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Eckhart Tolle on “Can I Be The Space For This?”

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 by Maryam Webster

Eckhart Tolle in the Land Of The Ha’oles

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 by Maryam Webster

 …Or, "Pain-bodies On Parade"…

Here is the first of several report posts on Eckhart Tolle’s teachings in San Rafael, CA. This first one concerns environment.

I am not a fully enlightened being. Let me preface the below by saying this, and that I regard what appear to be other people as parts of myself and myself as part of them. Everything around me is a constant and consistent teaching in surrendering to life as it arises, letting forms come and go as they will and being in Bliss with what is. Last week was a powerful, deep teaching in this, and a poignant part of it was my environment. 

That said…

Part of my spiritual teachings were in a genre known as Feri, taught by a man who considered himself a Hawai’ian huna priest. (here’s a link to a great mind-map of the Huna way) Hawai’ian locals, he taught, call while people "ha’ole" meaning "without the breath of God" due to the caucasian lack of skin color…at least as the indigenous Hawai’ians saw it.  Imagine, a whole race of ghost-like people come to your bright and sunny shores where all around you have a nice healthy tan - you’d think they didn’t have any God inside them too. And when the visitors acted like untutored children and desecrated sacred sites without thought or apology, well, call that corroborating evidence.

In the Hawai’i of today as in the California spiritual community, the word ha’ole has come to mean "those who don’t get it and are acting like imbeciles". It was unfortunate that more than a fair sprinkling of these met Eckhart Tolle in San Rafael this past week.

Tolle’s teachings were as always, inspiring, as always, relevant to a wide bandwidth of people. But since the Oprahfication of his message, the tourist element has been brought into play. Mind you, I’m as big a fan of Oprah bringing A New Earth to the world as anyone else. I think it’s a beautiful undertaking and may well be the best thing she has done yet to further the cause of peace and enlightenment in the world. Brava Oprah, for what you’re doing. You go, girl.

However, association with "Oprah, the brand" is known to produce a predictable array of side-effects. Mass runs on products Oprah endorses. Sudden over-subscription to the trainings and workshops of those she favors. Instant celebrity status conferred upon those fortunate enough to be interviewed by her. These are all to be expected. …

Eckhart Tolle in San Francisco - Day 1 Update

Saturday, March 8th, 2008 by Maryam Webster

In a few minutes, I’ll be heading over to the Marin Center for the second day of Eckhart Tolle’s teachings on Life Purpose. Last night is still being processed, one more day or two and I should have a synthesis t o report. I can say that Tolle and The Dalai Lama have something in common: a puckish sense of good humor about humanity’s failings and delight in the world around them. I also noticed that Eckhart used a lot of sleight of mouth for the NLP’ers out there, with sentances to the effect of  "…this stream of consciousness is arising in you…NOW…" Excellent pacing and leading. More later. Words are truly ineffectual to convey the real meaning of the teachings which is found, as Tolle himself suggests, in the spaces between the words. In Stillness…

Eckhart Tolle in San Francisco - Preliminary Report

Friday, March 7th, 2008 by Maryam Webster

Eckhart Tolle with calico mittieHey there fellow Stillness fans. It’s not like Words can really capture an occasion like hearing Eckhart Tolle lecture, but I’ll try. I’m leaving in a few minutes for San Rafael, where we’ll hear Eckhart tonight from 8 - 9:30pm and Saturday from 1:30 - 4:30pm at the Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium. If you’re there and find me, we’ll meditate together.

At right is a picture I found on Tolle’s website of him looking even more puckish than usual with a calico mittie. He often speaks of animals, cats in particular, as being more aware than we are. He once said the most accomplished Zen master he ever knew was a cat, so it’s not suprising to see him with one. What mutual delight on the faces of these two friends. :-)

Here’s what the event says about itself: "…Now you are invited to experience this visionary teacher in a live, face-to-face encounter. Here is a rare opportunity to be drawn into the "spaciousness that words can only point to" by the vibrant, conscious presence of Eckhart Tolle himself."

I’ve heard about the effects of an evolved spiritual teacher conferring shaktipat, spontaneous awakening and initiation, by merely sitting in the teacher’s presence. Where I have seen most reference to this is in what is said about the spiritual teacher Amma - the Hugging Saint as she is called. I have heard this said of Tolle as we. Without anticipation, am looking forward to feeling what a room full of people being in presence together will feel like.

It’s extraordinary how I’ve come to this feeling of not looking forward, yet taking all the actions I need to take to be there. An immense clearing occured this week that lasted four days. Before the clearing the mind was busybusybusy with monkey brained chatterings. As I reach today and am marvelling at how resilient the pain-body can be, yet also how easy to take out, once you know what it’s doing, a flushing of inattentiveness seems to have happened.

