Why prayers were never meant to be a request | Eckhart Tolle

There is a line in Mark that most people have heard and very few have looked at closely. When you pray, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Eckhart Tolle points out what that instruction is not. It is not asking. Asking for a thing, he suggests, quietly confirms that you do not have it, and that is the state you end up reinforcing. The verse describes something else entirely, which is the sense that the thing is already real. That, he says, is what faith actually means. Not hoping, not wishing, not waiting to see. Already experiencing the reality of it, on the level where anything exists before it exists anywhere else. Plato made a version of the same point. The idea comes first, prior to the physical thing, and the physical thing follows from it. So when something arrives in your mind fully formed, that is not a daydream. That is the blueprint. None of which removes the work. He is explicit that action is necessary, and that vision without it goes nowhere. And then, characteristically, he suggests starting somewhere completely unglamorous. A shopping list. Write down what comes to mind, and when you run out, go still for three or four seconds and simply listen. Something else will surface. It is a small thing to practise on, and that is exactly why it works. Eckhart goes much further into this in the full session. Join Eckhart Tolle Now to watch. 👇

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