ECKHART TOLLE
A NEW EARTH
Awakening to
Your Life's Purpose
這本書是幫助認知自己，剖析外界的非宗教心理學範疇的書籍，語氣平和，由淺入深，就像是一種觸及靈魂的談心，也是一本我看了很多遍的書。
下麵是目錄和節選：
We cannot really honor things if we use them as a means to self-enhancement,
that is to say, if we try to find ourselves through them. This is exactly what the ego does. Ego identification with things creates attachment to things, obsession with things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. Some economists are so attached to the notion of growth that they can’t let go of that word, so they refer to recession as a time of “negative growth.”
In the early stages of many so called romantic relationships, role playing
is quite common in order to attract and keep whoever is perceived by
the ego as the one who is going to “make me happy, make me feel special,
and fulfill all my needs.” “I'll play who you want me to be, and you'll play
who I want you to be.” That's the unspoken and unconscious agreement.
However, role playing is hard work, and so those roles cannot be sustained
indefinitely, especially once you start living together. When those roles slip,
what do you see? Unfortunately, in most cases, not yet the true essence of
that being, but that which covers up the true essence: the raw ego divested of
its roles, with its pain body, and its thwarted wanting which now turns into
anger, most likely directed at the spouse or partner for having failed to
remove the underlying fear and sense of lack that is an intrinsic part of the
egoic sense of self. What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and
intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to
another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do
with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever. The Spanish language
is the most honest in regard to conventional notions of love: Te quiero means
“I want you” as well as “I love you.” The other expression for “I love you,” te
amo, which does not have this ambiguity, is rarely used – perhaps because
true love is just as rare.
In the human dimension, you are unquestionably superior to your
child. You are bigger, stronger, know more, can do more. If that dimension is
all you know, you will feel superior to your child, if only unconsciously. And
you will make your child feel inferior, if only unconsciously. There is no
equality between you and your child because there is only form in your
relationship, and in form, you are of course not equal. You may love your
child, but your live will be human only, that is to say, conditional, possessive,
intermittent. Only beyond form, in Being, are you equal, and only When you
find the formless dimension in yourself can there be true love in that
relationship. The Presence that you are, the timeless I Am, recognizes itself
in another, and the other, the child in this case, feels loved, that is to say,
recognized.
To love is to recognize yourself in another. The other's “otherness”
then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the
realm of form. The longing for love that is in every child is the longing to be
recognized, not on the level of form, but on the level of Being. If parents
honor only the human dimension of the child but neglect Being, the child
will sense that the relationship is unfulfilled, that something absolutely vital
is missing, and there will be a buildup of pain in the child and sometimes
unconscious resentment toward the parents. “Why don't you recognize me?”
This is what the pain or resentment seems to be saying.
It may be shocking when you realize for the first time that there is
something within you that periodically seeks emotional negativity, seeks
unhappiness. You need even more awareness to see it in yourself than to
recognize it in another person. Once the unhappiness has taken you over, not
only do you not want an end to it, but you want to make others just as
miserable as you are in order to feed on their negative emotional reactions.
In most people, the painbody has a dormant and an active stage.
When it is dormant, you easily forget that you carry a heavy dark cloud or a dormant volcano inside you,
depending on the energy field of your particular painbody. How long it remains dormant varies from person to person: A few
weeks is the most common, but it can be a few days or months. In rare cases
the painbody can lie in hibernation for years before it gets triggered by some
event.
The pain body needs your unconsciousness. It cannot tolerate the light of Presence.
CONTENTS
Chapter One
The Flowering of Human Consciousness – 6
Evocation..................................................................................................6
The Purpose of This Book........................................................................8
Our Inherited Dysfunction........................................................................10
The Arising New consciousness..............................................................12
Spirituality and Religion..........................................................................14
The Urgency of Transformation...............................................................16
A New Heaven and a new Earth...............................................................18
Chapter Two
Ego: The Current State of Humanity – 19
The Illusory Self......................................................................................20
The Voice in the Head.............................................................................22
Content and Structure of the Ego.............................................................24
Identification with Things........................................................................25
The Lost Ring...........................................................................................26
The Illusion of Ownership........................................................................29
Wanting: The Need for More....................................................................31
Identification with the Body.....................................................................33
Feeling the Inner Body.............................................................................34
Forgetfulness of Being.............................................................................35
From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight...............................................36
The Peace that Passes All Understanding................................................37
Chapter Three
The Core of Ego – 39
Complaining and Resentment..................................................................40
Reactivity and Grievances.......................................................................42
Being Right, Making Wrong....................................................................43
In Defense of an Illusion..........................................................................44
Truth: Relative or Absolute?....................................................................45
The Ego Is Not Personal..........................................................................46
War Is a Mindset.....................................................................................
