The Seer

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We have just heerd that Eckhart Tolle has co-written a children’s book which is due to be released in late October. It’s entitled: Milton’s Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When, and The Power of Now. Beautifully illustrated in full color, this 40 page hardcover book is designed to 4-8 year-olds, but wlll appeal to all ages.

Eckhart Tolle has a simple message for everyone — living in the Now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. With co-author Robert Friedman and illustrator Frank Riccio, Tolle now brings his message of the power of Now to children.

Milton’s Secret is the charming story of Milton, a bright, cheerful boy, who learns to overcome his fear of bullies and other scary things that sometimes frighten children. Children follow Milton’s adventures as he learns to stop projecting his past fears into the future — and live simply and happily in the moment.

Milton’s Secret will not only appeal to the millions of readers of Tolle’s other books, but also to any parent who wants to help their young children overcome typical childhood fears. Clearsigh hopes to have copies available on or soon after the release date.

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When I speak of God, I am not speaking of a God that people believe in. To believe in God is an obstacle to knowing God. When we believe in God, we are creating God in our image. It is an illusion, which we create within our minds to help us escape fear and the pain of living in a world of separation.

The God that I am speaking of is of the mystery.

God is One. God is the One in the all.

God is eternal Is-ness. God exists eternally as all that is.

Everything is God. Nothing is God. And beyond everything and nothing, I am and God is.

Infinite silence! Pure consciousness!

The source from which everything arises, and into which everything returns.

I am speaking as a mystic. You cannot know God with the mind, and yet you can experience God from within the mystery.

God is real. God is here now. God is ever present. But we are not. We have gone too far into the mind, with our never ending thoughts, and now we are lost there. We have abandoned the present moment for a remembered past and an imagined future. We have abandoned truth for our opinions, ideas, concepts and beliefs.

If we want to experience God, we will have to come to where God is. We will have to bring ourselves fully present. And as we deepen into Presence, we will begin to encounter the living Presence of God in all things present. God and the present moment are one and the same. The present moment is God revealed.

As we deepen into Presence, we will experience Oneness. At the deepest levels of Presence, God and Heaven on Earth will be revealed.

By Leonard Jacobson, author of: Journey Into Now.

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Seers are those who see what is actually given, rather than what they are told to see. They are simple enough to look. And so they see that they are face to no-face with others, they are capacity for others - this is a deep kind of love. They see that they are still whilst the world moves - this is profoundly relaxing. They see that their face in the mirror gets older, but their no-face doesn’t - their True Self will never die. This is the end of the fear of death. They see that they are - things come and go, but Being IS. This is joy - the joy that has no shadow. And they see that all things come from the One within them. Realizing the power and love of their True Self, they recognize the wisdom of saying Yes! to what it gives them, moment by moment.

By Richard Lang

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Peter’s Pearls is a free daily email service that has been conducted by Clearsight for nearly ten years now. Each day Pete sends out a selected short quote from one of the great spiritual teachers to encourage, clarify and inspire.

For some people, the reading of these quotes will initiate the awakening process. For others, the function of these quotes is to help them recognize that they have already begun to awaken and to intensify and accelerate the process.

Another function of these quotes is to help people recognize the ego within them whenever it tries to regain control and obscure the arising awareness.

If you’re not on our list already, and would like to try Peter’s Pearls, he simplest way to receive this free service, is to send a blank email to >this address. . Also you can read more about this free service Here.

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Asking for directions in the Australian outback is often a chancy business. There was once a grey nomad (retiree towing a caravan) who asked a farmer for directions to Goombungee.

“Take this road here for about two kilometres and turn left at the hollow log. You keep going for about three more kilometres and you’ll come to Riley’s dam. Turn left again. About four kilometres down the track you’ll come to a big sign advertising sheep-dip. Turn left there and keep going.”

“And that’ll get me to Goombungee, will it?”

“No. It’ll get you back here. If I give you all the directions at once it’ll only confuse you.”

BTW. Have you seen our page on Spiritual Direction?

