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Changing the World From Within: An Interview With Eckhart Tolle

Suza Scalora Become a fan 

Life Empowerment Coach, Writer, Author of "The Fairies" and Founder of LOVE 365

In part one of this new interview series, Changing the World From Within, Eckhart Tolle speaks to Suza Scalora about the violence in our world -- and how human beings can lose their sense of humanity and empathy, inflicting suffering on one another.

Suza Scalora: We are constantly hearing about a world that is violent, chaotic and frightening. It seems as though we're inundated with painful, horrific stories by way of the Internet, newspapers and other media outlets. The newest headline, for example, was about another possible beheading by the terrorist group, ISIS. How can we find inner peace with all this insanity around us?

Eckhart Tolle: There are many aspects to this. It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict. These tend to be the more unconscious pockets of the planet, where there is still a considerable degree of collective unconsciousness.

SS: Can you explain what you mean when you say, "unconsciousness?"

ET: It is important to understand that when I call a person "unconscious," I am not referring to somebody who has fainted or blacked out. I am referring to someone who is spiritually unconscious. This is to say that the person is completely in the grip of their ego -- their false sense of self. The ego gives rise to a sense of separateness between oneself and others, or between "us" and "them." A human being in the grip of the ego is identified with mental images or ideas about who they are. The mind creates these mental images, or stories. Then a person's identity, their sense of who they are, is defined through those images or stories. When this happens, there is a tendency for the egoic person to compulsively judge others, thereby making them into enemies. The ego does this to strengthen its ultimately fictitious sense of self. Whatever a person thinks or believes is, of course, conditioned by the past: their upbringing, the culture they live in -- including the collective belief systems of that culture -- their education, family background and so on. A person who is in the grip of the ego is totally identified with the conditioned content of their mind.

Such a person's thinking, as well as behavior, is therefore completely determined by the ego. This is what I mean by the term "unconscious."

SS: It seems that our Western culture is gripped by the ego as much as other parts of the world. Could you explain what it means for a pocket of the world to be more unconscious than another? What does it mean to be collectively unconscious?

ET: In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the "we" rather than the "I." The collective ego may be tribal, religious, nationalistic, or ideological. For example, there may be a religious or political belief structure that people identify with in the collective that makes up a large part of a person's sense of self or identity. It is less these days than it was in the 20th century, when millions of people were in the grip of collective belief systems. For example, when Mao Tse-tung was in power in China, millions of people were totally conditioned by their collective belief system. This was also the case with Nazi Germany and Soviet Communism. When people are so identified with their collective belief system, their ego becomes enormously pronounced. This collective ego begins looking for "enemies" in order to strengthen the sense of separateness on which the ego depends for its survival.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity. The greatest atrocities that have been committed on the planet were perpetrated by the collective ego. For example, if you go back to the Middle Ages, during the Inquisition, it was a time in which torture and persecution was enacted in the name of religion. The Christian message was completely misunderstood and so the religion became an egoic mind structure. People committed atrocities because their entire sense of self was bound up with that belief structure. Even worse things, of course, happened in the 20th century -- as we all know.

SS: How does one become that detached from their humanity? How do people get caught up in this collective mindset?

ET: When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity -- what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well. This causes a sense of separateness, on which the ego thrives.

If you are an Islamic Extremist, for example, you view others as infidels who do not share your belief system and so they are pronounced 'evil.' You can no longer sense the humanity, or Beingness, of those who don't share your belief system. Once you have conceptualized a person, violence becomes almost inevitable. This is because you are not seeing them as a human being anymore. It becomes impossible for you to have any kind of empathy with another individual who does not fit into your collective mind structure.

We often ask, "How is it possible that human beings can inflict such suffering on their fellow humans?" The answer is that they are totally in the grip of the ego. The ego's complete inability to have empathy for others explains how such atrocities can be committed on the planet. Jesus on the cross is reported to have said, "Forgive them for they know not what they do." In contemporary terminology, he probably would have said, "Forgive them, for they are completely unconscious."

