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Right Action Follows Awakened Consciousness
Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings
Self-transcendence through freedom from thinking
Overcoming the tendency to think less and consequently feeling happier is not genuine awakening. True awakening involves transcending the self by moving upward to a state of relaxed alertness and presence. True freedom from thinking is the ability to rise above thinking rather than falling back into unconsciousness.
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However, it is not a direction of true awakening, because the way I put it, you are falling below the thinking level. You think less and less, and that's why you feel happier. You feel, perhaps, feel a little bit more your sense of being in the background a little bit. But you are moving in the direction of back to sleep, to unconsciousness. Instead of rising, the above thinking, to a state of relaxed alertness, which is presence. So, freedom from thinking is self-transcendence. It doesn't mean you don't think anymore, but you are no longer trapped in
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