A popular book since its publication at the end of 2000, John Parker’s fascinating interviews cover a wide variety of teachers, from Advaita to Native American, from Hindu to Christian, none of whom, as he says in the introduction, have yet transcended the ’emerging’ phase!
The fourteen teachers include Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, John Sherman, Mira, … and Pamela.
Being yourself: The stillness of pure consciousness
The following is a partial excerpt of an interview with Eckhart Tolle from a book called Dialogues With Emerging Spiritual Teachers by John W. Parker.
I also started reading on Buddhism and immediately understood the essence of Buddhism. I saw the simplicity of the original teaching of the Buddha compared to the complexity of subsequent additions, philosophy, all the baggage that over the centuries accumulated around Buddhism, and saw the essence of the original teaching. I have a great love for the teaching of the Buddha, a teaching of such power and sublime simplicity. I even spent time in Buddhist monasteries. During my time in England there were already several Buddhist monasteries.
I met and listened to some teachers that helped me understand my own state. In the beginning there was a Buddhist monk, Achan Sumedo, abbot of two or three monasteries in England. He’s a Western-born Buddhist. — Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle on Being Yourself
Come face to face with Eckhart Tolle, for a transformational meeting with this respected teacher and influential author. In clear language, Eckhart explains the process of entering the “miraculous” state of presence that is always available to us. We are lost, he says, in the maze of our own compulsive thoughts.
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