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A New Earth: Role-Playing: The Many Faces of the Ego (Chapter 4)

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Being One With What You're Doing

The main focus of your attention is on the actual doing now. The energy is not diverted from what you are doing now through mental dysfunction because you're wanting to get there. There was a Zen master who was watching somebody in a competition and a man was trying very hard to win this competition but he just couldn't make it. He said his need to win drains him of power. And so his need to winning is some future moment where he's going to be fulfilled. So the now where all power resides, this power that resides in the now cannot flow then into what you're doing.

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