Reclaiming consciousness from the mind.

In this podcast, Eckhart talks about the being dimension, which he says is where we find our true essence.

However, for many of us, Eckart says our beingness gets lost in thinking.

He explains it is our job to separate the two, thus reclaiming consciousness from the mind.

He believes the separation is the

essence of all spiritual practice. Eckhart describes his own awakening as an example and says

this liberation transformed his life. The being dimension liberates you ultimately from being totally trapped in time, because it is a timeless dimension of consciousness.

And that's an amazing realization when you can observe the flow of time and yet you are rooted in the timeless

I am the timeless I am that sense of beingness that's left when you don't remember

your past and you don't think about future.

There's a sense of pure being as that's left.

That's the essence of your identity.

That sense of your beingness, when you become a person again,

it gets mixed up with memories.

It gets mixed up with memories. It gets mixed up with thoughts.

But the pure essence of beingness is always there.

When it gets mixed up with thoughts,

then you think you are that thing that you remember,

your historical past.

So what do you do in this process?

You take attention away from the stream of thinking,

where it is usually,

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