This is a YouTube video titled "Awakening to Stillness: Eckhart Tolle's Path to Conscious Living | Guided Meditation" containing a guided meditation or talk focused on the concepts of being versus becoming, stillness, and present moment awareness. The speaker elaborates on meditation as a state of being still and conscious, emphasizing the importance of inner stillness beyond surface-level activity. The content is reflective and instructional, aimed at fostering conscious living.
Meditation is really all about becoming still without going to sleep. Well, let me correct what I just said. It's not so much becoming still, but being still. Becoming would imply that you have to go somewhere or do something. Being is already here and now. And in a sane life, a conscious life, a harmonious life, there needs to be a balance between becoming and being. Becoming is doing things, getting things done, and so on in this world. Dealing with things, creating things, achieving things. And being is about being aware of the present moment, which, after all, is all you ever have. Whatever you achieve through becoming in the future eventually turns into the present moment. So as I speak to you, the meditation, if we even want to call it that, it's perhaps best to forget about the word as I speak. Be aware of the silence or the stillness between the words. Being aware means just notice that it's there. It's very simple. So you notice that in addition to the words, there's another dimension that is easily overlooked. And that's the dimension of stillness, which we could also call space or spaciousness. So when you notice that there are two, so to speak, two dimensions here, dimension of words, which you here and which then become thoughts in your head, and the dimension of no thing, spaciousness. So you just notice, that's all that's required, that there is that dimension also present. So you notice it in between words and even behind the words, so to speak. Now, when you notice it, what happens inside you? What does it mean to notice the stillness? Be aware of the stillness. It means you have become still inside. It means you are conscious, but at that moment, at this moment, you are not thinking, but you are alert, present completely here, but not thinking. So that's the realization of the dimension of depth within you. And without that realization, your entire life is a surface phenomenon. You run around on the surface of being, never satisfied for long, frustrated, almost always feeling there's something important missing in your life. And of course there is. But you can't find it on the surface of your life. The horizontal dimension. Looking here, there, you have to not become still, but realize that that dimension of stillness is already in you.
