This is a YouTube video titled "Can I Drink Alcohol If I Want to Awaken? | Eckhart Tolle on St. Patrick's Day Celebration" containing a spoken segment from March 17, 2023, where a speaker discusses the concept of presence and awareness in relation to drinking alcohol. The speaker reflects on maintaining awareness even when drinking, emphasizing the state of presence as a normal condition.
Once presence becomes your normal state, you don't need to be concerned anymore about drink. You may or may not have drink occasionally, and even if you were drunk, awareness would then still be there. Once you are established in presence, the awareness would still be there. I know that if I drank a whole bottle of wine, some people do that. Some people drink a whole bottle of wine every day. Not that I could ever do that. If I drank a whole bottle of wine, I would probably collapse. But until I collapse, the awareness would be totally there.
Why alcohol feels like relief, and what it is really giving you | Eckhart Tolle
