• 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 / Drop the flashlight

Drop the flashlight

January 12, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

“One of the most powerful spiritual practices is to meditate deeply on the. mortality of physical forms, including your own. The physical form dissolves and is no more. Then all thoughts also die. Yet you are still there—the divine presence that you are. Radiant, fully awake.” Eckhart Tolle

______________________

Lets try to bring this down to everyday mind. Meditating on the mortality of form means to me just sitting and being aware of mental forms rising and dissolving in the space of awareness. All form is an IT, either the IT thought or the IT foot. Whatever I’m conscious of is some kind of IT. Like a flashlight I can direct my consciousness to look at one IT after another. Here’s a toe, here’s a finger, here’s a breath, here’s an itch.

Then I ask, What am I looking for with this flashlight? And who is looking at ITS? Can I put the flashlight down? Who is there then? Is the flashlight just focused awareness, focused light? Does the flashlight through its looking here and there create time? Create the Known? Whatever IT I see is the known. What am I looking for? Am I looking for me? Do I want to be known? To be known I must become an IT, and then I’ll die, as all ITS die.

So I rise and fall in the mist of the mind with a tiny flashlight looking for the light.

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 Tagged With: 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Your email address will not be published.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

  • The Minotaur Myth
  • Pride and Joy
  • Scratches on the Wall
  • The Silent Scream of FB Jail
  • The Search for Noah
  • The Scent of Baba Muktananda
  • God is Androgynous

Subscribe to My Blog via Email

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

Join 68 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 © 2022 · Lifestyle Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in