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RA THE POWER OF THE POWER OF ESSENTIAL TEAGHINGS, MEDITATIONS, AND EXERCISES FOR LIVING THE LIBERATED LIFE Eckhart Tolle PRACTICING THe POWER OF NOW PRACTICING THE POWER OF NGW ESSENTIAL TEACHINGS, MEDITATIONS, AND EXERCISES FROM THE POWER OF WOW Eckhart Tolle HODDER A Hee book, bia i uss and New Zein in 201 hy fladderLeachine Avra Pay Vitel {A member ofthe Hilder Hedine Group! evel 22201 Kan. Suet, Sydney NSW 2000 weruhbacimas iin hy sangeet wis Nes odd Leo 1S Coprighe 21 Fes Tle ‘Mit othe wei ote book excerpted For The sone of rs INF Hela Tle "This boul ineaprig. 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A new state of consciousness is emerging, We have suffered cnough! Even at this moment it is emerging froin within you, as you hold this book in your hands and zcad chest lines that speak of the pos- sibility of living che liberated lifs, in which you no Jonger inflic suffering on yourself ar others. Many of the readers who weote co me expressed a wish to have the practical aspects of the ceachings contained in The Ramer of Now presented in a more readily aeces- sible format. co be used in eis daly proviiee. ‘Whar sequest became: the impetus for this book, In addition to the exercises and practices, howeves, this bole also contains some shorter passages frown the original svork hac can serve asa reminder of some of the ideas and concepts and can become a primer for incorporating those concepts daily. ‘Many of chose pascages are particularly suitable for meditative reading, When you practice medirative reading, you do noc vead primarily 0 gather new infor- mation, but co emter a differen stute of consciousness as you read. ‘This is why you can re-read the same pas- sage many times, and every time it feels feesh and now. Only words thac were written or spoken in a state of presen ave this srunsformative power, which is the power to awaken presence in the readst. These pastages are hese read slowly. Many times you may want ro pause and allow for a moment of quiet ceflection, or stillness. At ather rimes, you may just open the book at random and read a few lines. Tor those readets who fele daunted or overwhelmed by The Pover of Now this book can alsa serve a an introduction, — Eekhar Tofle July 9, 2001 ae can cen aon pet en lense rr te dete PRACTICING “IIE FOWER er NOW BEING JS NOT ONLY BEYOND BUT ALSO DEEP WITHIN every fortn as its inncemost in he and indescructible essence, ‘Vhis means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature, But dont scck to grasp it veith your mind. Donk try to understand it You can know it only when che mind is still, When you are preven, when your atten- tion is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be Pelt, bur it can never be andesstood menrally 1 regains savaeeness of Being and to abide in char state of *feeling-realizarion? is eulighteumment The word enlighiewment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and che ego likes to keep it thar way, buc it is simply your natural state of flr oneness with Being, Iris state af conneseedacss vith something immeasurable and indescructible something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yetis much greater than you, Ieis finding your true nature beyond name and form. ‘The inability to feel this connoceedness gives rise ca the illusion oF separation, from yourself and from the ‘world around you. You then perosive pourseli, consciously fr unconsciously, as an isolated fragment, Fear arses, and contlirs within and without become the nom. 6 The greatest obscacle to experiencing the reality of your sannectedness is idencification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not to be able Co stop thinking is a dreadfol afficrion, hur we don't realize this because almost everybody is suifixing from is, so it is considered uoruial, This inessant mented noise prevents you fiom finding that scalm of inner scillness that is inseparable from Being. [t also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering. Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. Je comes berween you and yourself beewsen you and your fellow ‘man and woman, becwcen you and navure, becween you sand Goal Tris chs sereen of thought that eretes the illi- sion of separateness, the ilusion that there is you and a totally sepuruce “other” You then forget the essential Fat that, underacach che level af physical appearances and separate forms, you are one with all that is The mind is 2 superb instrument if uscd rightly. Used wrongly, however, ic becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is nar so much char you use your mind wrongly ~- you usually dont use it at all. It Uses yout This is the disease, You believe char you are your mind. This is che delusion. The instrument has taken you over. a