If you feel separate from everyone, watch this | Eckhart Tolle

There's been a sense of unease in the background. It's so normal to be basically unhappy that it becomes happiness. We're really happy. So why in those countries do people rarely smile in the street? And if you smile, they think there's something wrong with you. If you say, I don't like myself, the way I look, or how— what I behave, or what I do, or whatever, can you take care? There's a split that has happened, which is like a dysfunction in your mind, and that's the ego arises. It's just— the Buddhists just call it the self, a sense of separate self. That is an image in your mind, and that's the fate of most humans. They have this image that consists of whatever the image identifies with, that is taken on— possessions, attainment, good things and bad things. Uh, Experiences, relationships, memories of things, me. This becomes your life. There's a self there, and it's, it's never at ease for very long. There's always a sense of unease in the background, and that's even when many humans don't even know that, because the sense of unease Is always there. And if something is always there, you don't know it's there. It's like you have a humming noise at home and your, let's say, your fridge is making a noise and this goes on for an hour and suddenly it stops and suddenly, wow, this humming noise was there for a long time. I didn't really know it anymore. So if humans, sometimes they ask people, Once a year they make opinion polls or whatever it is. They ask people in different countries whether they are happy. And then certain countries are number 1 of happiness, 2, 3, 4, 5, up to 100. Well, the ones in 100 and below are probably not very happy at all, but— 100. Quite often I see number one and number two, the countries that I've been to, and the people don't seem happy. But they ask people, are you happy? And they say, yeah, I'm happy, very happy. There's been a sense of unease in the background. It's so normal to be basically unhappy that it becomes happiness. They're really happy. So why in those countries do people rarely smile in the street? And if you smile, they think there's something wrong with you. So people cannot recognize their own states easily, especially if the state has been with you for very long. So they have— The human is the conditioned entity based on identification with basically thoughts and emotions and sense perceptions. It's all mind ultimately, and that is how most humans experience themselves and always Not satisfied for very long, always something not right, something missing in there. That is the state of dukkha described by the Buddha. And now comes the possibility of awakening to a deeper dimension of who you are, who or what you are beyond the human. Beyond the conditioned entity. So here we've reached the point of, in our evening, we've reached a point of transition from the bad news to the good news. So that is the— where is The being to be found, this, the human, the being that gives rise to the human, what is it? Where do you locate it in yourself? These are important questions. I Use various terms sometimes as helpful pointers. One term or two terms I use to describe this is that there's, as I mentioned earlier, there's two of you, the human and the being. The human is the surface self, the surface of life, Here, sense-perceived life. It implies past and future, time. This is where the surface self lives in the dimension of time and goes from past into the future, rarely recognizing the present moment, but very rarely. So the human is in the horizontal dimension, is the surface I, I. I. And then there is the deep I. The deep I is the dimension of consciousness that is not conditioned, transcendent, we could call it. You could call it the spiritual dimension, you could call it— it's where you Are connected to something vast, vastly deeper than your surface I. You're connected to the totality of consciousness and to this, even to the source of all consciousness.