48
Do You Want Peace or Drama? ...............................................................49
Beyond Ego: Your True Identity .............................................................50
All Structures are Unstable.......................................................................51
The Ego's Need to Feel Superior..............................................................52
Ego and Fame...........................................................................................52
Chapter Four
RolePlaying:
The Many Faces of the Ego 54
Villain, Victim, Lover...............................................................................55
Letting Go of SelfDefinitions..................................................................
56
Preestablished
Roles................................................................................57
Temporary Roles.......................................................................................58
The Monk with Sweaty Palms..................................................................59
Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness..................................................59
Parenthood: Role or Function? ................................................................60
Conscious Suffering.................................................................................63
Conscious Parenting.................................................................................64
Recognizing Your Child...........................................................................65
Giving Up Roleplaying............................................................................
66
The Pathological Ego................................................................................68
The Background Unhappiness...................................................................70
The Secret of Happiness............................................................................71
Pathological Forms of Ego........................................................................73
Work – with and Without Ego...................................................................75
The Ego in Illness......................................................................................77
The Collective Ego....................................................................................77
Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality.......................................................79
Chapter Five
The PainBody
80
The Birth of Emotion.................................................................................81
Emotions and the Ego................................................................................83
The Duck with a Human Mind..................................................................85
Carrying the Past.......................................................................................85
Individual and Collective...........................................................................87
How the PainBody
Renews Itself.............................................................89
How the Painbody
Feeds on Your Thoughts............................................90
How the painBody
Feeds on Drama.........................................................91
Dense Painbodies......................................................................................
93
Entertainment, the Media, and the PainBody...........................................
94
The Collective Female Painbody..............................................................
95
National and Racial Painbodies................................................................
97
Chapter Six
Breaking Free 99
Presence.....................................................................................................100
The Return of the PainBody.....................................................................
102
The Painbody
in Children.........................................................................103
Unhappiness...............................................................................................105
Breaking Identification with the Painbody...............................................
106
“Triggers”...................................................................................................108
The PainBody
as an Awakener..................................................................110
Breaking Free of the PainBody.................................................................
112
Chapter Seven
Finding Who You Truly Are 113
Who you Think you are..............................................................................114
Abundance..................................................................................................116
Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself.......................................117
Chaos and Higher Order.............................................................................118
Good and Bad.............................................................................................119
Not Minding What Happens.......................................................................120
Is That So?..................................................................................................121
The Ego and the Present Moment .............................................................122
The Paradox of Time...................................................................................124
Eliminating Time.........................................................................................125
The Dreamer and the Dream.......................................................................127
Going Beyond Limitation...........................................................................128
The Joy of Being.........................................................................................130
Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego......................................................130
As Without, So Within................................................................................132
Chapter Eight
The Discovery of Inner Space 135
Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness.......................................137
Falling Below and Rising Above Thought.................................................138
Television...................................................................................................139
Recognizing Inner Space...........................................................................141
Can You Hear the Mountain Stream? .......................................................143
Right Action..............................................................................................144
Perceiving Without Naming......................................................................144
Who Is the Experiencer? ..........................................................................146
The Breath.................................................................................................147
Addictions..................................................................................................149
Inner Body Awareness...............................................................................150
Inner and Outer Space................................................................................151
Noticing the Gaps.......................................................................................153
Lose yourself to Find Yourself....................................................................153
Stillness.......................................................................................................154
Chapter Nine
Your Inner Purpose 155
Awakening..................................................................................................156
A Dialogue on Inner Purpose.....................................................................158
Chapter Ten
A New Earth 167
A Brief History of Your Life......................................................................169
Awakening and the Return Movement.......................................................170
Awakening and the Outgoing Movement...................................................172
Consciousness............................................................................................174
Awakened Doing........................................................................................175
The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing................................................176
Acceptance.................................................................................................177
Enjoyment..................................................................................................177
Enthusiasm.................................................................................................180
The Frequencyholders..............................................................................
