powerofnow当下的力量英文版(编辑修改稿)

powerofnow当下的力量英文版(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

ening one night not long after his twentyninth birthday. For the past twenty years, he has reflected on that experience, meditated, and deepened his understanding. In the last decade, he has bee a worldclass teacher, 10 a great soul with a great message, one that Christ taught, one that Buddha taught: a state of enlightenment is attainable, here and now. It is possible to live free of suffering, free of anxiety and neurosis. To do this, we have to e to understand our role as the creator of our pain。 our own mind causes our problems, not other people, not the world out there. It is our own mind, with its nearly constant stream of thoughts, thinking about the past, worrying about the future. We make the great mistake of identifying with our mind, thinking that’s who we are — when, in fact, we are far greater beings. Over and over, Eckhart Tolle shows us how to connect with what he calls our Being: Being is the eternal, everpresent One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don39。 t seek to grasp it with your mind. Don’t try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still, when you are present, fully and intensely in the Now . . . . To regain awareness of Being and to abide in that state of 39。 feelingrealization39。 is enlightenment. The Power of Now is nearly impossible to read straight through — it requires you to put it down periodically and reflect on the words and apply them to your own life experience. It is a plete guide, a plete course, in meditation and realization. It is a book to be revisited again and again — and each time you revisit it, you gain new depth and meaning. It is a book that many people, including me, will want to study for a lifetime. The Power of Now has a growing number of devoted readers. It has already been called a masterpiece。 whatever it is called, however it is described, it is a book with the power 11 to change lives, the power to awaken us to fully realize who we are. Marc Allen Novato, California . August I999 12 FOREWORD BY RUSSELL E. DICARLO Author of Towards a New World View Blanketed by an azure sky, the orangeyellow rays of the setting sun can, at special times, gift us with a moment of such consider able beauty, we find ourselves momentarily stunned, with frozen gaze. The splendor of the moment so dazzles us, our pulsively chattering minds give pause, so as not to mentally whisk us away to a place other than the hereandnow. Bathed in luminescence, a door seems to open to another reality, always present, yet rarely witnessed. Abraham Maslow called these peak experiences, since they represent the high moments of life where we joyfully find ourselves catapulted beyond the confines of the mundane and ordinary. He might just as well have called them peek experiences. During these expansive occasions, we sneak a glimpse of the eternal realm of Being itself. If only for a brief moment in time, we e home to our True Self. Ah, one might sigh, so grand . . . if only I could stay here. But how do I take up permanent residence? During the past ten years, I have mitted myself to finding out. During my search, I have been honored to engage in dialogue with some of the most daring, inspiring and insightful paradigm pioneers of our time: in medicine, science, psychology, business, religion/spirituality, and human potential. This diverse group of individuals is joined by their monly voiced insight that humanity is now taking a quantum leap forward in its evolutionary development. This change is acpanied by a shift in world view — the basic picture we carry with us of the way things are. A world view seeks to answer two fundamental questions, Who are we? and What is the nature of the Universe in which we live? Our answers to these questions dictate the quality and characteristics of our personal 13 relationships with family, friends and employers/employees. When considered on a larger scale, they define societies. It should be of little surprise that the world view which is emerging calls into question many of the things Western society holds to be true: MYTH 1 Humanity has reached the pinnacle of its development. Esalen cofounder Michael Murphy, drawing upon parative religious studies, medical science, anthropology, and sports, has made a provocative case that there are more advanced stages of human development. As a person reaches these advanced levels of spiritual maturity, extraordinary capacities begin to blossom — of love, vitality, personhood, bodily awareness, intuition, perception, munication, and volition. First step: to recognize they exist. Most people do not. Then, methods can be employed with conscious intention. MYTH 2 We are pletely separate from each other, nature, and the Kosmos. This myth of otherthanme has been responsible for wars, the rape of the pla, and all forms and expressions of human injustice. After alt, who in their right mind would harm another if they experienced that person as part of themselves? Stan Grof, in his research of nonordinary states of consciousness, summarizes by saying the psyche and consciousness of each of us is, in the last analysis, mensurate with AllThatIs because there are no absolute boundaries between the body/ego and the totality of existence. Dr. Larry。