Eckhart Tolle explains how to create from a place of stillness rather than compulsive doing. He argues that most people act from unconscious thought patterns, but real manifestation happens when you're rooted in the formless essence beneath your identity.
Where we are at as humanity as a whole is a realization that there is an essence that has nothing to do with the form. And only if we are rooted, if some of our attention is in that formless essence, can we do things in this world without creating more havoc and suffering for others and ourselves. If we only go into doing without the rootedness in the eternal dimension, which is stillness, which is here now, always now, inseparable from now. Whatever you do, when you lose yourself in the doing, identified again with form and creating some new problem. So the foundation for all doing, conscious being. So that's the important realization. About what? About manifesting. That's good. But before we talk about manifesting, before we build some new building or structure, get the foundation first. Do you have the foundation? Don't start building a house without any foundation. Manifest this great business empire. This is going to change the world. Yes, but have you laid the foundation? What foundation? Being, Being, the formless, the eternal. No, we haven't thought about that. No, of course you haven't. You can't think about the foundation is being rooted, realizing what that means, what is what being is. Not intellectually. Not by trying to understand. Because as you may have noticed, there's nothing much to understand about being. Being. Can you explain a bit more, please? Being. Stillness. I don't understand stillness. Can you explain stillness? No, because there's nothing in it to explain. You can't look at it under a microscope or dissect it. Aspects of stillness, PhD. So the. The human needs to find its, his or her timeless and formless essence. Essence, identity. That's the foundation. If you haven't that, forget about manifesting or creating. You just create more trouble. That's okay. Then you're at the stage where the universe still tries to like to create trouble. That's okay. And I'm not saying you find that which is so close, closer to you than hands and feet. The stillness, the formless consciousness itself, without which there would be no sense perception and no thought and no feeling. That it's a light in which everything appears. That which the life within the form. And that's always there as your S right here. It knows itself. Here it's not that I know is I. I am it. I and it are one. I know myself. Sounds like two again, but that's because we're using language. I know myself. I know I. The I knows itself. This is the end of all differentiation and complexity. Because you're going back to the timeless, unmanifested source of all life. There's no complexity in that at all. Depth, yes, infinite depth. The vastness as vast or vaster than the outer space, its inner space, the vastness of that inner spaciousness. So what you thought of as I is a tiny, tiny bit. And underneath there is a vastness that is as vast, although not in extension as outer space, which is an externalization of who you are within the vastness of inner space. People don't know how to what extent they have reduced their own reality to this little entity that runs around the surface of the planet for a few years and then evaporates. And of course, that's the form. But what is it that animates that form, the foundation, and is not something that you find, say, okay, I've got it now, and then you forget it again. And then you start getting worried about the next thing you have to do and identify it with every thought that comes again and reacting, and you lost. Not these. The secret is to stay connected with the being while you do. And then whatever you do is conscious doing. Not unconscious creation of form, but conscious creation. And maybe you'll do much less than you would have done before, but it's more powerful, very different kind of doing, conscious doing and conscious manifesting. If that's what happens. Through this form, foundation comes first and remains primary. Being needs to remain in your life. Whether or not you are engaged in a lot of doing or not. Being is primary. If you lose touch with being, you lose yourself in your mind and you lose yourself in doing. And you don't want to do any good for anybody, really. And it may well be that the universal consciousness may use you and you do something that is then in alignment with this new stage that is arising on the planet. And that is conscious creation. Co creation before the universe created unconsciously and now through the human form. There's a possibility that the universe can create consciously in that sense. All those books and teachings are quite exciting that tell you that there is an important relationship between your thoughts and so on and the outer reality. And that thought creates form. Yes, this is true. Thought creates form. And it's exciting that if humans can fully realize that and then fully realize their power of their creative power, which is vast as unlimited, eventually they'll know that as the universal creative power. Because humans and the universe are not separate. You are an aspect of the universe. You are the universe expressing itself as this form. So it's wonderful. Creative power is there, but it's not the wanting power that is the. To answer the question that somebody asked, what about this wanting needing comes from a state of dissatisfaction and insufficiency. Now, Buddha called it desire. And the Buddha, of course, said, become free of desire, and then that's the end of suffering. He looked at humans and he saw that there was this unconscious reaching out continuously for wanting. He called it desire. I call it wanting is a more direct term that you can actually feel. I want, I need, I must have. Now, this is still very much in many humans there, the identification with form that results in continuous wanting. And it keeps a lot of our economic system going. Advertising depends on humans who are identified with form.
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