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Ray Dalio, Hedge Fund Genius, Says Meditation Is Secret to His Success

One of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world attributes his success to a daily meditation regimen.

"I've been doing it for 44 years, twice a day for 20 minutes," says Ray Dalio, the guru behind Bridgewater Associates, speaking at Tuesday's NYTimes Dealbook Conference. "It's such a great investment ... more than any other factor in my success. It opens up the two sides of the brain, brings a creativity and open-mindedness." He adds, "It allows you to clear your head and bring an equanimity to everything."


His meditation regimen has inspired other Wall Street celebrities, including Daniel Loeb and New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, who said he meditated the night before Tuesday's conference to calm his nerves.

That serenity belied Dalio's comments, in which he predicted future failures and was pessimistic in his view of the world economy:
He would not invest in Bitcoins right now, though he says the idea has "a lot of merit."
Equities will have a 4 percent return over the next decade
France is on the verge of being the next basket case of Europe. "As debt rises faster than income, which is continuing in France, there is going to be a rise in debt service payments, and those are going to have a constricting nature on the economy. ... It puts France in the category of southern European countries."
Though the Fed has done a "masterful job" at providing liquidity in the wake of the financial crisis, Dalio believes that the Fed's emphasis on printing money is "working with consistently decreasing effect."
He doesn't think that the Fed is going to raise interest rates for at least a few years. "Going forward, most investors are not going to be able to produce alpha," Dalio says, referring to the return of an investment in excess of its comparable benchmark index. He predicts that investors will move to a more balanced portfolio.

(Lección No.12) El Futuro es innegable, es nuestro !

Ahora al amanecer, después de un día extraordinario, me preste a ver una Comedia Dramática llamada La Inglesa Romántica de Thomas Wiseman, esta película es de 1.975 donde actua el famoso Michael Caine.

Traigo a colación esta imperdible comedia porque en una parte del dialogo de Michael Caine este dice lo siguiente "el futuro no se puede negar", que Enorme Verdad ! En nuestra misión por alcanzar el "mayor éxito" podemos imaginarnos creando todo lo que realmente deseamos y queramos, en otras palabras el futuro nos permte explayar nuestras metas sin límites, son innegables !

Siguiendo esta línea, el filósofo Hervé Pasqua en su escrito "El tiempo y la eternidad" (1976) nos dice:

"Sólo el presente es; el pasado ya no es; el futuro todavía no es.", en otras palabras lo que estamos pidiendo, buscando y llamando para nuestro nuevo estado, el "mayor éxito", es algo que tenemos que crear, por esto tenemos que estár convencidos de que sí podemos realizarlo.

También Hervé Pasqua nos dice en su texto que: "El tiempo existe porque existe el cambio. Aristóteles lo definía como la medida de lo que cambia"

Estas reflexiones filosoficas nos indican que la misma naturaleza del tiempo es el cambio, y que verdad más cierta ! , recordemos que lo constante o invariable en nuestra vida se nos convierte en mediocridad y nosotros estamos buscando el "mayor éxito", estamos invirtiendo tiempo para cambiar nuestra forma de pensar para poder desarrollar cada vez más una mejor actitud ante toda nuestra circunstancia.

Finalmente resulta agradable saber que el futuro es innegable, aún no existe, es necesario el cambio en el tiempo para crear el futuro, es por esto que tenemos toda libertad de crear nuestro futuro donde alcanzaremos nuestro "mayor éxito".

(Lección No.11) Las 10 claves del éxito por Donald Trump

1. Ser concienzudo

Antes de tomar la decisión de ser grandes, hay que construir buenos cimientos, es decir, hay que analizar bien las cosas, tener en cuenta hasta el más mínimo detalle y no dejar nada al azar. Nunca se debe decir: “bueno quizá funcione, quizá no, pero probemos”, sino minimizar todo el riesgo posible y asegurarse de que las cosas saldrán bien.

