No_Mind wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 4:53 pm
Crazy cloud wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 3:17 pm
The thinking mind makes numerous present moments out of dimensionless now. And ET talks mostly about now. So those who hasn't heard him this way, has missed the point completely.
Muddy
Not that I created this thread to criticize him but he has a rather weird approach to spirituality which consists of doing nothing (not even washing dirty plates) and just watch now, now, now, now .. as he puts it "being conscious but not thinking."
While that sounds cool it is not possible to adhere to. Even the Buddha did things .. as long as we have a body we shall do things ..
But ET sat on a park bench for two years, drifted through life .. until he made his first million .. and now charges $1500 per retreat (exclusive of lodging, travel and food) ..
He is worth millions. That is not doing nothing.
He says the exact same thing as skilled Ajahn's do, and that is to watch the mind all the time, and that means doing it NOW since there are the only way to see reality as it is. He has his style, and one can like it or not. He sat on a park bench and let the world pass through his being, which was "being now", and that might seem like nothing, but one can also say that it was ALL ... Or, being
whole. And I haven't understood him saying one should not do anything, but more saying that if one act's out of
being now, one is more creative. If one acts, as usual, one isn't creative but recreate, and that means being reborn in a Buddhist sense, as far as I understand. His fee is not my business, and there is no such thing as
free lunch, even in the Buddhas monastery.
But it's a sure thing that spirituality is big business, and that might be caused by greater suffering in the so-called advanced world of today.