Transcending Suffering: A Meditation with Eckhart Tolle

In the Pali scriptures, the word is anatta, not self or no self. It's the recognition that all the things that had given you your sense of self are ultimately illusory and are not yourself. I have a little bit of a cough, but that's okay. So your sense of self is no longer in all those things, although they still exist for you on the level of the person. And that's a big relief because you're no longer looking for yourself where you can't be found. You are no longer looking to strengthen yourself by strengthening an illusory construct with the inevitable frustration and suffering that it leads to and with the inevitable misinterpretation of other people, of yourself, of situations. Because if you live through an illusory construct of your mind, whatever you perceive, whatever situation you are in, your relationships with people will reflect that illusion. And that illusory construct, the egoic self, the mind made self, creates an enormous amount of unhappiness in your life, or as the Buddha called it, suffering, dukkha, which can also be translated as misery or unsatisfactoriness. It. And in that illusory state, when you derive your sense of self from this illusory construct, you don't realize that most of your suffering is created by your state of consciousness. And you think the cause of your suffering and suffering is a generic term. It's any form of unhappiness, upset, discontent, frustration, anger, despondency, irritation. You think that all your unhappiness, in whatever form, is caused by factors outside of you, other people, situations, events, things that happen or fail to happen when they should be happening, according to your mind, things that people do or fail to do according to your mind, situations or places that are found unsatisfying when they should satisfy you, according to your mind. So you can observe this at work, even when slight upsets arise in your life, where do they come from? Or bigger upsets. And then you can, if you're aware enough in that moment, and I recommend that you use any form of upset as a signal that more awareness is required, that you need to become present. And then you discover that in most cases the upset is caused by your mind. It.