2. Generar el “momentum” y mantenerlo en movimiento

No solo hay que tener buenas ideas, sino también, la energía necesaria para hacer que éstas se hagan realidad, aún cuando ello pueda llevar mucho tiempo. Tener paciencia no es suficiente, hay que crear el “momentum” y mantenerlo en movimiento, ello es lo que se necesita para que las cosas sucedan.

3. Mantenerse concentrado

Tan pronto como se pierde la concentración, se pierde también el “momentum”, ambas fuerzas van de la mano y se debe tenerlas trabajando juntas para uno. Hay que mantenerse concentrado el tiempo suficiente como para que las cosas sucedan. En estos tiempos puede ser difícil mantenerse concentrado, pero ello es necesario; una forma de lograrlo es preguntarse siempre: ¿qué debería estar pensando o haciendo yo ahora mismo?, esta simple pregunta puede restaurar la concentración instantáneamente.

4. Mirar la solución, no el problema

No importa lo que uno haga, siempre tendrá problemas de vez en cuando; los problemas son parte de la vida, de los negocios y de todo lo que valga la pena hacer, pero si dejamos que éstos se metan en nuestras vidas, se volverán más grandes que nuestra idea. Sin importar lo mal que se puedan ver las cosas, mantener la concentración en la solución, no en el problema. Una forma de lograr ello es, cada vez que surja un problema, preguntarse: ¿esto es una alerta o una catástrofe?, una catástrofe es un terremoto, un tsunami o una guerra, mientras todo lo demás es sólo una alerta; al responder esta pregunta, se tendrá la perspectiva correcta y el equilibrio de uno será restaurado.

5. Ver una oportunidad, por lo que realmente es: una oportunidad
Ser conciente de todas las oportunidades que se puedan presentar, cada día preguntarse: ¿qué puedo aprender hoy día, que no sepa?, abrirse a nuevas ideas, crear las propias oportunidades. Y en cuento éstas aparezcan, aprovecharlas.

6. Aprender todo lo que se pueda sobre lo que uno hace

Buscar siempre reforzar las bases de lo que uno hace o de aquello a lo que se dedica, buscar aprender cada día algo nuevo sobre ello, buscar dominar y ser un experto en ello.

7. Ser afortunado

Para ser afortunado, uno debe ser apasionado y llegar a amar lo que hace, sólo así llegará a triunfar en ello. Si a uno no le gusta lo que hace, debe buscar otras cosas, o dedicarse a ellas a tiempo parcial hasta que pueda hacerlas a tiempo completo. Uno nunca será exitoso, saludable y feliz si no hace lo que ama. Hacer lo que uno ama y hacerlo con pasión.

8. Verse a uno mismo siendo victorioso

Ello anula la negatividad y le da un giro positivo a los problemas. Ver los problemas como desafíos, hasta llegar al punto en que uno disfrute encontrándolos y resolviéndolos. Saber que no importa lo que uno haga, siempre encontrará problemas y, en esos casos, uno debe tomarlos como desafíos y saberse capaz de manejarlos. Por ejemplo, antes de entrar en una negociación, mantener la mente abierta a lo que pueda pasar, pero tener una actitud victoriosa, sabiendo que de todas maneras habrá un buen acuerdo.

9. Ser inteligente (Astuto)

Saber que uno siempre tiene algo valioso que ofrecer, y que siempre contará con las herramientas necesarias para ello. Buscar siempre la manera de usar y aprovechar las ventajas que uno posee. Saber que uno siempre tendrá lo necesario para triunfar.

10. Por sobre todas cosas, nunca rendirse

La única vez en que uno habrá fracasado será cuando deje de intentar. Sólo los perdedores abandonan, los ganadores siguen adelante, así que haga lo que se haga, nunca rendirse.