“At this moment, this is what you feel.” I said. Tears were rolling down her face, her whole body was shaking. Reluctantly, however, she did what I asked her to do. She said she had come expecting me to show her the way out of her unhappiness, not into it. I directed the focus of her attention to what she was feeling inside her body and asked her to sense the emotion directly, instead of through the filter of her unhappy thoughts, her unhappy story.

She was ready to awaken, and this is why she had come.

At some level, however, she must have realized that her pain originated within herself, that she was a burden to herself. In other words, she lived with the burden of a deeply unhappy self. She could not yet see that she was feeding the pain-body with her thoughts. She was not yet able to see the link between the emotional pain and her thoughts, being completely identified with both. Her pain-body had become the filter through which she viewed her life situation. I saw quickly that her pain was not caused by her present life circumstances but by an extraordinarily heavy pain-body. As a child she had been abused by a physically violent father. She said she felt lonely and unfulfilled. She started telling me her story, and within one second her smile changed into a grimace of pain. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite and superficial smile. I find more traditional mindfulness meditation to be more meaningful that Tolle's complex descriptions of the Now, as he calls it.“A woman in her thirties came to see me. I am not saying this to detract from Tolle as a spiritual leader, but his experience, whether an aneurysm or actual enlightenment of some kind was a spontaneous experience, and hardly gives credibility to the path to enlightenment he describes in this book. Some who have had certain kinds of brain aneurysms describe very much the same kind of experience Tolle describes after his enlightenment experience. This book is the result of what Tolle's personal enlightenment experience, which sound sort of like he had some sort of brain injury, possibly an undiagnosed aneurysm. In fact, the central points that Tolle makes are much better said by some writers who stick to a more focused and coherent view of what is often referred to as mindfulness. Some part of this are good, much of it is a bit of a mishmash of ideas pulled from various sources, heavy on Buddhism.

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