- Manifestation and conscious creation are important, but not of primary importance
- Primary importance lies in becoming conscious of our connectedness with a deeper realm of being
- Challenges in life push us towards awakening and transcendence
- The realization of the importance of being is the foundation for any kind of manifestation
- The analogy of skimmed milk and cream is used to illustrate the formless nature of being
- It is important to verify and experience the concept of "I am" in our own experience

Eckhart Tolle offers a thought-provoking perspective on the essence of manifestation in this insightful video. He discusses how challenges, whether personal or collective, that appear as obstacles are actually essential catalysts for spiritual awakening. Eckhart Tolle explains that these challenges push individuals towards transcendence and are necessary for recognizing the depth of one's being. Using an analogy comparing the superficial aspects of life to skimmed milk and the depth of being to cream,  Eckhart Tolle illustrates how everything in the physical realm arises from this formless, foundational beingness.

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Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. With his international bestsellers, The Power of Now and A New Earth—translated into more than 50 languages—he has introduced millions to the joy and freedom of living life in the present moment. The New York Times has described him as “the most popular spiritual author in the United States,” and in 2011, Watkins Review (now Watkins Mind Body Spirit) named him “the most spiritually influential person in the world.”

Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.

Manifestation, creating things consciously is important.

Consciously is important, but It's not of primary importance.

It is of secondary importance, important enough.

But there's something that's of primary importance.

And that is to become conscious of your connectedness with now whatever term you want to use to point to it, your connectedness with, your oneness with that which transcends all manifestation, that which transcends the world of physical forms, also transcends the world of mental forms, emotional forms.

To connect with that, connect implies a duality.

So it's not really connect, it's to become aware of your oneness with a deeper realm of being.

And here, this is a good word, being to become aware of your essential beingness, your essential identity as the I am, which is nothing to do with any mental concept.

Mental concepts are also in the realm of forms, of the manifested realm, or sometimes in philosophy it's called the phenomenal realm.

The realm of phenomena, things happen, they arise, they pass away, and then interesting things continuously arise in your personal life and collectively.

Just listen to the news tonight and you see how infinitely creative the universe is in creating extremely challenging problems and situations.

The challenges ultimately seem to be a great obstacle in one's life, whether they are of a personal kind or collective kind, and sometimes the 2 cannot be separated.

They often seem to be the greatest obstacle, but as you come to deeper realizations, you begin to See that the challenges are actually a necessary part of finding the path to transcendence.

They force you, eventually they force you to awaken.

The most important thing is the realization of the importance of being, which is also the foundation for any kind of manifestation you want to do.

It came to me years ago when I was in meditation.

I was just in a space of thoughtless awareness for quite a while.

Just sense the beingness of myself, which is 1 with the being of the universe.

And then I opened my eyes and I started becoming aware of sense perceptions again.

And it very clearly so, I was actually sitting in a park in London many years ago.

And then I looked around, I saw the trees and people in there, the grass and the sky.

It felt like whatever I was perceiving through the senses was a skimmed milk.

And what I had just come out of and realized was the cream.

That is being, everything arises out of the being.

And then you realize whatever you perceive with your senses, the phenomenal realm is the skimmed milk.

It's 1 with, of course, skimmed milk is not separate from the cream, it's just thin.

There's other things in it, more water, but let's not take this too far, this analogy.

So when you realize the I am, and I'm not just, hopefully not just talking about it, because as I'm pointing to it, it may be possible for you to verify in your own experience, if only a little bit, what verify what it is that I'm pointing to so that it doesn't remain a mere concept.


Speaker 0: Manifestation, creating things consciously is important. Consciously is important, but It's not of primary importance. It is of secondary importance, important enough. But there's something that's of primary importance. And that is to become conscious of your connectedness with now whatever term you want to use to point to it, your connectedness with, your oneness with that which transcends all manifestation, that which transcends the world of physical forms, also transcends the world of mental forms, emotional forms.

It transcends your identity as a person. To connect with that, connect implies a duality. So it's not really connect, it's to become aware of your oneness with a deeper realm of being. And here, this is a good word, being to become aware of your essential beingness, your essential identity as the I am, which is nothing to do with any mental concept. Mental concepts are also in the realm of forms, of the manifested realm, or sometimes in philosophy it's called the phenomenal realm.

The realm of phenomena, things happen, they arise, they pass away, and then interesting things continuously arise in your personal life and collectively. There's infinite creativity at work. Just listen to the news tonight and you see how infinitely creative the universe is in creating extremely challenging problems and situations. The challenges ultimately seem to be a great obstacle in one's life, whether they are of a personal kind or collective kind, and sometimes the 2 cannot be separated. They often seem to be the greatest obstacle, but as you come to deeper realizations, you begin to See that the challenges are actually a necessary part of finding the path to transcendence.

The challenges push you into awakening. They force you, eventually they force you to awaken. So it's all fine. The most important thing is the realization of the importance of being, which is also the foundation for any kind of manifestation you want to do. I sometimes use this weird analogy.

It came to me years ago when I was in meditation. I was just in a space of thoughtless awareness for quite a while. Just sense the beingness of myself, which is 1 with the being of the universe. And then I opened my eyes and I started becoming aware of sense perceptions again. And it very clearly so, I was actually sitting in a park in London many years ago.

And then I looked around, I saw the trees and people in there, the grass and the sky. And Then this weird analogy came to me. It felt like whatever I was perceiving through the senses was a skimmed milk. And what I had just come out of and realized was the cream. That is being, everything arises out of the being.

The being gives rise to forms. The being itself is formless. And so become aware of the cream. And then you realize whatever you perceive with your senses, the phenomenal realm is the skimmed milk. It's 1 with, of course, skimmed milk is not separate from the cream, it's just thin.

It's differentiated kind of. There's other things in it, more water, but let's not take this too far, this analogy. So when you realize the I am, and I'm not just, hopefully not just talking about it, because as I'm pointing to it, it may be possible for you to verify in your own experience, if only a little bit, what verify what it is that I'm pointing to so that it doesn't remain a mere concept.

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