This is a YouTube video titled "Being In Nature With Eckhart Tolle" containing a spoken reflection from January 7, 2015, where Eckhart Tolle discusses the importance of stillness, awareness, and experiencing nature as part of spiritual practice, referencing the Buddha's teachings on meditation in nature.
Sam when the Buddha was teaching 2500 years ago, he told people to seek out a quiet place in the forest and meditate there. That was an essential part of his teaching. So nature was an essential part of his teaching. I just like to share with you how I experience nature and the state of consciousness that's behind it. And we start right now with something that I don't know whether the microphones can pick it up, but we listen to the stillness that is here now. Whether a microphone can pick up stillness, I don't know. We will see. For me, the stillness is not 100%, because at the moment I have a little bit of ringing in my right ear, but the stillness is still picked up with my left ear. And it's very deep. And in order to listen to the stillness in nature, a certain alertness is required. So your senses have to go acute listening. And you can combine that with looking around. So you are listening and you are watching what's around you. The secret of being fully in nature and experiencing the sacredness of nature is to refrain as much as possible from thinking while you are in nature and just be the awareness behind all the sense perceptions, the alert presence. Sa.
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