What Is Meditation?

Realizing the Life That You Are

By: Eckhart Tolle

Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle

The essence of meditation is not something we do; rather, it is simply to be, fully present and aligned with life in the moment. This is the central teaching of Eckhart Tolle’s What Is Meditation? In this audio session, Eckhart helps us transcend our beliefs and ideas about meditation—including the tendency to turn the practice into a means to an end—in order to realize directly our formless nature as being that is primary to any doing.

What Is Meditation? explores:

• What your sitting practice can—and cannot—do for you.
• Acknowledging the “pulling power” of thoughts.
• Engaging with the reality of consciousness itself.
• The arising of “space consciousness”—and how this opens us to joy, creativity, and peace.
• Honoring life by saying yes to what is.

Whether you’ve struggled with meditation or you’re taking an interest in it for the first time, What Is Meditation? gives us a new understanding of why we practice—and an inspirational guide for making life itself our daily meditation.

©2005 Eckhart Tolle (P)2004 Eckhart Teachings, Inc.

Impressive

Well told, well delivered, he is the true master of presence, relevant now more than ever. Thank you Eckhart Tolle.

Content is great, but the audience totally detracts from appreciation of the content. I wanted my own experience.

Liked the content, but not the format with audience laughing, cackling and coughing in the background.

Best for die-hard Tolle fans

I am a die-hard Tolle fan, so I enjoyed this lecture and have listened to it multiple times, but I would not consider it one of his best. It’s taped from a live lecture in which he seemingly did a bit of mugging for the audience, who greatly appreciated it (lots of laughter) but the facial expressions are lost on the Audible audience.

Eckhart Tolle at his funniest!

Park your preconceptions at the door, this guy will knock your soxs off. If you are learning to meditate, if you are interested in humor, if you are not yet a fan of Eckhart Tolle - this is the one to listen to after you listen to the "New Heaven and New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle.

Enjoyable

This is a short talk but it is the essence of the other books. Very enjoyable and uplifting....