Presence is one of many states that I move in and out of as I continue coming to awareness of my own pain-body. To be constantly in that state must be truly miraculous. I will get back to you later on being in the presence of one who is there most of the time is like. 

Ain’t it a Pip?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 by Maryam Webster

I just wrote the below to the folks taking the 12 Keys to Bliss class with us over at ECI and thought I’d share, as it really applies to all of us. I get the daily motivational niblet from TUT.COM. The messages come, "From the Universe" and they always touch or tickle me. This one though, my mom would have called a real pip. To wit:

Every once in a while, with gaps in time that stretch for eons, someone like you comes along who instinctively trusts their inner senses more than their physical senses, the unseen more than the seen, and whose life-insights are so piercing that they unwittingly blow the entire model of spiritual evolution to smithereens.

"Gabriel, did you register Maryam Webster’s epiphany yesterday? Raise expectations on all human beings another 72 gigatrons, and tell not a soul."

How do you do that?
The Universe

It’s worthwhile to note that this message is sent out to everyone who signs up. This is one of the more fruitilicious ones, but it does have a point. How can we all:

  • trust our inner senses
  • trust the unseen
  • stay present
  • have piercing life insights and epiphanies
  • do what we do for the highest good of all

Post a commment if you like. The folks in the 12 Keys course have been having a busy little dialogue about this in the ecampus, but I can’t share that with you here. You can however share your thoughts for others to read if you like. Just hit the button below and let us know: How would you feel if this message came to YOU, with your name on it, telling you that these things had already happened, were a foregone conclusion. What might the difference in your life be?

In my thinking for one, self-esteem would not be an issue. Neither would courage, bravery, personal strength or any of the other traits that people seem to have trouble with. This is a small subset of all the possible personal betterment practices. As a spiritual practice, this list above pretty much covers what a shaman, priest or priestess does. As spiritual teachers in our own lives, who are we when we have these skills native in us, and intact and functioning since birth?

In a future week, we’ll learn how to reinvent your early life to give you what you would like to have from birth onwards as skills, tools or other resources. And we’ll experience how our life changes in moments, and the different timeline that arises. Generally speaking, a much more copacetic timeline. Interested?

Your feelings on this would be lovely to read.

Warmly,
Maryam

Beauty Tips from Audrey Hepburn (and one from me)

Friday, January 18th, 2008 by Maryam Webster

Jasmine White, L.Ac.Forwarded from powerful beauty, and ace girlfriend, Jasmine White (right) is this "friendly chain mail".  Send it to all the Beautiful Women in your life!  


Did you know that it’s Beautiful Women Month? Well it is, and that means you! I’m supposed to send this to FIVE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, and if you’re a woman reading this, YOU are one of them!!!  

Below is a wonderful poem Audrey Hepburn wrote  when asked to share her "beauty tips." It was read at her funeral years later:

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness…

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. (or your mother, sibling or lover  ~ Maryam)

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone…

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;

Never throw out anyone.

And one Maryam-tip:
For a smooth and wrinkle-free face, live in the Now where there are truly no problems to cause brow-furrowing.

Remember,
if you ever need a helping hand,
you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands;
one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.

If you share this with another woman,
something good will happen.
You will boost another woman’s self esteem,
and she will know that you care about her.

It’s
BEAUTIFUL Women Month
TAG
YOU’RE IT!

Bliss Key: Freedom From Compaction

Monday, January 7th, 2008 by Maryam Webster

One of the most important of the Bliss Keys that I’ve discovered is:

E  -  X  -  P  -  A  -  N  -  D

compaction weighs you down and feels like depression in the body...The German metaphysicist Eckhart Tolle speaks about our collected personal negative experiences - fear, anger, pain, sadness, guilt and the like, operating as a form of consciousness inside of us. He calls this collection of experience the "painbody". As humans, we are somewhat addicted to paying attention to negativity. When we constantly attend to our painbody, it prevents us from being fully Present. Added to our own personal negativity, we also have that of our immediate family lines and also, of the culture we we’re born into and the one in which we currently live. Sum all that up and the energy the painbody consumes can be a hellishly powerful force.

The painbody feeds upon negative input, and its existence is the reason we can sometimes experience very miserable lives.

Those joining me in the 12 Keys to Bliss Program will learn more about the Painbody, how it operates and how to move past it. You can still join us! Click here for more info  (opens in a new window)

Tolle and other spiritual authors point to the quality of having a fairly large painbody (most Westerners do) as being "compacted" or "compressed". This always makes me think of those trash compacter machines back in the 1980’s. Remember those? They took a whole houseful of trash and compacted it into a cube less than a quarter of its original size.

Imagine being only a quarter of YOUR original size. I’m barely 5"5" in stocking feet. If I were a quarter of my size, I would be less than a foot and a half tall (or, from 162.5cm to 43 cm for the decimal crowd).

