Eckhart Tolle on Spiritual Bypassing: Confronting vs. Avoiding Pain

In this insightful video, Eckhart Tolle addresses the concept of spiritual bypassing – using presence and awareness as a means to avoid dealing with unresolved pain and issues. Eckhart Tolle clarifies that genuine awareness allows one to fully experience emotions without repression, emphasizing that authentic spiritual practices involve confronting and feeling one’s pain rather than bypassing it.

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author. He is a German-born resident of Canada best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Eckhart’s profound, yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.