Eckhart Tolle: The Secret behind the video

See the original Eckhart Tolle video interview discussed here below.

It is no coincidence that this website is called StillnessSpeaks.com, that Eckhart Tolle has a book by the same name and that my friend  gently pointed out the missing element not discussed in the video clip we shared with you.

It is an important message offered to those who have never been in the presence of a great teacher.

Here is what we discussed:

 At some point, it is true that the mind is no longer useful. It can not and will never come to any successful conceptual understanding of awareness. What occurs is a dissolution of ignorance as the mind realizes its own folly. Ultimately,the vastness reveals itself. In this "seeing", the mind becomes subservient to Presence rather than the other way around.  

Once "the mind" sees the Truth regarding awareness, it's struggle ends.

So, what does one do at this delicate point?

This was not clearly discussed in the dialogue with Eckhart Tolle.

It is simply, that Stillness actually speaks. As I have quietly shared for years, the greatest and humblest piece of advice I offer others deeply interested in Self Inquiry, the deepest secret I know, is the ineffable benefit of being in the presence of the teacher. It is Presence itself that teaches.

There is only One Teacher.

Once Eckhart shared that, when counseling others, he simply  "held the space" for them (or some such words). That silent Presence, that sweet Stllness, surrounded and ultimately consumed them, without him needing to speak a word.

So, now you know the genesis of the Eckhart Tolle's book title and this website's namesake..

If you have been in the presence of a great teacher, you may have experienced this phenomena. Call it shakti, "spaceless space", "Presence", Consciousness or God. This is where the real teaching happens.

As Francis Lucille once shared, "Words are what we do to keep the mind busy while the transmission happens in the silence."

I call it "God's silent kiss".

Of course, some will say this is just so much projected fiction of a desperate ego. It is not.

A truly under- heralded American mystic, monk and master, Franklin Merrell-Wolff, shared this insight , which he called The Induction. This is a monster revelation in print by a former Harvard and Stanford educated Professor, who left his career behind him when he concluded that consciousness was primal. This conclusion was so unlike his normal rigorous intellectual approach to Self Inquiiry, that it stands in stark contrast to it.

"...One time I went through this analysis in 1937 and as I finished it, somehow or other, there was induced in me a state that was later identified as waking Samadhi. It seemed like a great pillar of force surrounding [me] with its center apparently coalescing with the spine. And I would have estimated, as it felt to be, about six feet in diameter, and within that, energies were rising and descending. The body began to get stiff. It was difficult to walk over to the podium. I had been at the blackboard and I rested on the podium. Speech became lower in register. Maintaining function objectively was difficult without breaking the state. I say that the whole audience was involved. You could see it in their faces and so on. I described the state to them for a short time. And when I felt there had been enough of it, because this would be rather strong for one that was green to it, I turned it off. Now that was an easy thing to do. There’s just a little valve somewhere in one’s total psyche -- I call it the butterfly valve. You flip it as easy as you would move a finger. It shifts your consciousness to another way and all of this began running down, like an engine with a flywheel on which the power is turned off.
And I had them, the students, give me a report on their experiences. Almost every student had an induction that night. The experiences were of a sort that compared well with those reported in Dr. Bucke’s Cosmic Consciousness. That is what I mean by induction."


I strongly suggest that you click here to read the  entire transcription called The Induction with Franklin Merrell-Wolff .  Be forewarned: It was a difficult read for me in the beginning.

In it's entirety, it directly confronts this most remarkable fact:  Awareness reflects back it's Infinity thru the ineffable to those who deeply desire it. Simple as that.