Praying to Eckart Tolle

by Satanus 7 Replies latest jw friends

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    'So, send me somebody', i said to eckart tolle. 'But he's not dead', i thought. 'Praying to a live person is unheard of.'

    ‘Can collector', i thought as i saw the guy slowly driving his bicycle w bags hanging off the handle bars, narrowly missing my own. Out past the fisherman, all the way to the point, invading the space of a young couple talking. ‘What right does he have passing by so close, disrespecting their space?’, i thought.

    He leaned his bike against the broken concrete of the disused pier. Then he walked right out to the end, and sitting down, he stuck his feet up in the air. 'Fucking weirdo', i thought. He sat up, did some shoulder stretches, front and back. Then he did some other stretches that i realized might be yoga. My opinion of him, as he calmly sat facing the setting sun changed quickly. A spirit of strength mixed w pureness and green nature god suddenly filled the area. I wondered was that yoga that he started with?

    He got up and got out some pins like for bowling, that jugglers use. He started out w simple stuff, then did standard three pin juggling for a couple of minutes. Ah, he's a street entertainer, who comes here to practice, i thought.

    He stowed the pins and walked back along the water’s edge, in my direction, contemplating the river. Curious about the yoga, i walked over and asked him? 'Yes, i do yoga, tai chi and qi gong', he said. He said that he swims in the st lawerence river from may to november. While he has an apartment downtown, he sleeps outside when the weather is nice. He has to be near nature.

    ‘Welfare?’ i ask. ‘Yes’, he says, ‘i haven't worked since i was 39. I worked as a security guard before that, then i quit. It's capitalist bs. I come here to look at the sunset, then i paint it. I'm perfectly happy. I'm actualized, being my real self. Those rich people aren't happy’, he says. ‘Actually, i know a couple who are. They are like builders, building businesses,’ i countered.

    This happened today. There is a bit more. If a couple are interested in it, and i feel like it, i'll add it.

    Btw, i don't believe in prayer.

    SS

  • Prisca
    Prisca

    Who's Eckart Tolle?

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    Prisca

    He wrote a book, 'the power of now'. He advocates living in the present, without worrying about the future or rehashing the past. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1577311523/qid=1057504084/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-3646791-7712713

    SS

  • nilfun
    nilfun

    Enjoyed reading this..hope you feel like adding more..

  • Xena
    Xena

    interesting....more please.

  • GentlyFeral
    GentlyFeral

    Sounds rather like my son, actually. Do finish the story, SaintSatan.

    GentlyFeral

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    As we talked a group made up of two cute girls and 4 guys appeared. One of the guys asks him ‘are you russian?’ ‘No,’ he says, ‘I’m from vancouver.’ But he speaks russian, and he’s was born in checkoslovakia. The guy says they are from cirque du soliel. They talk circus stuff for a while. I gather that they saw him juggling. ‘From where did they come’, he asked me, after they left. ‘I don’t know’, I said. ‘Course, it was getting dark.

    'I’m fifty,' he said, ‘how old are you?’ ‘About that’, I answered. I turned 50 two months ago. I told him that I painted houses for a living. ‘Quit tomorrow, my [some relative] who was a painter died of cancer at 60. Start being your real self,’ he replied.

    'Yes, but what if a person has a lot of shit in their background, like abuse from parents?’ I asked. ‘You have to let go of your personal history,’ he said. ‘Just live in the present’ (That's tolle's gospel).

    The life he has been living, has the same basic ideal that i had been considering during the last year or two. For instance, i have been thinking of going back to the province of my youth to camp out on the open prairie for a while. My family suddenly moved away from saskatchewan when i was about 5 yrs.

    Three types of exercises he emphasized were: gestalt – his version consisting of being under the sky for a full 24 hour period, making it a trip where the earth does one complete revolution, bringing one back to where one started.

    Zen – being at one w oneself (the real meaning of integrity) and w one's environment.

    I forgot the other point.

    I said that I was getting cold and had to leave. We finally introduced ourselves, shook hands, and i made my way home.

    SS

  • Xena
    Xena

    more...........

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