Eckhart Tolle explores the Gospel parable of two builders: one constructs on sand and collapses in a storm, the other digs to rock and endures. He reads the house as your sense of self, arguing that a foundation in presence and awareness protects you from life's turbulence, while a shallow identity crumbles.
There's one of my favorite parables in the Gospels that Jesus tells is the parable of a man who is building a house, and he builds a house without digging a foundation. He builds a house on the sand, and then the house is finished, and then suddenly the floods come and the storms come. And the house is swept away in the floods and the storms. And then there's another man who builds a house. First, he digs deep. This is what the parable says. He digs deep until he reaches the rock. And when he reaches the rock, he has a deep foundation for the house. Then he builds the house. Then the floods come and the storms come and the rains come, and the house is not swept away. It stands because it has a deep foundation. Ah. Obviously, in this parable, the house is you.
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