This is a YouTube video titled "Transforming Form Identity | A Special Meditation with Eckhart Tolle (Binaural Audio)" created on January 5, 2021. The content features a spiritual meditation or talk by Eckhart Tolle focusing on the concept of transcending the personal sense of self (form identity) through presence and surrender to the present moment, highlighting themes of connectedness and deeper consciousness.
It so it's bringing your inner self into alignment with the present moment. A very powerful spiritual practice. Why is it so powerful? Especially when the situation is challenging and you still say it and you mean it. Because everything that sustains the person, the exclusively personal sense of self, in that act of complete surrender to what is the personal sense of self, gives way to a deeper transcendent sense of self, which the Buddhists call no self. A deeper consciousness suddenly shines through. So really it's a kind of denying your form identity doesn't mean you don't have it anymore. But you are no longer trapped exclusively in your form identity. The form identity is strengthened. The more you can be in opposition to what is, the stronger your form identity. Me, the person, the me. The more you are in opposition to what is, the stronger the me becomes you, your form identity. And if you can have enemies, lots of enemies, it loves that gets even stronger. They all against me or us make it. If it's a collective ego. Collective ego loves its enemies, can't actually survive without them. Every collective even needs the others. We're not us. This is us and that's the others. So that's the wonderful thing that the person, the exclusively personal sense of self, becomes weakened, subsides, and something else emerges. When you no longer habitually oppose what is, something emerges that is deeper than the personal sense of self. The transcendent dimension, presence, whatever we want to call it. Some people call it your higher self or you could call it your deeper self. Words doesn't matter. But something emerges that is from beyond the parcel and that is a place of great power and aliveness and possibility. That is where you are connected with a vastness and with everybody else too. So it's when you feel, when that transcendent dimension arises, you feel a greater sense of connectedness. No longer the separation with not only with nature, but also with other humans. It you no longer feel the otherness of the other. There's just yourself in another disguise that really becomes your experience. Whoever you meet, there's yourself in but another disguise. Isn't that a wonderful way of being with other humans? That essentially you can sense not only your connectedness, but you can also sense your inherent oneness with others. It so that is why this presence practice honoring the present moment, welcoming the isness. That's why that's such a powerful practice. Practice it.
