http://tollemadepractical.com Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:20:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The trouble with telling us just to be aware / good / positive / happy is that it ignores the fact that often we need to first learn to become aware / good / positive / happy. Tolle and the traditional meditation schools provide us with many wonderful things. But unfortunately, ... http://tollemadepractical.com/uncategorized/2008/12/becoming-more-aware/ J. Krishnamurti, whom Tolle has claimed as a major influence, insisted one should “question everything”. Of course, this would definitely be asking too much, for most people. Krishnamurti’s idea was that after you have “subtracted” everything your questioning reveals to be false, what remains must be “the truth”. Sounds like ... http://tollemadepractical.com/tolle-made-easy/2008/12/walking-your-talk/ I always prefer to concentrate mostly just on the practical implications of what a spiritual teacher is saying. At the end of the day that's the essence, as far as I am concerned. With that very much in mind, I'm now offering a free 28-page ebook, titled The Keys To What Tolle ... http://tollemadepractical.com/tolle-made-easy/2008/12/summarising-the-basics-of-what-tolle-teaches/  “Are you putting up with whatever is depressing your joy of life because you’re  afraid or scared of change? If the answer is yes, you are not being true. You are not being true to yourself.”  --  Barry Long In Eckhart Tolle’s first major book, The Power Of Now, he writes ... http://tollemadepractical.com/tolle-made-easy/2008/12/observing-yourself/ If you have found any of Eckhart Tolle’s books, CDs, videos or appearances helpful, that can only be because he spoke to a yearning you had inside you. That yearning is to have a deeper experience, to be more fully yourself, in the truest possible way, in your life. You ... http://tollemadepractical.com/whats-missing-in-tolle/2008/12/eckhart-tolle-is-pain-nothing-more-than-a-lack-of-awareness/ Many people have discovered how to experience greater inner peace as a result of reading one or more of Eckhart Tolle’s books. Yes, that truly is wonderful, for all those people, and for their friends and family. Here I want to describe what in all my observation is usually the ... http://tollemadepractical.com/eckhart-tolle/2008/11/eckhart-tolle-what%e2%80%99s-the-next-step/ Eckhart Tolle claims that the reality of who we are is our “pure” consciousness, and that everything else that we consider to be “ourselves” is an illusion. I certainly agree that in our recent Western culture we have ignored the necessity to make consciousness one of the central things in our ... http://tollemadepractical.com/whats-missing-in-tolle/2008/11/ideas-versus-thoughts-and-eckhart-tolle/ In some parts of Eckhart Tolle’s writings he makes it clear he doesn’t see thinking or thoughts as a problem in themselves. It’s just that in most people’s lives the analytical or word-creating part of the mind has turned into The Sorcerer’s Apprentice gone gangbusters. But Tolle does little to ... http://tollemadepractical.com/tolle-made-easy/2008/11/myth-%e2%80%9ctolle-claims-that-thinking-is-necessarily-bad%e2%80%9d/ In my experience, most people certainly do find Tolle confusing, at least on some important questions. But whether you do or not, my new ebook is deigned to help you develop or enrich your spiritual practice and your understanding. I'm happy to announce it's now available. If you're interested, click here: ... http://tollemadepractical.com/uncategorized/2008/11/do-you-ever-find-tolle-confusing/ Before you begin to do any exercises or use any method for your development, you need to be 100% ready and willing to change. You see, in The Power of Now, Tolle does mention that if you are going to stay in the Now, then that can involve experiencing a ... http://tollemadepractical.com/peters-methods/2008/11/the-best-way-to-get-started-with-peters-methods/