Eckhart Tolle’s Findhorn Retreat Seminar Part 4 of 6: Saying Yes
December 9, 2009 by dr. lam
Findhorn, Scotland
This is a refinement of the idea that we covered in part 2: ”But… ” We confine ourselves oftentimes to negative thinking and therefore we cannot embrace the moment of now. We live our lives in a frustrated state of negation.
An example is his colleague and friend went to visit a woman with an advanced stage of cancer in the hospital. His friend says to the patient, “I do not see a problem.” Upon hearing that, the patient throws away her covering bedsheets to reveal one leg 2 to 3 times the size of the other and responds, “Is this not a problem?” The man responds, “Oh, you see that leg being bigger as a problem?” The patient responds with laughter and realizes how we tend to judge our situation by labeling it as good or bad. We append our own ideas onto a situation.
Saying yes means embracing the positive in what we have in front of us no matter how bad it might appear to our judgmental, labeling brains. We need to say yes in life to life and to everything in life. Shifting our feeling about our situation to one of open, embracive happiness is the first start in our journey toward fulfillment and happiness.
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I like this blog, because not only is it’s saying that we should embrace happiness, but that we also have to accept what comes our way in life, even if it is not what we want. Being non-accepting of whatever it is only adds on more pain to whatever situation we are faced with and creates a barrier between us being able to achieve happiness. Great blog!
Off topic, I think you should add your artist reviews to Wikipedia. Maybe there’s a reason why not? I read them all on the old site and I enjoy your writing style. I’m a book snob (uh oh) and don’t bandy that praise about.
Good blog.
thanks heather. nord, don’t know how to do that. i don’t think wikipedia would accept it. i appreciate your support though!