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3 comments:
This is an email I received this week from a fellow classmate. (permission was granted before posting)
"At the end of Ch 2, Tolle discusses being in the Peace of God (this from memory, as I don't have the book with me now), about how our ego-based identity drops away, allowing our true identity or consciousness to emerge. He calls this our Beingness. My contemplation on this has left me trying to unravel the mystery of God, so I thought I would include my question in this email to you:
How is my Beingness unique? Or isn't it? Is it the same as yours, in God? Is there any bearing on the identity I construct here (not culturally, socially, etc. bound) vis-a-vis that essence?
I realize that I am being a little tongue-in-cheek here, as we and everything are the Life that flows through all, but my question of differentiation persists. Please tell me what you think!
This was my response to the above email. Your feedback and insight is greatly welcomed!
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From my understanding, our Beingness is our true nature – one with God and not based on ego. Your Beingness - true self in other words – is very unique as is everyone’s! God gave you talents, gifts, humor, emotions, etc. and they are all different from anyone else’s, just as mine are. This is our uniqueness. When these attributes (forms according to Eckhart) are not feeding our egos, they are our true self, our Beingness. For example: I have the gift of facilitating – I can easily turn this into an ego-centered state and think (and say) “Look at me”, “It’s all about me”; or, I can let go of my ego and turn my talents over to the universe and allow myself to become a “hole in the flute that [God’s] breath moves through” (pg301) which allows my saying “I have the gift of facilitating” to have the same ‘ego impact’ as saying “this soup is cold”. The ultimate state of ego-less being (if you will) is nonattachment to that which makes us unique and simply resting in the knowledge that the ‘things’ that make us unique are not really us they are attributes of us. Eckhart states “ego arises when your sense of Beingness, of “I Am”, which is formless consciousness, gets mixed up with form”. (p54)
Peace of God is when “you realize your true identity [is] consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness had identified with.” (p57) The truth of who you are (and me, and her, and him, and them …) does not rest in what makes you unique, the ultimate truth of who you are is simply I AM. (paraphrased pg57). Peace of God comes when this goes beyond knowledge and becomes an “aha” moment.
I agree. Beingness is unique.
For me, I know this when there is a major life change and I ask my Being if I want to be here or there.
For instance, if there is a job offer in front of us, if we ask our mind, we might make a mistake. But, if we ask our (heart /) Being if we would be happier in the new job, each of us would have a different answer and we would be right.
And, so, we know that we are all unique Beings.
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