Who is looking when you have no labels for your perception or when you're listening to a bird or the sound of the ocean? ....Who is listening? Are you there, a person, with a history, that is listening or is there a deeper I that has emerged and the sensory perception is happening against the background of or in the deep space of that deep I? In which case, you could say that the universe is listening to itself, ...suddenly that listening is an enormous addition to the universe. The universe is awakening to itself, to its own depth. and its own beauty through you. But you can only fulfill that function...if you are not excessively burdened, excessively trapped in your personalized sense of self.
Eckhart Tolle
In the early beginner guided mindfulness videos, that I do at this point mostly for practice, I neglect, intentionally, to ask that very profound question: Who is looking and listening? I just want the individual to simply look and listen without judgement first...I want them to practice doing that before we get to the point where they can start becoming aware of being aware.
This ancient wisdom that Tolle passes on in his video can be life changing and freeing when we are ready to realize that truth. Of course, that notion of getting beyond our personalized version of self is a part of the equation here. The universe can not listen to the sound of the ocean through us if our overactive minds are in the way.
Anyway, it is all good.
EckhTolle (August, 2022) What is the Main Purpose of Your Life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5NFgN-djJQ
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