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  • Practicing Presence

  • A Guide for the Spiritual Teacher and Health Practitioner
  • By: Eckhart Tolle
  • Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
  • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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What is the most essential trait for an effective healer or teacher? Intelligence, skill, and compassion are important, explains Eckhart Tolle, but without presence, our work in service of others falls short of its potential.

Practicing Presence is a retreat for health practitioners, educators, spiritual teachers—or anyone who shares wisdom—offering more than seven hours of Eckhart’s practical advice for those fostering transformation in others.

Covering a wide range of challenges and concerns specific to the helping professions, Eckhart discusses:

  • Rooting one’s work in stillness to become “a teacher of presence.”
  • Finding the balance between structure and formlessness in your teaching or healing modality.
  • The question of readiness for the would-be teacher or healer.
  • Financial considerations and the inherent egoic risks of charging money for services.

“To be there as nobody special—simply as a field of awareness—that’s the essence of being a successful healer or teacher,” explains Eckhart. For anyone working to support the well-being of others, Practicing Presence brings you an empowering series of pointers and guidelines for lasting transformation and healing.

Please note that due to the environment in which these talks were recorded, the listener may notice some extraneous noise or hiss. This should not significantly affect the overall delivery of Eckhart's teaching.

©2011 Eckhart Tolle (P)2011 Eckhart Teachings

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A good set of teaching talks

A fairly good set of teaching type talks delivered by the author over different occasions. These are arranged by topics. I liked the way they were presented because they were easy to grasp and still relevant after some years since delivery. I also like how he encourages one to keep going back to the basics, being present, reliving suffering, etc. A good addition.

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Great, but 1 problematic trope about keeps arising

I love Eckhart Tolle's works. I have them all. I listen to them daily on my walk. It's changed my life in profound ways. It's saved my life really. The only issues I have with his work is the continual capitalist propaganda tropes about communism. It comes up repeatedly and sadly Eckhart does not seem to understand that the reason communism has not thrived is because the capitalist West keeps meddling trying to destroy it. Look at Cuba? Cuba cares about its citizens and it is under brutal US sanctions in an ongoing attempt to destroy it. If capitalism is so great, why doesn't the US just live and let live? But no, the US wants total hegemony, full spectrum dominance and has attempted to overthrow or successfully overthrown 60 plus country's govts since WW2. Capitalism is a result of our greedy mind and ego and it has killed 20 million plus people globally since ww2. The US and its imperialist capitalist wars and sanctions have killed 100s of 1000s of children in Iraq and elsewhere.

If we are going to point to dysfunctional systems we should compare the aims of communism and the aims of capitalism and look at how end stage capitalism is anti-people and ecocidal.

Also we need to be vegan and stop using sentient animals - who are equally morally important as we are- as resources. There is no mention of our killing 1 to 3 trillion land and aquatic animals each year for trivial reasons of mostly palate pleasure.

Yes our mind, our conceptual thinking, our unconsciousness is responsible for all this violence and hate but we should avoid demonising communism and pretending that its the biggest problem when the elephant in the room is end stage capitalism. It's all mind but let's not go overboard.

One more thing. We should try and get away from the hetero-normative binary presentations of marriage, partnerships and so forth. 🥰🥰🥰 Peace to all

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