Is Eckhart Tolle a taoist master?

>>9444617
No, he's not taoist. That would imply he adheres to some kind of taoist principles of doctrines. Tolle's biggest principle is that of no-thought. At that, he is a master, though.

>>9444623
No-thought is a very integral concept of taoism though. A lot of what Tolle wrote resonates strongly with taoism, which is why I'm asking.

>>9444636
Yes, a lot of what he says strongly resonates with bits and pieces of nearly every spiritual tradition, since he is basically communicating a sort of perennial panacea based on the central idea of no-thought. He is more ecclectic than being a master of one school, though.

>>9444623
Don't know if this was a joke, but I laughed

>>9444650
Save the laugh, it's all your my friend.

>>9444617
Tricksy Hobbitses

>>9444636
i am just starting to learn about taoism. i see the advocacy of non-action in wu wei. what is the principle regarding non-thought?

or is 'thinking' in this case only used as a pejorative, as in over-thinking or wrongful thinking?

how can you be a wise sage without ever having a thought?

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>>9444617
He's not Taoist, he's smug

>>9444830
You are already thinking too much. You're not going to make, young friend.

>>9444935
i wasn't claiming to exemplify taoist philosophy, or that you yourself were not.

i was asking where non-thought is mentioned as a taoist principle

unless taoism means saying what you'd like and refusing the genuinely curious, telling them that they're not going to 'make it,' whatever 'it' is

>>9444617
Eckhart Tolle confuses me. The Power of Now is one of the best books of its sort I've ever read, and has a powerful authenticity to it. But after Tolle got famous, he seems to have gone down the standard guru route, holding pricy 'spiritual' retreats, allowing people to market him like a commodity (or marketing himself, to be less charitable), and so on.

>>9444623
>Tolle's biggest principle is that of no-thought. At that, he is a master, though.
kekerino.

I won't go so far as calling Eckhart Tolle a deliberate fraud, but I do consider him a hack.

By and large, he has succesfully drawn a caricature of Eastern mysticism by engaging in a shallow rhetorical ecleticism, disregarding the context and technical terminology of the source material he claims to be drawing from. What you get is a distilled, tasteless stew consumable for the emotionally agitated masses.

The same thing can be said of pop-mysticism as a whole. If you're interested in studying mysticism, get yourself a reliable translation of first hand sources pertaining to the tradition you're interested in and educate yourself in it's various expressions.

no, just a smug knob.

>>9444830
>>how can you be a wise sage without ever having a thought?
only the rationalists, secular humanists hype thoughts, but once you stick to what you experience, your thoughts disappear, then the body, then consciousness, then to stop being such a normie, you hear the ''four noble truths'' and you get disappointed in ''the five aggregates''

>>9445423
really makes me think

shit

Is Tolle trying to get at non-dualism? Is all Eastern spirituality trying to get at non-dualism?