Ulrich Leonard Tölle was born in Lünen (February 16, 1948), a small town north of Dortmund in the Ruhr region of Germany. He felt afraid and anxious growing up in post-war Germany, where he played in bombed-out buildings. He later stated that pain "was in the energy field of the country."
At the age of 13, he moved to Spain to live with his father, who did not insist that he attend high school, so Tolle elected to study literature, astronomy, and languages at home. At 15, he was "heavily influenced" by a gift of the five spiritual books by the German mystic Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken.
When he was 19, Tolle moved to England and taught German and Spanish for three years at a London language school.
Spiritual awakening
One night in 1977, at the age of 29, after long periods of depression, Tolle says he experienced an "inner transformation".
“I couldn't live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I' that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! I didn't know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. “
“The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or "beingness," just observing and watching.”
He began to feel an underlying sense of peace in any situation. He stopped studying for his doctorate, and for a period of about two years, he spent much of his time sitting, in a state of deep bliss, on park benches in Russell Square, Central London, watching the world go by. He stayed with friends, in a Buddhist monastery, or slept rough on Hampstead Heath, which is a grassy public space sits astride a sandy ridge, one of the highest points in London. His family thought him "irresponsible, even insane". He changed his first name from Ulrich to Eckhart; by some reports this was in homage to the German philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart.
Somehow it reminds me of this paragraph in Charlie Chaplin's speech:
"As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But As I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection WISDOM OF THE HEART."
Sometims our mind could make us sick. Life itself alone has not much meaning. We create meanings for our own lifes by making connections with what surround us, people, animals, and nature. These connections make our lives meaningful and worthwhile.
Ulrich Leonard Tölle was born in Lünen (February 16, 1948), a small town north of Dortmund in the Ruhr region of Germany. He felt afraid and anxious growing up in post-war Germany, where he played in bombed-out buildings. He later stated that pain "was in the energy field of the country."
At the age of 13, he moved to Spain to live with his father, who did not insist that he attend high school, so Tolle elected to study literature, astronomy, and languages at home. At 15, he was "heavily influenced" by a gift of the five spiritual books by the German mystic Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken.
When he was 19, Tolle moved to England and taught German and Spanish for three years at a London language school.
Spiritual awakening
One night in 1977, at the age of 29, after long periods of depression, Tolle says he experienced an "inner transformation".
“I couldn't live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I' that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! I didn't know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. “
“The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or "beingness," just observing and watching.”
He began to feel an underlying sense of peace in any situation. He stopped studying for his doctorate, and for a period of about two years, he spent much of his time sitting, in a state of deep bliss, on park benches in Russell Square, Central London, watching the world go by. He stayed with friends, in a Buddhist monastery, or slept rough on Hampstead Heath, which is a grassy public space sits astride a sandy ridge, one of the highest points in London. His family thought him "irresponsible, even insane". He changed his first name from Ulrich to Eckhart; by some reports this was in homage to the German philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart.
(credit wikipedia)
前缀里把家和home之间那个space去掉吧，
否则做合辑容易被漏掉～
We all follow that "beingness "
of his, the world will be ....full of philosophers
or... doomed without productivity?
I am curious about his book now.... but must not be that convincing, look around , how many philosophers do I see?!
Somehow it reminds me of this paragraph in Charlie Chaplin's speech:
"As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But As I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection WISDOM OF THE HEART."
Sometims our mind could make us sick. Life itself alone has not much meaning. We create meanings for our own lifes by making connections with what surround us, people, animals, and nature. These connections make our lives meaningful and worthwhile.