Eckhart Tolle points to the dimension beyond body, thought and emotion as the most-overlooked aspect of what a person is. ' — as the very mechanism that keeps people bound to the world of problems.
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Most humans overlook the most important aspect of who or what they are beyond the body, beyond the thinking mind, beyond the flux of emotions. Underneath all that there's a You are not just your thoughts and feelings or emotions or the physical body. That's normally what what constitutes you. When people think of themselves, they refer to their physical body. And then there's a psychological entity, stream of thinking, and then their emotions that accompany the stream of thinking. Those three make up the person. But they're only forms that consciousness has incarnated into briefly in this play of forms. And that most humans overlook, the most important aspect of who or what they are. Beyond the body, beyond the thinking mind, beyond the flux of emotions. Underneath all that there is a presence and you can only sense it when for a moment the your thinking subsides for example now because there's nothing to think about. There's nothing to work out. You just listen to the words and perhaps something in you recognizes the truth to which these words point beyond thought. A direct immediate realization that there is something deeper, more infinitely more essential in you than the physical body, thoughts and emotions. or they're not separate. They're kind of the surface of you. Beyond the surface, there is what I sometimes call your essence identity. The mind becomes still. You notice the moment you notice that there is a stillness in you. For example, this is an opportunity here and now I'm kind of this is a kind of transmission not only through words but also through certain emanation. And you might say, what do you mean emanation? There's just a screen there. Consciousness is not dependent on space and time. So there isn't there can be an emanation nothing to do with the the fact that you are somewhere else on the planet. So you realize if only briefly that there's a stillness in you at this is easy to overlook because the mind says so what it says I've got other problems to think about. My life is full of them. What still is going to do for me? How is that going to improve my life? Says the mind, the thinking mind, the ego. And of course, that's precisely it. It denies the power of that. But that is precisely what liberates you from the world of problems.