About this episode

Eckhart Tolle discusses the individual and collective pain bodies and the importance of taking responsibility for personal suffering to facilitate awakening.

Originally aired July 21, 2022. In this episode Eckhart reflects on the power of the present moment. He then answers a question about the individual and collective pain bodies. He says we all have both and sometimes one is stronger than the other. He believes those with a strong pain body are often more likely to awaken than those who don’t have one. He explains that either way, the great danger is falling into the trap of what he calls “victim identity.” Eckhart says we need to take responsibility for the accumulated suffering inside ourselves and learn to heal from it. Eckhart believes our suffering is transmuted into awareness and that is the beginning of awakening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Oprah

Guest: Eckhart Tolle

Topics covered

• present moment
• pain body
• awakening
• responsibility
• suffering
• victim identity

Keywords

• pain body
• awakening
• suffering
• victim identity
• present moment
• responsibility

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