well into his 70’s…..over 75……lifestyle and a clean mind helps.

I don’t think you will ever understand Vipassana meditation until you have experience it on a 10 day course. I have released more “ unknown” complexes with the 5 retreats than any form of therapy. It’s a tremendous thought out process of coming off craving and aversion.Of course the speaker hasn’t experienced this. It’s far from easy. Bringing up the pain body to “ burn” it off with awarness ( equanimity) takes guts and determination. The aim being to accept all sensations “ as they are” in that moment and not how you want them to be. From my experience mental work can only take you so far. You have to work with the body.

That was a genuinely honest response from Eckhart. Because I totally agree. When I was in the retreat I saw some glimpse of what eckhardt was teaching you. The difference is is on the emphasis of the meditation and doing it for a prolonged amount of time

Vipassana is sensation watching... and its for everyone ... if you are scared start with Anapana ❤

THE GREATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT practice I’ve ever done.

Writing with experience, not philosophically, Vipassana is not about being in present moment and looking at body sensations only. It is about reprogramming your subconsious mind with equanimity towards every sensation. Those who has practiced it will know it clearly. You remain equanimous towards every sensation whether it is good or bad . You are not allowed to crave or abort any sensation. Yes, Vipassana is not for everybody who are not ready to accept every darker side of themselves because in retreat every darker and shadow part of a being comes in light and it is really very uncomfortable but on the baseline it is for everybody.

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The Vipassana retreat was one of the great experiences on my spiritual journey . 10 day in silence sure helped me a lot after a busy life as a business owner it helped me turn inward. Thought me how to be with self. Highly recommended. 🙏

Vipassana meditation is the best thing that ever happened to me. It's not for everyone, but for me is absolutely the best .

You know nothing about Vipassana.

Please learn it before comment on it.

I saw Eckhart in person a few months ago. His presence is just wonderful. He could just sit on the stage for two hours in silence, and he would still impart the teaching. Perhaps even more.

This type of meditation helped me with my anxiety and pain tremendously when I was suffering with lower back pain for a year or so.

"Buddha’s way was Vipassana — vipassana means witnessing. And he found one of the greatest devices ever: the device of watching your breath, just watching your breath. Breathing is such a simple and natural phenomenon and it is there twenty-four hours a day. You need not make any effort. If you repeat a mantra then you will have to make an effort, you will have to force yourself. If you say, “Ram, Ram, Ram,” you will have to continuously strain yourself. And you are bound to forget many times. Moreover, the word ‘Ram’ is again something of the mind, and anything of the mind can never lead you beyond the mind.

Buddha discovered a totally different angle: just watch your breath — the breath coming in, the breath going out. There are four points to be watched. Sitting silently just start seeing the breath, feeling the breath. The breath going in is the first point. Then for a moment when the breath is in it stops — a very small moment it is — for a split second it stops; that is the second point to watch. Then the breath turns and goes out; this is the third point to watch. Then again when the breath is completely out, for a split second it stops; that is the fourth point to watch. Then the breath starts coming in again… this is the circle of breath.

If you can watch all these four points you will be surprised, amazed at the miracle of such a simple process — because mind is not involved. Watching is not a quality of the mind; watching is the quality of the soul, of consciousness; watching is not a mental process at all. When you watch, the mind stops, ceases to be. Yes, in the beginning many times you will forget and the mind will come in and start playing its old games. But whenever you remember that you had forgotten, there is no need to feel repentant, guilty — just go back to watching, again and again go back to watching your breath. Slowly, slowly, less and less mind interferes.

And when you can watch your breath for forty-eight minutes as a continuum, you will become enlightened. You will be surprised — just forty-eight minutes — because you will think that it is not very difficult… just forty-eight minutes! It is very difficult. Forty-eight seconds and you will have fallen victim to the mind many times. Try it with a watch in front of you; in the beginning you cannot be watchful for sixty seconds. In just sixty seconds, that is one minute, you will fall asleep many times, you will forget all about watching — the watch and the watching will both be forgotten. Some idea will take you far, far away; then suddenly you will realize… you will look at the watch and ten seconds have passed. For ten seconds you were not watching. But slowly, slowly — it is a knack; it is not a practice, it is a knack – slowly, slowly you imbibe it, because those few moments when you are watchful are of such exquisite beauty, of such tremendous joy, of such incredible ecstasy, that once you have tasted those few moments you would like to come back again and again — not for any other motive, just for the sheer joy of being there, present to the breath.

Remember, it is not the same process as is done in yoga. In yoga the process is called pranayam; it is a totally different process, in fact just the opposite of what Buddha calls vipassana. In pranayam you take deep breaths, you fill your chest with more and more air, more and more oxygen; then you empty your chest as totally as possible of all carbon dioxide. It is a physical exercise — good for the body but it has nothing to do with vipassana. In vipassana you are not to change the rhythm of your natural breath, you are not to take long, deep breaths, you are not to exhale in any way differently than you ordinarily do. Let it be absolutely normal and natural. Your whole consciousness has to be on one point; watching.

And if you can watch your breath then you can start watching other things too. Walking you can watch that you are walking, eating you can watch that you are eating, and ultimately, finally, you can watch that you are sleeping. The day you can watch that you are sleeping you are transported into another world. The body goes on sleeping and inside a light goes on burning brightly. Your watchfulness remains undisturbed, then twenty-four hours a day there is an undercurrent of watching. You go on doing things… for the outside world nothing has changed, but for you everything has changed."

Just like magic I love how ET's hair gets darker with age :))

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Por favor en dónde puedo encontrar material en español. No hablo inglés.
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Eckhart’s spiritual content is more based on intellectual knowledge whereas Vipassana is the ultimate truth experienced within your body. Both compliment each other but Eckhart seemed a bit competitive about it lol

I really like Eckhart, he's has a lot to offer. I wish though, he would include more emphasis on the balance between the now and the physical reality we live in. To ignore the form is to do so at one's own peril. If living in form were not important, we would most likely not do it at all. I'm not trying to be cynical, but Humans are facing an existential threat from themselves and have been for eons. I see that his teachings provide a gateway to this understanding, but it may simply be too late. I know it's not the end, but it's a shame to see such suffering and blind hate. It's almost as if physical existence was designed to self destruct. I hope I'm wrong.

Several years ago I had the honor and privilege to attend a 10 day vipassana meditation course in Australia. It completely shifted my entire being. It was tremendously challenging, but I was determined to know my inner self, and I found it incredibly life-changing. It is not for everyone, but it was definitely beneficial to me. I am grateful for them, but also grateful for the other teachers and countless other options for knowing oneself as consciousness🙏🏻💕🌻

Vipassana is way more than bringing your attention into your body. It's the practice of mindfulness with the goal of seeing clearly whatever arises and whatever ceases. So, it's about bodily sensations, thoughts, emotions, seeing, smelling and so on.