Eckhart Tolle interprets the parable of the wise and foolish builders as a guide to spiritual practice. Building your life on the rock of inner awareness makes you resilient to life's storms, while building on sand—intellectual belief without practice—leads to collapse.
Doesn't happen very often that I read from the Bible as part of a teaching. This is from the New Testament, and it is a parable that Jesus tells that is very profound and absolutely relevant to the present time. Everyone who listens to these words of mine and does them will be like a man building a house. Who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the wind blew and beat against the house, but it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not do them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, The floods came, and the wind blew and beat against the house, and it collapsed and was completely ruined. So let's understand the deeper meaning of this. Everyone who listens to these words and does them means obviously anybody who listens to the teaching and practices the teaching, and of course Jesus' teaching is Find the kingdom of heaven that is within you, not anywhere else in space or time. Find the transcendent dimension, the kingdom of heaven that is within you, which is a deeper dimension or higher dimension of consciousness.
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