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Transforming Our Suffering into Awakening

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Socratic Dialogue of Socrates

Socrates started his socratic dialogues with just not knowing, and then he begins to ask questions. He does not start with already accumulated knowledge. So it starts from the state of pure awareness. In te pure awareness, of course, you don't know anything when your mind stops. For example, now if i stop speaking, now you're still here too. We can do it together. I stop speaking for a few seconds. Do you need to fill that space between me stopping to speak and starting to speak again? Or are you able to simply be present in that space? Don't suppress thought. That doesn't work. You can't hold your breath and say, i

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