Eckhart Tolle's teachings about life's pain and sorrow

Questioner: “Nobody’s life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn’t it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?”

Eckhart Tolle: ““The greater part of human suffering is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. The suffering that you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the suffering depends upon the degree of resistance to the present moment, which in turn depends upon how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind constantly seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. The more you are identified with your mind, the more will you suffer. The more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more will you be free of pain, suffering and the egoistic mind.

Questioner: I can see the truth of what you are saying, but I still think that we must have a purpose on our life's journey; otherwise we just drift, and purpose means future, doesn't it? How to reconcile that with living in the present?

Eckhart Tolle:

"When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don't forget: the only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is. Your life's journey has an outer and an inner purpose. The outer purpose is to arrive at your goal or destination, to accomplish what you set out to do, to achieve this or that which of course implies future. But if your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey's inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how you do what you do. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment. Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. As you become more deeply aware of this one step, you realize that it already contains within itself all the other steps as well as the destination. This one step becomes transformed into an expression of great beauty and quality. It will have taken you into Being, and the primordial power of Being will flow through it. This is both the purpose and the fulfillment of your inner journey, the journey into yourself."

This is exactly what you are doing, Supreetha, and what I also aspire towards, when we, as you so beautifully put it…

“Keep doing Sadhana even while doing our daily work.... keep thinking of Him the Supreme.. every breath ....

As I breathe Him in and out this day, I will picture you doing the same, and we will be one in Him.

Hare Krishna!

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