THE URGENCY OF TRANSFORMATION - ECKHART TOLLE
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the
world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t
work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable
problems, an individual lifeform– or a species – will either die or become
extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary
leap.
It is believed that the lifeforms on this planet first evolved in the sea.
When there were no animals yet to be found on land, the sea was already
teeming with life.
Then at some point, one of the sea creatures must have started to
venture onto dry land. It would perhaps crawl a few inches at
first,then exhausted by the enormous gravitational pull of the planet,
it would return to the water, where gravity is almost nonexistent and
where it could live with much greater ease.
And then it tried again and again and again, and much later would
adapt to life on land, grow feet instead of fins, develop lungs
instead of gills. It seems unlikely that a species would venture into
such an alien environment and undergo an evolutionary transformation
unless it was compelled to do so by some crisis situation.
There may have been a large sea area that got cut off from the main
ocean where the water gradually receded over thousands of years,
forcing fish to leave their habitatand evolve.
Responding to a radical crisis that threatens our very survival – this is
humanity’s challenge now.
The dysfunction of the egoic human mind, recognized already more than
2,500 years ago by the ancient wisdom teachers and now magnified
through science and technology, is for the first time threatening the
survival of the planet.
Until very recently, the transformation of human consciousness – also
pointed to by the ancient teachers – was no more than a possibility,
realized by a few rare individuals here and there, irrespective of
cultural or religious background.
A widespread flowering of human consciousness did not happen because it was
not yet imperative.
A significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if
they haven’t already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice:
Evolve or die.
A still relatively small but rapidly growing percentage of humanity
is already experiencing within themselves the breakup of the old egoic
mind patterns and the emergence of a new dimension of consciousness.
What is arising now is not a new belief system, a new religion,
spiritual ideology, or mythology.
We are coming to the end not only of mythologies but also of
ideologies and belief systems.
The change goes deeper than the content of your mind, deeper than your
thoughts. In fact, at the heart of the new consciousness is the
transcendence of thought, the
newfound ability of rising above thought, of realizing a dimension
within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought.
You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are,
from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness
you take to be yourself.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I
am. Who am I
then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the
space in which the thought – or the emotion or sense perception – happens
--
Thanks and best regards
J.Suresh
New No.3, Old No.7,
Chamiers road - 1st Lane,
Alwarpet,
Chennai - 600018
Ph: 044 42030947
Mobile: 91 9884071738
------------------------------------
Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are
reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
[email protected]
[email protected]
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[email protected]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
