Ok, So I finally get it.

All of Eckharts teachings, all of the buddhist teachings, all of it.

It's almost here folks and it starts with you!

We are attached to an unhappy self.

That's right.

But it's not us, it's just the unhappy self.

That's what we need to get if we want to advance.

What is this unhappy self?

It's the left hemisphere of the brain.

WHAT?

That's right, the LEFT hemisphere of the brain, our brain, my brain, YOUR brain.

It's insane!

It thinks you are separate when you are not.

It acts much like an analytical computer. It observes things abstractly and then makes up relationship stories about those observations and then it makes up stories in relationship to those stories and what they mean in terms of another abstraction, the past and the future.

This is the part of us that is NOT now, it's purely abstract.

Now that's actually kind of cool that our brains can do that and evolutionarily it of course serves a purpose.

But the problem is that we have been endoctrinated into a world where we are told that this 'thinking' part of ourselves IS ourselves and it's been consciously and unconsciously re-inforced ever since we were kids.

But guess, what, it's NOT ourself! Part of us perhaps but NOT the big picture.

It's the erroneous identifiication with this part of ourselves which is making us all (humanity) act insane!

This is what Eckhart is tellings us. It's what I believe Christ came here to tell us, It's what Buddha came here to tell us.

We are NOT our mind and we are not our thoughts!

Here's a link to something that helped me to finally see this truth:

www.youtube.com/watch

This is the first hand account of a neuro-anatomist who ten years ago had a stroke. She was able to observe the inner workings of the mind as she was having this stroke and this is what she found.

The left hemisphere is the problem solver that is always trying to find and solve problems. And when we are not indentified with the left hemisphere we are calm, at peace and connected with that place that all our previous and current teachers talk about but which can't be named.

And it can't be named because it's outside the the realm of the problem solving abstract thinking left hemisphere!

WOW!

Holy shit!

So, if we stop identifying with this left brain consciousness and remember that we are NOT the left hemisphere we reach that state of 'enlightenment' that all the guru's who have gotten this before us have been telling us about.

It's real, it's now and it's YOU. ALL of YOU!

So what do you have to do to stop identifying with this neurotic constantly thinking and problem solving part of ourselves?

Simply observe it.

That's all you need to do. Just watch it it working. Watch it.

In the beginning you might get the left hemisphere telling you NO, you ARE those thoughts. If that's where you're at then try on the possibility that your not. Then observe it.

Or if you've already made the 'split' of dis-identifying from your thoughts you might just get an even clearer image of yourself as the observer of this unhappy self that can never be satisfied. that's all it is.

Eckhart is a genius and the neuro-anatomist from that link is also amazing. We are so lucky to be living right now...

Blessed be everyone! Blessed be!