Are there days when you FEEL as small as this? As if the weight of the world were bowing you down to the ground? This is the PHYSICAL SENSATION of Compaction - give thanks for this feeling! It is a powerful tool that will lead you towards Bliss.

How? By showing you the opposite of what you really want. Simply flip this state on its back and take a look at the flipside. This is what you DO want. Straighten your shoulders, elongate your upper spine and allow it to pull your entire body upward as you think about what you do want. Engage your abdominal muscles until you feel how strong you really are.

Think about it…

 

How do I find Bliss?

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 by Maryam Webster
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(Spoiler: Kitty pics included! Scroll for regal cuteness…)

Happy New Year! And welcome to a year where Bliss is going to be the word on everyone’s lips, and in everyone’s lives. Huzzah, and welcome to the new, Blissful You!  If you’re wondering how the heck you’re going to get there, keep reading, (as an added bonus, cute kitty reference is part of the story)…

The celebrated mythologist and cultural anthropologist Joseph Campbell tells us to "follow your Bliss and everything else will come out right in the end". We get told that a lot, and many of us believe that one day, somehow we can get there…but we have no idea where to begin. I just received a question in email that echoes the questions of many others lately:

"How do I find Bliss? Where do I look for it?"

The brief answer is "in the present moment" - and I’m not just being cute. Let me illustrate. Tuff, a character in the movie "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio" was complaining about her car breaking down, the hot day and boredom she felt at sitting waiting for the car to be fixed. Her mother and main character, Evelyn, said something that exemplifies the essence of there being "no problem in the Now". With joy on her face and laughter in her voice she said: 

"Right now I’m sitting in the shade having a conversation with my wonderful, feisty daughter. I intend to enjoy this moment fully. And for your own wellbeing, I suggest you do the same."

  Such sage advice. The next time you feel like Tuff and are wallowing in how bad things are, take a time out and become aware of the delight awaiting you in the moment.

This is one of the fundamentals of the Everyday Bliss Process. Becoming alive, invigorated and attuned only to the wonder of life works miracles towards making things flow evenly and unceasingly in a positive vein. That goes for your attention to the present moment - the Now - as well.

When you wake up to placing your attention in the present, unless your survival is threatened in that very moment, there is really nothing wrong.

The Princess AnoushkaIt took me a long time to write this because I was enjoying so much being fully in the moment with my kitty, Anoushka, seen in pensive, loving and sleeping modes at right, this past Yule. Late at night when I am enjoying writing the best, Anoushka will weasel her way between my thigh and the easy chair in which I sit, fitting herself in with many trills and purrs, pushings of paws, and always, an appreciative lick.

In my house, we have a saying: "a lick gets a skritch, e-e-e-very time!". And it is such a pleasure to give pleasure to my darling Noush by
skritching, stroking and appreciating her in a soft and gentle manner, that many minutes passed by, interrupting the flow of this message, but so fully in the present that thought ceases and delight ensues.

This is a kitty that for the most part, has felt that murder is imminent and threat must be monitored on all frequencies, 36 hours a day. The nervous type from the get-go due to a rough kittenhood on the streets before being captured by the local vet and adopted out to us. Only through many, many moments such as the above, has Anoushka learned that she can relax her guard, that Love is Everywhere, and been able to be at peace in the moment herself.

This darling kitty has taught me more about Bliss than anything else today. Anoushka, here’s to you, good love!

And more Bliss for us all, in the moment…all the time…now.

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The Breathing Peace Process - what happened???

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 by Maryam Webster

I bid you Peace....We had a bang-up call a week or so ago with the Everyday Bliss R&D Party folks. Aren’t a member of the party yet? join at left - you’ll get a hot gift to ring in your New Year!

In this call I shared a process I developed that you WON’T find in my Everyday Bliss For Busy Women book (out in May 2008 from New Harbinger Publishers), but you WILL learn, among many others, in my own lightspeed process, the:

12 Keys To Blissful Living Program


((( I’ll be sharing this program to learn to live in complete Presence  — where NOTHING is truly a problem —  in February 2008. Go ahead, click on the name above, and catch the EARLYBIRD before it goes away on Christmas Eve! )))

Though we only had time to go through HALF the process, people have already written in claiming marvellous results! Gremlins gone, habits busted, relationship weirdness disappearing and crabby parents turned into lambs.

Such heartening news to hear, particularly in the holiday season!

So as promised, after giving you a good space of time to practice the process, here is a place to let us know what happened when you practiced the "Breathing Peace" process.

Simply click here and scroll to the bottom to share your experience of this powerful changework modality.

Weren’t on the call and want a replay? No problem! Get it here:

http://www.maryamwebster.com/holidayblissparty/

Happy Holidays!!!

Warmest Love & Blessings from Maryam
and the whole Everyday Bliss team


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