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At day’s end, what honest effort do you look back upon? Did you express one thought that was not in defense? Did you look at your self from another person’s perspective? Did you understand the why behind another person’s actions? Did you laugh at your self? Did you remember you will die? How long till you experience one night utterly alone, where silence absorbs every hope, and boils you down to zero? How long till you remember these questions every day, then end them?

by Shawn Nevins

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It was recntly announced that Eckhart Tolle will be coming to Australia and New Zealand in March next year! It’s planned that he will give an Intensive in Sydney on March 7th. a talk in Melbourne on March 10th, another talk in Brisbane on March 12th, and then a three-day retreat from March 20th at the Hyatt Resort at Coolum on the Sunshine Coast.

When I and many others wrrote to Eckhart’s office in Vancouver asking for Perth to be incluced in the Australian tour, Erin replied:

“Our original Australia/New Zealand itinerary for Eckhart included Perth, Adelaide, Wellington, and Christchurch; however it was Eckhart’s decision to remove these cities from the tour. He knows that there are many people in each of these cities who would love to have him teach there. If only he could be everywhere all the time! It is just physically impossible for him to meet all of the expectations placed upon him. We understand your disappointment and hope you’ll be able to make it to one of his Australian destinations.”

Further details of the Australian tour can be found on Eckhart’s Web site.

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Question: In your latest book (Journey Into Now), you say that there is a fundamental choice available to us. Either we are fully present in the NOW (Heaven) or we are in the mind (Hell). Do ‘we’ have a choice, or is it destiny? Advaita says there is no choice because there is no ‘you’ present.

Leonard Jacobson: You ask, do we have a choice, or it destiny? In the context of your awakening, both are true! It is your ultimate destiny to awaken fully into Oneness and the truth of life. But when that will occur depends upon the choices you make. Your choices can lead you into Oneness, or they can lead you further into separation and illusion.

You might also ask “Who is choosing?” That depends. It can be your ego which chooses, which will keep you in the separation, or it can be some deeper dimension of you, which at some very subtle level, remembers the Oneness and longs for it. A choice made from this longing will lead you home. When Advaita says that there is no choice, because there is no you, my question is “Who is saying that? Who is aware of that.”

Of course, when you are fully present, in any given moment, then your mind is silent. There are no thoughts. All spiritual concepts dissolve. There is no doer and there is no choice. But there is no Advaita. There is no Ramana. There is no past or future. There is no opinion. There is no understanding. There is no agreement, or disagreement. There just is!

Is this the ultimate state of awakening? If so, I would ask, “Who thinks so?” Is this the state you desire? If so, I would ask, “Who desires that?” In true awakening, all spiritual opinions, concepts and understanding dissolve. Ultimately, we are left with that ancient expression, “Neither this nor that!”

And beyond that, nothing!

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We fail to understand God’s purpose because we (are conditioned to) see with physical eyes only and not with our spiritual eyes.

We see what we want for ourselves (a better dream experience), not what God wants for us (to awaken as the dreamer to the dream).

So now (in awakening) we give our attention not only to what is seen, but to what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal

St Paul, sharing the gnosis (the knowing) with the followiers of Jesus’ teaching at Corinth, Greece. (2 Cor. 4:18).

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After our last Satsang gathering at Gurukula, our friend, John Walker, returned home, went to bed and finally drifted off to sleep listening to a CD talk by Eckhart Tolle. At 2.30am, John was woken to a major shock. A car being pursued by police crashed through a wall into the room where John was sleeping. The flying bricks stripped the bedding off him and grazed his back, bum and legs. His headset he had been wearing ended up at the foot of the bed on the floor under the rubble! It made a news story on all our TV channels. We’re so thankful John’s form was preserved.

John’s narrow escape reminded us of some apt words by Adyashanti when he said:

“This that you are is here to experience anything and everything that comes down the pike (highway). It’s the only way to experience the greatest love, the greatest freedom, in a way that’s permanent ­- not just a vacation. It’s a permanent abidance in the truth of your being.”