183
The New Earth Is No Utopia.....................................................................184
Notes...........................................................................................................186
About the Author........................................................................................189
A NEW EARTH
Awakening to
Your Life's Purpose
這本書是幫助認知自己，剖析外界的非宗教心理學範疇的書籍，語氣平和，由淺入深，就像是一種觸及靈魂的談心，也是一本我看了很多遍的書。
下麵是目錄和節選：
We cannot really honor things if we use them as a means to self-enhancement,
that is to say, if we try to find ourselves through them. This is exactly what the ego does. Ego identification with things creates attachment to things, obsession with things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. Some economists are so attached to the notion of growth that they can’t let go of that word, so they refer to recession as a time of “negative growth.”
In the early stages of many so called romantic relationships, role playing
is quite common in order to attract and keep whoever is perceived by
the ego as the one who is going to “make me happy, make me feel special,
and fulfill all my needs.” “I'll play who you want me to be, and you'll play
who I want you to be.” That's the unspoken and unconscious agreement.
However, role playing is hard work, and so those roles cannot be sustained
indefinitely, especially once you start living together. When those roles slip,
what do you see? Unfortunately, in most cases, not yet the true essence of
that being, but that which covers up the true essence: the raw ego divested of
its roles, with its pain body, and its thwarted wanting which now turns into
anger, most likely directed at the spouse or partner for having failed to
remove the underlying fear and sense of lack that is an intrinsic part of the
egoic sense of self. What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and
intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to
another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do
with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever. The Spanish language
is the most honest in regard to conventional notions of love: Te quiero means
“I want you” as well as “I love you.” The other expression for “I love you,” te
amo, which does not have this ambiguity, is rarely used – perhaps because
true love is just as rare.
In the human dimension, you are unquestionably superior to your
child. You are bigger, stronger, know more, can do more. If that dimension is
all you know, you will feel superior to your child, if only unconsciously. And
you will make your child feel inferior, if only unconsciously. There is no
equality between you and your child because there is only form in your
relationship, and in form, you are of course not equal. You may love your
child, but your live will be human only, that is to say, conditional, possessive,
intermittent. Only beyond form, in Being, are you equal, and only When you
find the formless dimension in yourself can there be true love in that
relationship. The Presence that you are, the timeless I Am, recognizes itself
in another, and the other, the child in this case, feels loved, that is to say,
recognized.
To love is to recognize yourself in another. The other's “otherness”
then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the
realm of form. The longing for love that is in every child is the longing to be
recognized, not on the level of form, but on the level of Being. If parents
honor only the human dimension of the child but neglect Being, the child
will sense that the relationship is unfulfilled, that something absolutely vital
is missing, and there will be a buildup of pain in the child and sometimes
unconscious resentment toward the parents. “Why don't you recognize me?”
This is what the pain or resentment seems to be saying.
It may be shocking when you realize for the first time that there is
something within you that periodically seeks emotional negativity, seeks
unhappiness. You need even more awareness to see it in yourself than to
recognize it in another person. Once the unhappiness has taken you over, not
only do you not want an end to it, but you want to make others just as
miserable as you are in order to feed on their negative emotional reactions.
In most people, the painbody has a dormant and an active stage.
When it is dormant, you easily forget that you carry a heavy dark cloud or a dormant volcano inside you,
depending on the energy field of your particular painbody. How long it remains dormant varies from person to person: A few
weeks is the most common, but it can be a few days or months. In rare cases
the painbody can lie in hibernation for years before it gets triggered by some
event.
The pain body needs your unconsciousness. It cannot tolerate the light of Presence.
CONTENTS
Chapter One
The Flowering of Human Consciousness – 6
Evocation..................................................................................................6
The Purpose of This Book........................................................................8
Our Inherited Dysfunction........................................................................10
The Arising New consciousness..............................................................12
Spirituality and Religion..........................................................................14
The Urgency of Transformation...............................................................16
A New Heaven and a new Earth...............................................................18
Chapter Two
Ego: The Current State of Humanity – 19
The Illusory Self......................................................................................20
The Voice in the Head.............................................................................22
Content and Structure of the Ego.............................................................24
Identification with Things........................................................................25
The Lost Ring...........................................................................................26
The Illusion of Ownership........................................................................29
Wanting: The Need for More....................................................................31
Identification with the Body.....................................................................33
Feeling the Inner Body.............................................................................34
Forgetfulness of Being.............................................................................35
From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight...............................................36
The Peace that Passes All Understanding................................................37
Chapter Three
The Core of Ego – 39
Complaining and Resentment..................................................................40
Reactivity and Grievances.......................................................................42
Being Right, Making Wrong....................................................................43
In Defense of an Illusion..........................................................................44
Truth: Relative or Absolute?....................................................................45
The Ego Is Not Personal..........................................................................46
War Is a Mindset.....................................................................................
