Short excerpt from Eckhart Tolle's talk advising that freedom from challenges should not be expected; instead, bringing awareness/presence to the current moment transforms challenges and ends stress by deepening presence. The practice centers on singling out the present moment.
Without the complaining entity, the resisting entity. Immediately the situation comes into the field of aware presence, and then the challenge becomes transformed. So don't expect freedom from challenges. It's not going to happen. You don't need it. In fact, all that happens through challenges is a deepening of that presence. So the practice is singling out this moment, and then that's the end of stress, too.
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