FlorAlive® & The Teachings of Eckhart Tolle

by BRENT DAVIS on JULY 16, 2010

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Eckhart Tolle is extraordinarily adept at integrating and clarifying salient teachings from many of the world’s great spiritual traditions. He created terminology that describes age-old concepts that are critically important but are often glossed over.

For example, in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition I have heard teachers refer to unproductive characteristics of our personality as “the lesser self,” that is, thoughts and actions that arise from our self-cherishing mind. By changing the terminology from “lesser self” to “pain body”, Tolle found a graphic description that finally illuminated the source of most human suffering so that it can be seen much more easily, and therefore transformed. Another example is the concept of “emptiness” or “nothingness” from Zen and other Eastern teachings.  In many instances, the substitution of Tolle’s “spaciousness” is a much more intelligible term. Almost everyone has a personal understanding of what it means to experience more “space” in a situation that has compressed itself to produce density, tension, and nervousness.

Every time I have seen Eckhart Tolle speak, he is never far from a beautiful display of flowers, and he often alludes to lovely characteristics of flowers during his discourses. From his presentation titled: The Flowering of Human Consciousness, he said, quote“Any flower could be your teacher, and you wouldn’t need any other teacher if you can truly be with the flower and be alert…”“I recommend you do this, look at a flower. The first thing you notice is how still it is… So when you look at a flower, an amazing thing happens.  …You see the beauty – there is the color and there is the light shining through the petals, it is very beautiful – but it is more than that. …You notice that there is an essence beyond that which you see. It lives in a state of deep stillness. And when you notice that…it means at that moment, that deep stillness is there in you… a state of great sacredness, aliveness, and beauty – but deeper than the beauty of form. It is the formless that arises in you… That is what I mean when I use the word, “spaciousness.”

”When I am guided to make a new FlorAlive® essence, I search for specially imbued flowers in pristine and remote wild areas that are characterized by enormous stillness, and by evolutionary forces that are emanating from a particular place on the earth. The flowers in these regions collect and concentrate remarkable energies that can be very liberating to us. They are the embodiment of “spaciousness.”So I hope many of the students of Mr. Tolle encounter the FlorAlive® flower essences, for when we consume drops of them placed in our drinking water, we literally increase our own “spaciousness.”