Eckhart Tolle, May the Mind be the Servant of Awareness, Omega Retreat, October 14 – 18, 2002.  Tape 6, Side B.

The following is Eckhart's response to a question about a particular problem a person was having.  She had looked into a dog’s eyes and the problem went away for a Now-moment, and she was asking what had happened.  Eckhart's response, and resolution, would apply to any problem a person, or mind, could have.  Notation in brackets [ ] is implied.

 In my understanding, this excerpt is valuable because Eckhart is teaching that thought forms (i.e. thoughts) have a vibrational frequency, which is the energy that is LIFE.   In this teaching, LIFE  is energy, not the thoughts, feelings, emotions, and problems (i.e. duality) that we usually think of as LIFE.  The healing is to be with the energetic vibration (energy), and just accept the form (i.e. problem) as it is. This teaches that being with the energy vibration of the problem is more powerful that trying to use positive thinking, or mind solutions, to try to solve it.  

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Excerpt - Tolle:  The danger is that the mind will make IT [anything we think of as a problem] into a “problem of mine”, and try to solve it as a problem, and then it becomes a dilemma.  [The egoic mind thinks] “I need to get rid of this.”  And it could take years, or it may never happen, if that is the case.  So,  IT is here [i.e., the problem is here and that’s the reality in this moment].

When the dog was teaching you, the dog taught -- because that’s how dogs live -- be completely with 'what is.'  So, for a moment you were completely with the suchness of that.  Including that.  And that was a freeing, was liberating, to see that there is no problem.  [That is, when you're with a problem, including the problem, there is no problem].

Don’t give IT [any of life's problems] the heaviness that the mind will endow it with, and make it into something that needs to be solved.  Say, “Yes” to it.  It is appearing here, at this moment.  Make friends with it.  Whatever comes into the space of Now, make friends with it.  Because it is.

That is the most powerful healer, because it is obviously an energy field there.  So it is LIFE.  It has a particular form.  That form may have something to do with certain mind forms from your past [e.g. childhood experiences, but that’s not really an issue that needs to be dealt with, or even can be dealt with, in the Now.]. 

The form is temporary, LIFE is eternal.  It has a particular vibrational frequency, which is part of its form, and that has something to do with certain thought forms  [i.e. all thought forms have a vibrational frequency, a.k.a. energy.].  Partly personal but ultimately all collective, from the human collective mind that created it.  And there’s not really, there’s not a personal fault of yours at all, that that became created.  It’s a temporary form [the problem], and it’s alive [energy].  And it is, as it is at this moment.

So, the key to transformation:  To make friends with this moment.  What form it takes doesn’t matter.  Say yes to it, allow it, be with IT [i.e., be with the frequency vibration of the energy that underlies any thought form in the moment].  

“Oh.”

End.