48
Do You Want Peace or Drama? ...............................................................49
Beyond Ego: Your True Identity .............................................................50
All Structures are Unstable.......................................................................51
The Ego's Need to Feel Superior..............................................................52
Ego and Fame...........................................................................................52
Chapter Four
RolePlaying:
The Many Faces of the Ego 54
Villain, Victim, Lover...............................................................................55
Letting Go of SelfDefinitions..................................................................
56
Preestablished
Roles................................................................................57
Temporary Roles.......................................................................................58
The Monk with Sweaty Palms..................................................................59
Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness..................................................59
Parenthood: Role or Function? ................................................................60
Conscious Suffering.................................................................................63
Conscious Parenting.................................................................................64
Recognizing Your Child...........................................................................65
Giving Up Roleplaying............................................................................
66
The Pathological Ego................................................................................68
The Background Unhappiness...................................................................70
The Secret of Happiness............................................................................71
Pathological Forms of Ego........................................................................73
Work – with and Without Ego...................................................................75
The Ego in Illness......................................................................................77
The Collective Ego....................................................................................77
Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality.......................................................79
Chapter Five
The PainBody
80
The Birth of Emotion.................................................................................81
Emotions and the Ego................................................................................83
The Duck with a Human Mind..................................................................85
Carrying the Past.......................................................................................85
Individual and Collective...........................................................................87
How the PainBody
Renews Itself.............................................................89
How the Painbody
Feeds on Your Thoughts............................................90
How the painBody
Feeds on Drama.........................................................91
Dense Painbodies......................................................................................
93
Entertainment, the Media, and the PainBody...........................................
94
The Collective Female Painbody..............................................................
95
National and Racial Painbodies................................................................
97
Chapter Six
Breaking Free 99
Presence.....................................................................................................100
The Return of the PainBody.....................................................................
102
The Painbody
in Children.........................................................................103
Unhappiness...............................................................................................105
Breaking Identification with the Painbody...............................................
106
“Triggers”...................................................................................................108
The PainBody
as an Awakener..................................................................110
Breaking Free of the PainBody.................................................................
112
Chapter Seven
Finding Who You Truly Are 113
Who you Think you are..............................................................................114
Abundance..................................................................................................116
Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself.......................................117
Chaos and Higher Order.............................................................................118
Good and Bad.............................................................................................119
Not Minding What Happens.......................................................................120
Is That So?..................................................................................................121
The Ego and the Present Moment .............................................................122
The Paradox of Time...................................................................................124
Eliminating Time.........................................................................................125
The Dreamer and the Dream.......................................................................127
Going Beyond Limitation...........................................................................128
The Joy of Being.........................................................................................130
Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego......................................................130
As Without, So Within................................................................................132
Chapter Eight
The Discovery of Inner Space 135
Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness.......................................137
Falling Below and Rising Above Thought.................................................138
Television...................................................................................................139
Recognizing Inner Space...........................................................................141
Can You Hear the Mountain Stream? .......................................................143
Right Action..............................................................................................144
Perceiving Without Naming......................................................................144
Who Is the Experiencer? ..........................................................................146
The Breath.................................................................................................147
Addictions..................................................................................................149
Inner Body Awareness...............................................................................150
Inner and Outer Space................................................................................151
Noticing the Gaps.......................................................................................153
Lose yourself to Find Yourself....................................................................153
Stillness.......................................................................................................154
Chapter Nine
Your Inner Purpose 155
Awakening..................................................................................................156
A Dialogue on Inner Purpose.....................................................................158
Chapter Ten
A New Earth 167
A Brief History of Your Life......................................................................169
Awakening and the Return Movement.......................................................170
Awakening and the Outgoing Movement...................................................172
Consciousness............................................................................................174
Awakened Doing........................................................................................175
The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing................................................176
Acceptance.................................................................................................177
Enjoyment..................................................................................................177
Enthusiasm.................................................................................................180
The Frequencyholders..............................................................................
183
The New Earth Is No Utopia.....................................................................184
Notes...........................................................................................................186
About the Author........................................................................................189
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