This is a YouTube video titled "Practicing Presence: A Teaching with Eckhart Tolle" containing a spoken teaching focused on mindfulness and presence, emphasizing stepping out of thought to achieve awareness. The content features a single speaker delivering a spiritual or philosophical lesson, likely Eckhart Tolle, given the title and context.
Whenever you are waiting somewhere, be present. Where is your attention? When you are present, your attention is taken away from thinking. And you can initially, if you cannot directly become present, like, step out from thinking into presence. And this is a more advanced thing. Some of you may be able to do it where you could just say presence, and then you're just. There's no thought anymore. And this is an amazing achievement, the greatest achievement, perhaps in your life. If you could step out of thinking when you didn't want to, when you realize it's pointless. I don't need thinking. I can just be aware.
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