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Originally Posted by wolfgang  I see those two as similar to
1 - ego and
2 - oneness.
And then I always wonder about Tolle when he had his awakening - didn't he still have a thinking mind and an ego, or some sense of self as an individual, that was percieving the awakening? Just saying that the thinking mind must still exist even though we may be identifying with the consciousness - both are always present and also kind of dependant on each other. To not have any sense of self (thinking mind) and be in oneness (the consciousness) would be rather ungrounded and spacey even. And we are all good and having plenty of thinking mind stuff with little oneness - and we suffer for that. |
Yes, those are other words for it. Tolle doesn't say one is good and the other is bad; he doesn't advocate killing or banishing the ego (thinking mind); he just describes the blinding effect it has on you when you
identify with the thinking mind -- listening to your thoughts as if they were Who You Are.