The Habit of Discontent

 Discontent, blaming, complaining, self pity cannot serve as a good foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. 

Eckhart tolle

Discontent  is a habit.  It is a habit we have been conditioned to feed. I can attest to that by examining my own mind, and upon observing the discontent of others around me. I hear the resounding, "There is something missing; there is something not right!  I must seek, seek, seek, I must do what I can to change it.  Others and Life  must do and be exactly the way I need them to be as to not aggravate this state of discontent in me ! If I am discontented there must be a reason for it...you, it, they, the world is not behaving and is to blame." 

Who is discontented? Habit mind, of course, And what is habit mind?  Eckhart Tolle describes it as, patterns of your mind that are a part of your personality. It is the ego, the conceptual identity.  A yogi may describe it as the samskara layer of self ( with a lower case 's') but it isn't who you are...not at all. 

There exists in every human being the possibility of realizing there is in you the potential of a deeper level of consciousness...

How do we get there, according to Tolle? The present moment, of course. 

All there ever is in this moment, is the present moment...we experience life through it...acknowledgment of the present moment is absolutely vital....when you do the habits of you personality gradually subside. (paraphrased)

[This is]  living in  alignment with the "isness" of now. This means the thinking mind slows down and you acknowledge the now and whatever arises in the now, including... and especially the samll things in the present moment...just steps as you walk, the handling of the object, making a cup of tea,... ackknowledge the aliveness of everything ...

We have lost that connectedness with the present moment, with the "isness" of now because we have identified with a hungry ego that  is constantly trying to feed its discontent.

We are not the ego, it is just something we, as the consciousness that underlies the manifestation of everything we observe, is observing. 

We do not need to be lost in this habit. We can instead find peace in the here and now.  We can recognize who we are at teh deepest level. 

All is well. 

Eckhart Tolle (August 11, 2024) This is why you are discontent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OumC2xYq8Mk&t=3s

Eckhart Tolle (August , 2024) 

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