• Home
  • About
  • The Minotaur Myth

  • Zen Fits
  • It’s Martini Time
  • Reflections on Eckhart Tolle
  • Buddhas in your Landfill
You are here: Home / Reflections on Eckhart Tolle / Don’t add any paint

Don’t add any paint

April 11, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.” Ekchart Tolle (from The Power of Now)
________________
 
This is interesting, the idea that the situation has no meaning, that it is “neutral.” In Buddhist terms, that means the situation is empty of meaning. Form is empty. Our mind paints situations with meaning with the brush of Thought. Our paint bucket is our collective and personal past, the Bucket of the Known. The Situation Canvas is empty. We add the meaning, live in the meaning, and reacts to the colors we have added. No wonder we paint ourselves into corners.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Reflections on Eckhart Tolle

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Ed is a Zen Writer and story teller who finds insights in the truth of his life in everyday mind and events. Learn more

Live without future

Search

Connect to my Facebook Pages

Archives

Top Posts & Pages

  • God is Androgynous
  • What is Papancha?
  • The Sword of Discernment
  • Whore and Monk
  • Lost in Desert
  • Turn your suffering into gold
  • Rig for silent running (my life on a diesel submarine)
  • Breaking the Leak Cycle
  • About
  • THE ROBOT ARMY

Subscribe to My Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 65 other subscribers

Awaken Insight Meditation

AIM is a website where I share my Dharma Insights in my everyday mind. My daily experiences are metaphors that point to the Truth that is One. Paths are many, but the Dharma is One. I invite you to walk with me on my journey. I also invite you to enter into creative dialogue with the post, for then we push it forward and get some traction in our life.

The Minotaur Myth

Copyright © 2021 · Lifestyle Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in